Chicago Booth Firsts

Founded in 1898, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the United States and one of the most distinguished. Here is a sampling of how Chicago Booth has transformed business education:

• first to publish a scholarly business journal (1928)
• first to award a PhD in business to a woman (1929)
• first to offer an executive MBA program (1943)
• first to establish a minority scholarship program (1964)
• first with six Nobel Prize-winning faculty members: George Stigler (1982), Merton Miller (1990), Ronald Coase (1991), Gary Becker (1992), Robert Fogel (1993), and Myron Scholes (1997)
• first and only US business school with permanent campuses on three continents: Asia (Singapore), Europe (London), and North America (Chicago)