Chicago GSB

Chicago GSB

Classes begin on: 30th of August 2009

School based in: U.S.

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by: AACSB International

Enrollment

Total graduate business school: 3291

Full-time MBA: 1144

PhD program: 115 

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 21

Program costs
Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  97,165 

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  97,165

Profile
Full-time students in newest entering class (2007-08) that are:

Female: 35 %

International: 40 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 1.6 %

Asia: 20 %

Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 3%

Latin America and the Caribbean: 8%

Middle East: 3 %

North America: 59 %

Western Europe: 6.1 %

Oceania: 0.1%

 

Middle 80% range GMAT scores: from 650 to 760

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 57 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 53

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 35 to 85

New entrants with one year or less of work experience: 1.7 %

Mean age of entering class: 28 

Median age of entering class: 28

Financial Aid

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at school

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 55,276

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 67,500

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

a combination of need and merit

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 175

Permanent/tenured professors: 64

Tenured faculty who are women: 6 %

Tenured faculty who are underrepresented minorities: 2 %

Class offerings

Average students in a full-time MBA core class: 59

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 53

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 77

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, General Management, Human Resource Management, International Business, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:
MBA/MD (Medicine)
MBA/PhD
Other

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:
Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, General Management, Marketing, Strategy

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 95 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 4.8 %

Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0.7 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

1: McKinsey & Company, Inc. (33)

2: Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch (19)

3: Deutsche Bank and The Boston Consulting Group (18)

4: Goldman, Sachs & Co. (16)

5: Bain & Company and Citigroup (13)

6: UBS (12)

7: Booz-Allen & Hamilton (11)

8: Morgan Stanley (10)

9: Bank of America (9)

10: Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (8)

11: Barclays and Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (7) 

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  107,091

Median base salary for most recent graduates: $  100,000

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  29,321

Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  25,000

Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  35,284 

Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  28,750

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 78 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 262%

Finance/Accounting: 53 %

General Management: 12 %

Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 0 %

Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %

Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 1 %

Other: 2.6 %