Facts & Firsts

Founded

1898; we are the second-oldest business school in the world.

Accreditation

Since 1916, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has been continuously accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Dean

Sunil Kumar is dean and professor of operations management. Kumar's research includes performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. In particular, he studies systems affected by stochastic variability via mathematical models. He also studies application of optimization methods and control theory to managerial problems.

Kumar joined the Chicago Booth faculty on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology. At Stanford, he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school's MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior. 

Student Body

Faculty

In 2010, Chicago Booth faculty numbered 187; 125 are tenure-track faculty.

Alumni

Chicago Booth is proud to claim 43,000 alumni who have succeeded in every field and industry in every corner of the globe.

How Others See Us

Business leaders, educators, students, and alumni rate Chicago Booth among the finest business schools in the world. Chicago Booth consistently ranks among the top business schools in surveys of MBA programs.

• Full-Time MBA Program
  #2 The Economist, 2011
  #3 Forbes biennial rankings, 2011
  #5 (tie) U.S. New & World Report, 2011
  #12 Financial Times (global), 2011
  #1 BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2010
  #1 The Economist, 2010
  #4 Forbes biennial rankings, 2009
  #1 BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2008

• Executive MBA Programs
  #1 BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2011
  #2 U.S. News & World Report, 2011
  #5 Financial Times, 2011
  #5 Financial Times, 2010
  #16 Wall Street Journal, 2010
  #2 BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2009

• Part-Time MBA Programs
  #17 nationally, #2 in the Midwest, BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2011
  #1 (tie) U.S. News & World Report, 2011
  #12 nationally, #4 in the Midwest, BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2009

• Nondegree Executive Education
  #13 in open enrollment programs and 16 in custom programs, BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2011
  #18 Financial Times, 2010
  #15in open enrollment programs, BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2009

Graduate Employment

Download our employment report for employment statistics for our full-time MBA students, including international MBA and joint degree students.

Research and Learning Centers

Chicago Booth promotes and disseminates research through numerous centers and institutes:

• Accounting Research Center
• Applied Theory Initiative
• Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
• Center for Decision Research
• Center for Population Economics
• Center for Research in Security Prices
• Chicago Energy Initiative
• George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
• Initiative on Global Markets
• Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
• Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
• James M. Kilts Center for Marketing

Chicago Booth Firsts

For more than a century, Chicago Booth has been known as an innovator in business education and a creator of ideas.

• First business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty (George Stigler, 1982)
• First business school to have six Nobel Prize winners: Stigler; Merton Miller, 1990; Ronald Coase, 1991; Gary Becker, 1992; Robert Fogel, 1993; and Myron Scholes, 1997
• First to initiate a PhD program in business (1920)
• First to offer an executive MBA degree program (1943)
• First to establish a minority relations program (1964)
• First and only US. business school with permanent campuses on three continents: Asia, Europe, and North America

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