University of Chicago Graduate School of Business - Definition and Overview

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] (http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/nobel/) news.uchicago.edu/releases/95/951010.nrc.univ.rankings.shtml].

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

• #2 Business Week biennial rankings, 2002
• #5 The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2003
• #6 U.S. News & World Report, 2004
• #5 Wall Street Journal, 2003
• #4 Financial Times, 2004
• #3 Forbes, 2003
• #1 [Economist by poll of polls[2] (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1383461)]
• #1 FT-Asia

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 and Singapore)

The University of Chicago, 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.

External Link: http://gsb.uchicago.edu