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A Vital Resource for Students

Kilts Students Marketing is the third most popular career choice at Booth, and our alumni pursue careers as CEOs, CMOs, management consultants, general managers, product managers, and entrepreneurs. From fellowships to student group support, the Kilts Center equips Booth students with the necessary skills to succeed at any job, in any industry, throughout their careers.

When Marketing Meets Innovation

When Shota Ido, ’19, applied to Booth, he’d already identified his next career move. In an application essay for Booth, he outlined his goal of becoming a product manager at an enterprise tech company after graduation.

Thanks in part to the opportunities he had as a Kilts Marketing Fellow, Shota realized that goal. Upon graduation, he joined Adobe as a product manager in the tech giant’s San Jose, California-based office.

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A Platform for Success

The Kilts Center is committed to helping Booth attract future marketing leaders and supporting students throughout their MBA or PhD experience.

Kilts Marketing Fellowship

Our fellowship provides select MBA students a support structure they won’t find at other top business schools—significant tuition support and access to a dedicated network of alumni with careers in technology, marketing, and general management.

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Creating Community Through Student Groups

Outside the Classroom

With more than 100 student groups focusing on marketing, analytics, consulting, and even wine, Booth has a student group for everyone. Student groups play an important role in providing students with a network they can leverage to achieve their goals.

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Benefit from Booth Students

Past clients who have sponsored projects through the Kilts Center’s marketing lab courses have compared our students’ work favorably to that of top-tier consultants.

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By the Numbers

200+

Number of MBA and PhD Fellowship recipients

500+

Number of students served each year by Kilts Center programming

2,100+

Number of students who have participated in Marketing Labs

Events That Enhance Careers

At the Kilts Center, we host a number of marketing events to enhance the careers of students, alumni, and faculty. Events such as Marketing Day Forum and the Tech PM/PMM Workshop allow students to immerse themselves in Booth’s diverse global community, create new connections, and gain new knowledge.

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Revving up Startups

The University of Chicago is home to top-ranked startup accelerator programs, such as the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) and the John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The Kilts Center offers NVC and SNVC teams exclusive access to an Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the Kilts Center. The EIR works with teams to tackle questions related to topics such as marketing strategy, customer acquisition, and channel strategy.

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Marketing Lab Courses

The Kilts Center for Marketing helps facilitate experiential-learning opportunities for students via highly collaborative marketing lab courses that give students space to apply what they learn in the classroom and put it toward real-world projects for sponsor-clients.

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Marketing Case Competition

Students form teams to create marketing and growth strategies for a real company, allowing them to build crucial management, consulting, and marketing skills.

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