Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management Academics

The Kellogg School offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) as well as a doctoral program, and a joint degree in law (JD/MBA) with Northwestern Law School, manufacturing (MBA/MEM) with McCormick School of Engineering, and medicine (MD/MBA) with Feinberg School of Medicine. Other programs include internships, work-study programs, foreign exchange with 15 countries, and joint research. The strongest areas of study are finance, marketing, management and strategy, entrepreneurship, and management and organizations. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. In the past year, more than 400 CEOs, managing directors, government officials, and senior executives gave keynote addresses at Kellogg conferences and were guest speakers in classes or at student events.

Twenty-five total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 15 elective credits. Required courses include:

• Marketing Management
• Finance I
• Accounting for Decision Making
• Values and Crisis Decision Making
• Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions
• Operations Management
• Business Strategy
• Strategies for Leading and Managing Organizations

Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 22 months. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2<1/2> years; maximum, 5 years.

There are 176 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 93% hold a doctorate; there are 101 part-time faculty. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 57.