Early Career Candidates: Overview

Overview | Application Process | Early Career Alumni | Applicant Profile

If you are eager to enroll in an MBA program at an early stage of your career, Chicago Booth welcomes your application for admission. Contrary to popular belief, Chicago Booth encourages applications from candidates who have less than the average of five years of full-time work experience.

There is no separate program or admissions process for early career candidates, but applications from these students will be reviewed with certain criteria in mind. To give you a sense of what makes a successful early career candidate, we've prepared a profile of Early Career candidates as a guideline for interested students.

Chicago Booth also offers a Summer Business Scholars Program, a three-week summer program for current and/or recent undergraduates who are interested in doing an MBA degree in the future. Through courses in finance, accounting and marketing, liberal arts majors learn the language of business and access a whole new range of career options. Students already studying business gain a competitive advantage over their peers from the exhilarating Chicago approach to management education. To learn more about the Chicago Booth Summer Business Scholars Program, please visit our website or contact us.

Note: If you are an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, you should review information about the Chicago Booth Scholars Program, which allows fourth-year University of Chicago students to apply prior to graduation, and defer enrollment for two to three years.