Arnold Longboy, Director of Executive Education and Student Recruitment - Europe
Status of establishment
Chicago Booth is part of the University of Chicago
Date founded
1898
Head/principal directors
Edward A. Snyder (Dean)
Business school ranking
3rd Business Week 2008, 4th, U.S. News & World Report (2008), 7th, FT 2008
Number of employees/academic staff
187
Numbers of students, full-time
281 across London, Chicago, and Singapore campuses
Proportion of female students(%)
18%
Proportion of overseas students (%)
100%
Proportion of MBA students: sponsored (%)
approximately 67%
self-funded (%)
approximately 33%
Typical course costs
Tuition for Europe-based executive MBA programme, £63,000
Profile
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is one of the leading business schools in the world, consistently ranking in the top 10 and frequently in the top five. The school's faculty includes many renowned scholars and many of its 42,000 graduates in over 100 countries occupy key positions worldwide. The Chicago approach to management education is distinguished by how it leverages fundamental knowledge, its rigour, and its practical application to business challenges. The school offers full- and part-time MBA programmes, a PhD programme, open enrolment executive education and custom corporate education, with campuses in London, Chicago and Singapore. Current enrolment includes 1,100 full-time MBA students, 1,900 part-time MBA students of whom 90 are studying in London, and 110 PhD students. Six current or former faculty members are Nobel Prize winners in economics. Among the school's many successful alumni are Bart Becht, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser plc, Kateryna Chumchenko Yuschenko, First Lady of Ukraine, and Paul Deneve, President of Lanvin, France.
Recent clients
Barclays, Sodexo, Smith & Nephew, Lafarge, Northrop Grumman