Chicago Minds Campaign

For more than 125 years, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has produced pioneering discoveries, cultivated a preeminent faculty whose work deepens understanding and shapes new disciplines, and nurtured students who have become innovators across industries.

Today, the global Booth community is uniquely positioned to solve evolving challenges in areas from artificial intelligence to healthcare to sustainability, and to educate the next generation of business leaders. We stand at a moment of tremendous opportunity to further cement our position as the world’s best social science research institution and educator of future global innovators.

Through the Chicago Minds campaign, Chicago Booth will capitalize on our traditions of rigor, analysis, and collaboration to become the global destination for thought leaders who are shaping and defining new fields, and for students who have the greatest potential to harness their education for impact. New investments will:

Fuel a state-of-the-art infrastructure and research ecosystem.
Strengthen our position as the destination for superstar faculty across disciplines.
Support scholarships and experiences that attract the best students from every background
Position Booth as the world leader in applying data analytics to address the most important issues of our time.

We invite you to partner with us in this work. Engage with our global community. Become a donor to the Annual Fund. Fund the professorships and scholarships that support great minds. Make transformative commitments that will define the future of Chicago Booth.

Explore Our Campaign Priorities

Faculty Excellence

Invest in research support and professorships, helping Chicago Booth gain a significant advantage in recruiting and retaining the most sought-after scholars.

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Student Support

Fund scholarships and student experiences, enabling Chicago Booth to open our doors to students from all financial circumstances.

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Data Science and Innovation

Become a philanthropic partner, allowing Chicago Booth to bring bold solutions and new ways of thinking to humanity’s greatest challenges.

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Building The Future

Support our core operational essentials and infrastructure, especially through gifts to the Annual Fund, and play a leadership role in the future of Chicago Booth.

See Booth Chicago Minds in Action

Hear from several members of the Booth community about what drives them and what is special about our school.

Video Transcript

Erik Hurst:
The University of Chicago is immensely special, and Booth is a very important part of that University of Chicago culture.

Steven Neil Kaplan:
We have the best business school faculty in the world. We certainly have the most Nobel Prize winners.

Erik Hurst:
We as scientists have influenced policy with cutting-edge research.

Katrina Bernhardt:
Booth's focus on an analytical mindset and the Chicago approach was a strong draw for me, but then also the student body felt so down to earth.

Erik Hurst:
Booth students are among the best in the world.

Katrina Bernhardt:
It's not only one way, from the professor to the students. It's really an active discussion.

Erik Hurst:
We always want to be teaching how to think as opposed to what to think. These are the people that are going to be the movers and shakers of future generations, and having an ability to help them see a perspective on the world they might not have thought about before, it's one of the greatest joys of being here.

Steven Neil Kaplan:
The Booth students are special because they come here and they actually want to learn something.

Katrina Bernhardt:
The scholarship that I received from Chicago Booth was really life-changing. We're not only becoming business leaders, but people leaders.

Erik Hurst:
The philanthropy is kind of a lifeblood of higher education, and then it's on us, the researchers, to make sure that we're creating science that's going to be lasting and worthy.

Katrina Bernhardt:
It's incredible being in this community of outstanding and accomplished future leaders.

Erik Hurst:
We spend a lot of our time here at great institutions, like the University of Chicago, trying to build walls of knowledge to leave to future generations.

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Chicago Minds Campaign at Chicago Booth

A multi-year effort to advance groundbreaking research, expand student support, promote faculty excellence, and more deeply engage our global community.