Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University (2024)

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Academics

Faculty

Kellogg employs over 200 tenure-track and clinical faculty members across seven academic departments and two professional programs. This group of scholars and practitioners directs Kellogg’s 20 research centers, which cover a spectrum of topics from family enterprise and nonprofit management to healthcare and real estate, and support the four other research centers at Northwestern University.

Curriculum

Like most MBA programs, Kellogg employs a variety of teaching methods. The school reports that professors rely on team projects, case studies and lectures as well as experiential or simulation-based instruction. First-years at Kellogg are divided into eight sections of roughly 75 students and then into small study groups for their courses.

MBA classes typically begin in mid-September and end in early June, with convocation taking place in mid-June. Kellogg works on a quarter system; full-time students take classes during the fall, winter and spring terms with most pursuing an internship during the summer term. Those enrolled in the One-Year program take courses during all four quarters. Within the academic year, Kellogg students have short breaks between quarters and for holidays such as Thanksgiving.

During the first year of study, Kellogg students take nine core courses out of the minimum 20.5 courses required for graduation. The core covers foundational business principles in accounting, strategy, finance, marketing, economics, operations, statistics and management. Students are allowed to waive classes that overlap heavily with previous coursework or relevant work experience; a waived course is exchanged for an elective. During the second-year pre-term orientation period before classes start in the fall, all students are also required to take Leadership and Crisis Management, a half-credit course based on case studies and exercises in crisis simulation.

Kellogg students meet the remaining credit requirements with elective courses, including a one-credit global management option fulfilled in any quarter by taking one of several courses or par­ticipating in a study abroad program. Moreover, all students may complete at least one major; historically, more than 80% of students double major and more than 50% meet the requirements for three majors. There are eight major areas of study from which students can choose, including Accounting, Economics, Finance, Managing Organizations, Operations, Strategy, Management Science, and Marketing. Specific requirements vary for each major; if a major is not selected, then General Management is noted on the transcript.

Other MBA Degree Options

In addition to its 22-month full-time MBA program, Kellogg offers a one-year accelerated MBA degree, a three-year JD/ MBA program with Northwestern Law, and a dual-degree Master’s in Engineering Management (MMM) program with the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2020, they announced a new joint degree in science and business, the MBAi. This new degree is also in partnership with the McCormick School.

Part-time options include Evening MBA and Saturday MBA programs in Chicago and Evanston and Executive MBA offerings in Evanston and Miami, with opportunities to study abroad in Israel, Germany, China and Toronto.

Finally, the Kellogg Future Leaders program allows current undergraduate seniors and graduate school students without work experience to apply for a future spot in the Kellogg MBA class. Deferment, during which candidates earn relevant work experience, lasts two to five years.

Majors at Kellogg

• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Managing Organizations
• Marketing
• Operations
• Strategy

Degree Offerings at Kellogg

Full-time MBA Programs
Two-Year (2Y), One-Year (1Y), MMM and JD-MBA
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Programs/FullTimeMBA.aspx

Part-Time MBA Programs
Evening and Saturday options
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Programs/PartTimeMBA.aspx

Executive MBA Programs
Miami, Evanston
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/executive-mba.aspx

Dual Degrees
JD/MBA
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/jd-mba-program.aspx

MBA from Kellogg and an M.S. in Design Innovation from the Segal Design Institute at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (MMM) https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/mmm-program.aspx

Joint Degree
MBAi – a joint degree between Kellogg and the McCormick School of Engineering in business and science
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/mbai-program.aspx

Campus Life

Clubs, Conferences & Competitions

Students at Kellogg enjoy many opportunities for extracurricular involvement. Full-time MBA candidates have 106 full-time club offerings in total to choose from across a fairly balanced range of affinity, athletic, cultural and professional organizations. Kellogg Worldwide Experiences and Service Trips, commonly referred to as KWEST, have remained one of the most popular activities year after year. KWEST takes place the week before pre-term orientation and connects incoming students with second-year student trip leaders for a week of international exploration. Past destinations have included Malaysia, Japan, Chile, Turkey, Iceland, Peru, Alaska, and Hawaii. Second-year students may study at one of Kellogg’s 24 international partner schools in their fall or winter semester. Kellogg also offers more traditional clubs such as the Investment Management Club, Kellogg Marketing Club and Net Impact. In conjunction with the schools’ clubs, several conferences are regularly hosted by Kellogg faculty and students. These cover numerous topics, including healthcare, tech, private equity and more.

