$175K
Median base salary for Booth’s 2025 Full-Time MBA graduates*
$175K
Why Chicago Booth
We don’t teach you what to think. We sharpen how you think.
Every business school on your list will tell you that they develop leaders.
At Chicago Booth, we do something more specific: We build the way you think across each of our global campuses.
Chicago Booth is known for The Chicago Approach™, an evidence-based method for thinking developed by our faculty, validated by 10 Nobel Prize winners in Economic Sciences, and refined across more than 125 years of rigorous, data-driven education.
More than 61,000 alumni across 120 countries have spent their careers proving what it’s worth: a way of thinking that makes you sharper and more decisive, in every room you walk into, for decades after you leave.
The Return on a Chicago Booth Education
The outcomes below reflect what happens when a way of thinking compounds over a career, opening doors to better opportunities, bigger decisions, and the kind of people who expand what’s possible for you.
15K+
Number of our alumni who work in the C-suite
15K+
93.5%
Percentage of 2025 Master in Management graduates who accepted job offers within six months of graduation*
93.5%
84%
Percentage of 2025 Part-Time MBA students who received a promotion while in the program and up to four months after graduation*
84%*Source: Data above is from our publicly available employment reports.
Rewriting the Code
When technology entrepreneur and investor Dave Liguang Chenn, MBA ’00, couldn’t find the career opportunities he wanted, he created his own.
Chenn came to Chicago Booth in search of something more exciting than his mechanical engineering career—but admittedly knew nothing about business. By the time he graduated, he had the skills to score a product management role at Oracle.
After a few years, he left to move back to his home country of China, where he founded multiple successful technology startups. Now, Chenn continues to make an impact in technology as CEO of Oceanpine Capital.
“I learned a lot of business skills and business knowledge and, most importantly, a business mindset from my Booth education,” he says. “It’s not just the financial knowledge and business strategies, but the idea of innovation and staying rigorous.”
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The Chicago Approach: A Way of Thinking That Lasts a Career
The Chicago Approach: A Way of Thinking That Lasts a Career
The Chicago Approach is Chicago Booth’s distinctive educational philosophy, and there is nothing else like it in business education.
Pioneered in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Booth faculty James Lorie, PhD ’47, and W. Allen Wallis at a moment when business education was in crisis, it revolutionized how the field thought about rigor, evidence, and the relationship between research and practice.
Decades of teaching have refined it, but the core method remains: question answers, stress-test ideas with evidence, and arrive at conclusions others haven’t reached yet.
It’s not a philosophy you study. It’s a method you practice in every class, on every problem, from your first week to your last, no matter which program you choose.
What a Booth Education Does to the Way You Think
The Chicago Approach isn’t abstract. It shows up in how you make decisions under pressure, the risks you’re willing to defend, and the people you build your career alongside—during business school and long after you leave.
You Learn to Make Decisions You Can Defend
Most business education teaches you what to conclude. Booth teaches you how to get to the right answers. Through curricula and experiences that integrate real-world datasets, AI-driven analysis, and frameworks built for problems that don’t have predetermined answers, you graduate not just with knowledge but with a method for stress-testing it.
Back Your Conviction. Every Time.
Booth doesn’t reward the expected answer. Here, you’re encouraged to explore unconventional positions, take calculated risks, and build arguments grounded in evidence rather than convention. The peers and faculty around you will challenge your thinking—not to intimidate, but to sharpen it. The result is a kind of confidence that follows you into every room, every negotiation, and every decision long after graduation.
You Learn Alongside Other Curious People
The people around you are just as important as the curriculum. Your classmates bring different industries, perspectives, goals, and ways of thinking into every conversation. This makes every discussion an opportunity to challenge your assumptions and grow as a thinker and a leader. Those relationships don’t end at graduation. They become a global network that lasts for the rest of your life.
Find Your Program
Wherever you are in your career, there’s a path at Booth designed to help you reach what’s next.
MBA Programs
Put your bold ideas into action. No matter which degree program you choose, learn from world-class faculty and join the same influential network, and the same dynamic community.
MBA Programs
Specialized Masters Programs
Launch your career in management or finance with a specialized masters degree from Chicago Booth.
Specialized Masters Programs
The Stevens Doctoral Program
Explore your research interests and earn a PhD from one of the best business PhD programs in the world.
The Stevens Doctoral Program
Executive Education at Chicago Booth
At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, we are dedicated to developing data-driven executive education programs—rooted in the latest academic research—to meet the evolving needs of executives and their organizations.
Executive Education at Chicago BoothReady to Think Differently?
Take the next step. We’re here to help you find the right path.
Every Pillar of the Booth Experience Has a Deeper Story
Here’s where you can learn more and see if a Booth education is right for you.
Leadership Impact
Discover how Booth graduates lead differently, and why the companies they build reflect it.
Leadership Impact
Career Advancement
A Booth degree doesn’t just change your next job. It changes your ceiling, and everything that becomes possible after that.
Career Advancement
Faculty Impact
They changed how the world thinks. Now they’ll change how you think.
Faculty Impact
Our Global Footprint
From Chicago to London to Hong Kong, discover how Booth’s global reach becomes your permanent advantage.
Our Global Footprint
The Chicago Approach
Most business schools give you knowledge. Booth gives you a method.
The Chicago ApproachThe Booth Experience, In Their Words
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