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University of Chicago Graduate School of Business


The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business is a top-tier business school located in Hyde Park in Southern Chicago. It boasts the highest number of Nobel-laureate alumni and faculty of any business school [1] [2].

Both Full-time MBA and EMBA Program are generally ranked in the top-5 of world-wide business schools:


The 2003-2004 full-time program comprises 1112 first- and second-year students. The University of Chicago also offers a part-time MBA program and an Executive MBA program with identical curriculum, faculty, and classes to the full-time program.

Chicago EMBA is available (both full-time and part-time) in its permanent campus in three continents (Chicago, London/ Barcelona and Singapore).

The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, or "GSB", as it is fondly called by students, boasts many 'Firsts':

  • First business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty (George Stigler, 1982)
  • Only business school to have had 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 Ph.D. program in business (1920).
  • First to offer an executive M.B.A. degree program (1943).
  • First to offer an executive M.B.A. program in Europe and Asia.

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