Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Business School Overview

U.S. News Rankings

Ranking score and category

Rank Category Name #4 Best Business Schools

Specialties Locked in Accounting Locked in Entrepreneurship #3 in Executive MBA #9 in Finance Locked in International #5 in Management #1 in Marketing #5 in Nonprofit #3 in Part-time MBA #6 in Production / Operations Locked in Supply Chain / Logistics

Business School Overview

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University offers graduate programs in these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, industrial management, international business, leadership, manufacturing and technology management, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, public administration, real estate, supply chain management/logistics, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $56,550 per year; part-time: $5,519 per credit; and executive: $83,250 per year. At graduation, 76.9 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

Students can complete a graduate degree in as little as a year at the Kellogg School of Management. There is also a traditional two-year program and a part-time program with classes in the evenings and on Saturdays. Students can pursue accelerated joint degrees like an M.B.A.-J.D. in three years at the Northwestern Law School or a four-year Ph.D. in Management and Organizations and Sociology at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Kellogg also offers a unique, two-year program for students to earn both an M.B.A. and a master of engineering management, called an MMM degree. Courses at Kellogg focus on teamwork and experiential learning, in addition to a mandatory course in global studies.

Outside of classes, students can get involved in the extensive research facilities on campus, including about 25 centers like the General Motors Research Center for Strategy in Management and the Center for Executive Women. Guest speakers give free research seminars frequently, often more than one a day. There are also about 50 student organizations to join, which range from Business with a Heart to the Sports Business Club. Students take classes on the business school campus in Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, and about a quarter of graduate students opt to live nearby in university-owned studios and apartments.

There are more than 50,000 Kellogg graduates, including Edwin Booz and James Allen, cofounders of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.; Ted Phillips, president and CEO of the Chicago Bears; and Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron Corp.

Admissions

Application deadline (U.S. residents)	April 3
Application deadline (international students)	April 3
Applicants (full-time)
Applicants (part-time)

Academics

Departments/concentrations

accounting manufacturing and technology management consulting marketing economics not-for-profit management entrepreneurship production/operations management finance organizational behavior general management public administration health care administration real estate human resources management supply chain management/logistics industrial management quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research international business other leadership

Student Body

Enrollment (full-time)	1,161
Gender distribution (full-time)

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $56,550 per year Part-time: $5,519 per credit Executive: $83,250 per year
Required fees (full-time and part-time)	$225 per year
Required fees (executive degree program)	$0

Salary

Average base salary	$116,864
Full-time graduates employed at graduation	76.9%

* Business School Overview details based on 2012 data