Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, where we bring you school-specific details about the leading MBA programs in order to highlight important differences between the top schools. Our goal is to get applicants thinking about the many factors that shape the business school experience. This week’s entry focuses on the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center.
While Chicago’s flexible core curriculum is well known, less well-known is the flexibility they offer in scheduling individual courses – or in making up missed classes. The Chicago GSB operates the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, approximately seven miles from the GSB’s main campus. The home of the evening, weekend, and executive MBA programs, the Gleacher Center shares the same professors and course offerings as the main campus. However, because the Center caters to working professionals, most courses are taught in the evening and on weekends, while weekday courses are the norm at the main campus. The fact that the same courses – by the same professors – are taught multiple times each week on the two campuses gives Chicago GSB students a unique “back-up” option for making up missed classes. Although professors are not required to let full-time MBA students attend the Gleacher Center section of a class if they’ve missed their session on the main campus, most professors do not have a problem with the practice. This has the benefit of allowing Chicago students to balance their academic, recruiting and extracurricular commitments with greater ease, though may also result in less-cohesive course sections, since in any given week there may be students who choose to attend an alternative class meeting.
For more information on the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center and academic scheduling, check out Chicago’s website or the Clear Admit School Guide to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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