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University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
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University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

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.

The Full-time MBA Program is 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

The 2003-2004 full-time program is comprised of 1112 first- and second-year students.

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