Chicago Booth has just appointed a new dean, Madhav Rajan, former senior associate dean at Stanford GSB. Rajan will take his post July 1, 2017. He will succeed Sunil Kumar who was named provost of Johns Hopkins University in July 2016. Some of Rajan’s accomplishments and past positions include: • Currently holds the Robert K….
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From Brand Management in Panama to Tech at Booth, Just the Right Fit
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with a second year MBA student at Chicago Booth, Valerie Angelkos… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as…
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools of 2016
There are more graduate degrees awarded in business annually than in any other field in the US. Dozens of new business schools are accredited every year. Finding the right program for you can be an overwhelming task. Bloomberg’s annual ranking, or more specifically the data collected to create those rankings, may help you wade through…
Poets&Quants 2016 U.S. MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School has taken first place for the sixth time in seven years in the new Poets&Quants ranking of the best MBA programs in the U.S. Stanford is in second place, Chicago Booth is in third, and Northwestern Kellogg and UPenn’s Wharton School are tied for fourth. This is also the sixth out of…
A Former Officer in the Military Takes His Experience to Chicago Booth
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Aviv Shalgi….. Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Aviv: My name…
Chicago Booth Student on Finding the Right Fit, Achieving His Goals
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with a first year MBA student at Chicago Booth, Delano Saporu…. Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study…
Booth Dean Kumar to Become Johns Hopkins Provost
On September 1st of this year, Sunil Kumar will be leaving his post as dean of the Chicago Booth School of Business to become the next provost of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his position at Booth (dean since 2011), Kumar had spent 14 years on the Stanford GSB faculty. In a Chicago Tribune article,…
The MBA Career Search and Life as a Chicago Booth MBA [Episode 158]
The MBA career search and life as a Chicago Booth MBA – check out the latest episode of Admissions Straight Talk. We are joined today by the co-founders of TransparentMBA, a free career data resource for prospective and current MBA students. Introducing Mitch Kirby, Alyssa Jaffee, and Kevin Marvinac, co-founders of TransparentMBA and students at Chicago Booth….
U.S. News Ranks Best Business Schools in 2016
How did your target MBA programs fare this year? Let’s take a look: Top 10 MBA Programs: Here are some observations and highlights (some from Poets & Quants): • This is the first year in seven years that Stanford hasn’t been in the top spot. The school is now tied for second place with Chicago Booth…
2016 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings
Here are some highlights from the Financial Times‘ top 20 global MBA programs (with a few points on women in business school): • This is the first time that a one-year MBA program (INSEAD) has taken the #1 spot. The other 4 schools in the top 5 remain the same as last year, each pushed…
8 Full-Tuition Scholarships for Civic Scholars at Chicago Booth
Earlier this week, Chicago’s Booth School of Business announced the launch of the Civic Scholars Program, a new annual scholarship program that will award full-tuition scholarships to eight Weekend MBA students in nonprofit and government sectors. The new program will be funded in part by a $4-million gift from the Neubauer Family Foundation. The awardees…
Forbes Top 20 U.S. MBA Programs in 2015
Here are the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S. according to Forbes:
2015 Financial Time Best Global MBA Programs
Let’s see how our favorite global MBA programs fared in the 2015 Financial Times rankings. (See the full chart on the FT site here.) Last year, there were some very dramatic leaps and falls. This year there are fewer. Here are some highlights: • UC Berkeley Haas is the only newcomer to the top 10,…
2015 Poets & Quants Best U.S. MBA Programs
The much anticipated Poets & Quants rankings is out! Let’s see how P&Q rates the top schools: • Harvard’s on top. As usual. Here’s the P&Q position on this: “No rival beats Harvard in the formidable resources it brings to the game: more superstar professors than any other school, the diversity of its course offerings,…
Chicago Booth Profile: Class of 2017
Let’s take a look at this year’s newest Chicago Booth class, the class of 2017… • Number of applications received – 4,286 • Average class size – 585 • Female students – 42% • Male students – 58% • Average student age – 27.8 years • Average years work experience – 5 • GMAT range – 570-780 • Average GMAT – 726 • GPA range (mid-80%) – 3.2-3.9 • Average GPA – 3.6 • U.S. minority…
Chicago Booth 2016 Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Chicago Booth EMBA has streamlined its questions this year, giving you one essay with ample space to make your case holistically. This change indicates that they are looking for people who can organize their thoughts, build a credible and compelling case for their candidacy, and maintain an extended yet focused discussion. The Booth EMBA adcom…
A Funding Plan for Business School
As you may know, the MBA experience is more than just building DCF models and structuring LBOs – it’s also expanding your network. Factoring in tuition, living expenses, and the “additional travel and getting to know your classmates” line item (which took me to Ibiza, Israel, Russia, Mexico, and more) – the total bill can…
2015 Bloomberg Business MBA Rankings
Out with the old, in with the new. Let’s take a look at Bloomberg’s 2015 top 20 U.S. MBA programs: • There wasn’t a single overlap between this year’s rankings and last year’s. And there was some very significant shuffling around. These dramatic ups and downs, explains John A. Byrne, rankings expert from Poets &…
Chicago Booth 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Chicago Booth has always prided itself on valuing applicants who can handle ambiguity and lack of structure. And its application reflects that principle. In spades. This year’s Booth application also mirrors Chicago’s pride in its distinctive culture. This essay/presentation question, which is new for this year, is about as open-ended and original as it gets. My tips…
Top Ranked Part-Time MBAs
The U.S. News has released its list of the top-ranked part time MBA programs. Here are the top 10: 1. UC Berkeley (Haas) 2. U Chicago (Booth) 3. Northwestern (Kellogg) 4. NYU (Stern) 5. UCLA (Anderson) 6. U Michigan (Ross) 7 (tie). Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 7 (tie). U Texas- Austin (McCombs) 9. Ohio State (Fisher) 10 (tie). U Minnesota- Twin Cities (Carlson) 10…
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