Facts & Firsts

Founded

1898; we are the second-oldest business school in the world

Dean

Edward A. Snyder, George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics
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Student Body

Program	Typical Enrollment
Full-Time MBA (includes International MBA and joint degree students)	1,100
PhD	120
Evening and Weekend MBA	1,400
Executive MBA	480
Total	3,100

Faculty

In 2008, Chicago GSB faculty numbered 187; 128 are tenure-track faculty.

Alumni

The Chicago GSB is proud to claim 41,000 alumni who have succeeded in every field and industry in every corner of the globe.

How Others See Us

Business leaders, educators, students, and alumni rate Chicago GSB among the finest business schools in the world. The GSB consistently ranks among the top business schools in surveys of MBA programs.

• Full-Time MBA Program
  #1 Business Week biennial rankings, 2006
  #1 The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2007
  #7 Forbes biennial rankings, 2007
  #4 U.S. News & World Report, 2008
  #6 Financial Times, 2008
  #9 Wall Street Journal, 2007
  
• Executive MBA Programs
  #2 U.S. News & World Report, 2008
  #3 Business Week, 2007
  #7 Financial Times, 2007
  
• Part-Time MBA Programs
  #2 U.S. News & World Report, 2008
  #4 Forbes biennial rankings, 2005
  #7 nationally, #1 in the Midwest, BusinessWeek, 2007
  
• Nondegree Executive Education
  #6 Financial Times, 2008
  #9 Business Week, 2007
  4.0 (Excellent) The Economist 2006

Graduate Employment

Download our employment report for employment statistics for our full-time MBA students, including international MBA and joint degree students.

Research and Learning Centers

The GSB promotes and disseminates research through numerous centers and institutes:

• Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
• Center for Decision Research
• Center for Population Economics
• Center for Research in Security Prices
• George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
• Initiative on Global Markets
• Institute of Professional Accounting
• Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
• James M. Kilts Center for Marketing

GSB Firsts

For more than a century, Chicago GSB has been known as an innovator in business education and a creator of ideas.

• First business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty (George Stigler, 1982)
• First business school to have six Nobel Prize winners: Stigler; Merton Miller, 1990; Ronald Coase, 1991; Gary Becker, 1992; Robert Fogel, 1993; and Myron Scholes, 1997
• First to initiate a PhD program in business (1920)
• First to offer an executive MBA degree program (1943)
• First to establish a minority relations program (1964)
• First and only U.S. business school with permanent campuses on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America

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