Big News: Another M7 School Launches A Master In Management Program

BOOTH PROGRAM INCLUDES A CO-CURRICULAR COURSE ON SUCCEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE

Chicago Booth’s new MiM will kick off with a two-week “Boothcamp” experience in Chicago that begins in mid-August. Boothcamp includes both academic activities and professional development opportunities to help prepare students for the program and for their careers. After taking the five courses in business fundamentals in the core curriculum as a cohort, Booth’s MiM students will be able to tailor their studies by signing up for a series of four courses in one of five areas: Finance, Strategic Management, Analytics, Marketing, or Entrepreneurship. In each of these concentrations, students choose their four courses from among a portfolio of options. In Entrepreneurship, for example, there are 13 courses that range from New Venture Strategy to Impact Investing. In Analytics, there are a dozen options, from Big Data and Machine Learning to Data-Driven Marketing and Healthcare Analytics.

Overall, Booth says MiM students will be able to choose among more than 100 electives, though there is only one additional elective a student could take after doing the nine courses in the core and concentration. The curriculum also includes what Booth is describing as “a co-curricular course” titled Succeeding in the Workplace. This is a 10-week course that starts in Boothcamp and runs into the school’s Autumn Quarter.

A spokesperson for the Booth School says it intends for the new MiM to be eligible to be a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program — like its peers at Kellogg, Sloan, Stanford, and many others in the U.S., including the MiMs at Yale School of Management and Duke Fuqua School of Business.

BOOTH’S NEW MiM IS AIMED AT NEW UNDERGRADUATES 

Chicago Booth is encouraging those who have earned an undergraduate degree after September 2022 or who will earn it by August 2024 to apply to its new MiM program.

Admission to the Booth MiM will hinge on several factors:

• Submission of a Graduate Management Admission Test or Graduate Record Exam score
• Strong communication skills as displayed in essays and an interview
• A high undergraduate grade point average

BOOTH MASTER IN MANAGEMENT APPLICATION DEADLINES

Round	Submission Deadline	Decision Notification Date
One	November 1, 2023	Week of December 11
Two	January 3, 2024	Week of February 12
Three	March 1, 2024	Week of April 8
Four	April 30, 2024	Week of June 3

ADMISSION INTANGIBLES

Besides GMAT/GRE scores, GPA and essays and interviews, Booth also will gauge four intangible areas:

• Confidence and leadership: “We evaluate an applicant’s overall confidence level and leadership potential. We define this as a strong understanding of and belief in self, a sense of passion for one’s interests, the ability to communicate with conviction, social warmth and gregariousness, and humility”
• Collaboration: “We evaluate the applicant’s ability to work well with others. In particular, we examine the extent to which applicants are able to be active listeners, their ability to recognize how one’s actions and feelings affect others, and their understanding of group dynamics”
• Intellectual Curiosity: “We evaluate the extent to which applicants have demonstrated an active interest in understanding the world around them, their thirst for learning and knowledge, and the extent to which they dedicate time and energy to learning and understanding areas of interest”
• Self-Awareness: “Assessment of self-awareness is based on the following criteria: displays critical introspection and a keen understanding of one’s personality, strengths, weaknesses; demonstrates the ability to accept and incorporate feedback, and to exercise sound judgment and decision-making”

“At Booth, we believe access to top graduate management education can be truly transformative,” says Starr Marcello, deputy dean for MBA programs. “We have seen the power of the Booth MBA for catapulting mid- or later-career professionals. Now we are eager to provide access to those just starting out in the professional world. We believe completing the master in management program at Booth will enable young professionals to marry their passion — whether it be physics, computer science, art history, philosophy, or other areas of the liberal arts or STEM fields — with management skills that position them for high-impact careers.”

Learn more about the Chicago Booth Master in Management program here.

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