Chicago Booth School of Business

Founded in 1898, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the world and is consistently recognized as one of the world's premier business schools. It is the first to offer an executive MBA degree program, the first to initiate a PhD program in business, the first to establish a minority relations program, and the first business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty. It has permanent campuses on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

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

Ratings and Rankings:

- 6th in the 2010 US News Graduate Business School Rankings.

- 2nd for the Part-time MBA, 3rd for the EMBA, 5th for the Full-Time MBA (U.S. News and World Report 2009).

- 3rd in the ranking of World Top Full-time MBA programs by Economist Intelligence Unit 2008. It is placed No. 1 in the world in 2007.

- 11th in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2009.

- 4th for the full-time M.B.A. in the Forbes biennial rankings, 2009.

- The Full time MBA program is ranked 1st in the world (BusinessWeek 2008).

- 9th for EMBA (Wall Street Journal, 2008).

- 6th in the US and 9th globally for the Full time MBA program, 7th for the Executive MBA, and 6th for the Executive Education program (FT 2008).

- 2nd for the EMBA program (USNWR 2008).

- The Executive MBA program is placed 3rd globally. The Part-Time MBA program is ranked 1st in the Midwest and 7th nationally (BusinessWeek 2007).

- 9th for the full-time MBA (Wall Street Journal, 2007).

- 4th for the Part-Time MBA Programs (Forbes biennial rankings, 2005).

- Science Watch rated the University of Chicago No. 1 in a new ranking based on the impact of business and economic research.

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