What school in the Chicago area has a good grad program for Marketing?

Question

I'm looking to go into grad school for Marketing in another year, and I was wondering what schools in the Chicago area offer a good grad program. Thanks in advance!

I have a 3.5 GPA, heavily involved in Greek Life, yada yada... I'm looking for the best school I can get into.. thanks again!

Answer 1

In the Chicago area (Evanston), Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management hosts one of the top (if not THE top) marketing programs in the world. In fact, Kellogg was voted the " Best Business School" for six years in Business Week's survey of U.S. business schools. It is also rated as the " Best Business School for the Teaching of Marketing". Philip Kotler, who teaches marketing at Kellogg, has for years been considered the marketing "guru." His textbook is widely used in marketing programs all over the world. I earned an MBA (not at Northwestern), and used Kotler's text.

University of Chicago also has a world-class business school which, in the past, has been ranked #1 in the country by USNews & World Report's annual rankings. Clearly, their marketing program would be top notch, but my sense is that Northwestern's program is best.

Answer 2

Northwestern and U of Chicago are definately good choices.

DePaul has a really good MBA program located in the loop. A lot of part time students enroll in their downtown campus for night school. Loyola also has a program at their Mag Mile campus, and Lake Forest School of Management has a location off LaSalle Street.

Both Notre Dame and U of Illinois (U-C campus, not UIC) have executive programs. Not sure about their downtown locations, though. If you still can't find a program that works, some brick and mortar universities offer online MBAs - Duke and Indiana come to mind here - that you can do anywhere, anytime.

Answer 3

Pick a group of schools that you are considering and call them and ask who what companies are hiring their graduates and what percentage of them have marketing jobs at graduation or within 30 days. (Also ask who is taking their students for internships--a good indicator of what the b. community thinks of the various schools.)
Then pick a bunch of companies nationwide YOU would like to work for, call their h/r departments and ask them from which schools they prefer to see candidates and from which schools they are hiring.
It's all about market research.

Answer 4

as far as Dallas is going: Southern Methodist college (SMU) has a good artwork college, yet its concentration is greater on wonderful arts than on image layout. The artwork Institute of Dallas is yet another probability.