Full-Time MBA

Full-Time MBA

in Hyde Park, Chicago

Own your experience.
Define your impact.

Chicago Booth offers the world’s most flexible full-time MBA program. Every moment you spend as a Booth student is spent building upon your existing academic and professional backgrounds, bringing you closer to your goals. We are dedicated to ensuring that the return on your time and investment is unrivaled.

The Booth experience provides you with freedom: academic freedom, freedom to take risks, and freedom to define your impact in the world. Our multidisciplinary approach to problem solving empowers you with frameworks for freethinking and sound decision making. You are also welcomed into a community of faculty, alumni, and peers who will open doors for you and proudly support your success—as if it were their own.

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Meet Chicago Booth's Class of 2021

Poets & Quants introduces you to Boothies in the Class of 2021.

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Ask A Boothie: Best Advice for Applicants

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Full-Time MBA Program Overview

Dig into the numbers behind the Booth experience.

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21 Months
Length of Program

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98.4%
Received Job Offers Within 3 Months of Graduation

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70+
Student-Led Groups


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1 Required Course
Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD)

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13
Concentrations

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3–4 Courses
Per Quarter

Class of 2021 Profile

Class Size

593

Average GPA

3.6

GPA Range

2.7–4.0

Average Student Age

28

Countries Represented

49

US Minority Students *

27%

International Students

31%

Gender

Average GMAT

730

GMAT Range

610–790

% of GRE TEST TAKERS IN CLASS

13%

Average Work Experience

5 Years

Undergraduate Majors

Business

29%

Liberal Arts

15%

Economics

22%

Other

4%

Engineering

20%

Physical Sciences

9%

Law

1%

Students represent a variety of backgrounds, interests, and career paths.

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Industries Represented

Arts/Media/Entertainment

 2%

Healthcare

 5%

Accounting

 2%

Manufacturing

 2%

Consulting

 25% 

Non-Profit/Government

10%

Consumer Products 

 3%

Other

 9%

Energy

 3%

Private Equity/Venture Capital 

 8%

Financial Services

 21%

Technology

 10%

Students represent a variety of backgrounds, interests, and career paths.

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Geographic Representation

Africa

1%

Europe

3%

Asia

13%

Middle East

2%

Canada

1%

United States

69%

Central/South America
& Mexico

11%

 


 

 

Students represent a variety of backgrounds, interests, and career paths.

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All above data is as of September 23, 2019

* Includes U.S. citizens and permanent residents who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or multi-ethnic as a percent of the total class.

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Full Time MBA - Winter Break Campus Visit

January 06, 2020 10:30 AM
Harper Center

We invite you to visit us in Chicago. The full Campus Visit Program schedule, including lunch with students and class visits, is offered through May. Class visits will then resume again in October.

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Admissions Events

Held year-round, primarily off-campus and/or virtually

Attend any of our events around the globe, hosted by admissions staff, students, or alumni. 

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Upcoming Deadlines

Chicago Booth admits new students into the Full-Time MBA Program in the Autumn Quarter only. You can apply any time from the date the application is available to 11:59 p.m. CST on the day of the deadline below.

  • Round One Deadline - September 26, 2019
  • Round Two Deadline - January 7, 2020
  • Round Three Deadline - April 2, 2020 


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