Kellogg also sponsors a variety of competitions for its students. A particular hallmark of the program, the Annual Kellogg Marketing Competition, takes place over the course of three elimination rounds spanning two months, during which entrants compete in pitching a product to the Kellogg community. Meanwhile, the annual Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition is open to teams of students from MBA programs across the globe. In this contest, students present innovative solutions for a case created by a Kellogg professor that examines a problem in the medical industry.

Campus Space

In March of 2017, Kellogg opened its Global Hub, a 415,000-square-foot home for the business school perched alongside Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. The new building took over classroom and collaboration space for the MBA students from the Donald Jacobs Center. The Global Hub is comprised of a 6,000-square-foot central atrium, a two-story faculty area with seminar rooms, and a 300-person capacity auditorium. The new classrooms are designed to be flexible, with the ability to change seating arrangements from tiered to flat, as well as to expand. Finally, the 7,800-square-foot Galvin Family Design Wing and Conference Center, is dedicated to hands-on experiential learning across four design studios.

The majority of students choosing to live on campus take up residence in the McManus Living-Learning Center just three blocks away. The James L. Allen Center, which sits on the edge of Lake Michigan, is the heart of activity for the Evanston Executive MBA and Executive Education programs.

MBA Careers

Career Services

The Kellogg Career Management Center (CMC) offers a wide range of career counseling services, including one-on-one strategy sessions, self-assessment workshops, videotaped mock interviews, résumé reviews, networking events and an online job posting system. In addition, the CMC organizes a busy schedule of internship and full-time recruiting events on campus, with five weeks dedicated to second-year recruiting in the fall and five weeks for first-year students beginning in January. Kellogg students have the opportunity to meet company representatives year-round through corporate presentations, networking nights, and club-sponsored guest speakers and career treks.

Career Statistics

Ninety-five percent of Kellogg’s Class of 2023 had secured job offers three months after graduation. The median starting salary for Kellogg MBAs after graduation is $175,000.

The most common industry choice for Class of 2023 graduates was consulting at 42%. Twenty-two percent of students joined financial services. Tech firms employed 17% of Kellogg 2023 graduates, while 7% of students took jobs in the consumer products industry and 3% went into health care.

U.S. Midwest placement landed at 32% while 28% settled in the Northeast. Twenty-three percent headed to the U.S. West. Eleven percent headed South, which also includes the Southwest U.S. Six percent headed abroad.

Financing

The tuition for the Two-Year MBA for the 2023-2024 academic year is $81,015. However, Kellogg estimates that with additional expenses such as rent and textbooks, students will pay $120,432 total per year. Both merit- and need-based scholarships are offered by the school to finance the MBA. In order to be considered for most of these awards, applicants should fill out the Kellogg Financial Aid application, made available upon admission, as well as other necessary forms such as the FAFSA; awards are given on a first-come, first-served basis. Admits are automatically considered for certain merit-based awards for which they are eligible, including several corporate-sponsored diversity scholarships. There are also a variety of loan options available to Kellogg students, including federal loan programs for U.S. citizens and private loans for international students such as the NU Loan, which one can apply to with an international co-signer.

Cost of Attendance 2023-2024

• Tuition $81,015
• Food & Housing $19,800
• Books & Supplies $1,647
• Travel $1,329
• Personal $3,150
• Health Insurance $5,144
• Computer Equipment $1,200
• University Health Services Fee $798
• Student Activity and Experience Fee $1,400
• Student Association Fee $390
• First Year Fee $2,000
• Loan Fees $2,559
• Total $120,432

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