Why Choose Lake Forest Graduate School of Management for your Chicago Business School?

Getting Your MBA: Why Now?
There are many reasons to pursue an MBA at a Chicago business school. You may want to remain competitive within your own company, or you may want to change companies – or careers – altogether. You may be striving for pure personal growth, or you may want to start your own business. You may be executing a strategic run for a top management position in your firm, or you may already be there – without the advanced business training the position demands.

Whatever your reason, an MBA from an accredited Chicago business school can help you address your life challenges and reach your goals. With new technology and a changing economy reinventing the workplace, the need to increase your knowledge, stay current with your skills, approach business matters differently, and expand your professional network has never been greater.

An MBA can help you increase your effectiveness, expand your potential, accelerate your success, and enhance your value – to yourself, to your current employer, or to a future employer.

Getting Your MBA: What Are Your Criteria for Evaluating Chicago Business Schools?
Once you have decided to pursue your MBA, it’s important to identify your criteria for evaluating potential Chicago business schools and their MBA programs.

As you compare programs at each school, we recommend that you consider:

• What you will be learning
   
• The credentials and experience of the instructors
   
• The quality of the classmates you will be collaborating with
   
• Whether a school feels like the right fit for you

Carefully determining and considering your criteria, and objectively evaluating programs against them can help you find an MBA program at the Chicago business school that is right for you.

Getting Your MBA: Why Choose LFGSM?
As an independent, not-for-profit organization, we put your educational interests first. Because we focus on the working professional, we've designed our program around what working professionals say is most important in an MBA education. The combined strengths of our curriculum, faculty, students, and administration set us apart from other Chicago business schools.

At LFGSM, you will Learn from Experience^SM – the extensive business experience of our faculty, the average 12+ years professional experience of your classmates, the immediate experience of applying your new learning to your current workplace challenges, and our 50+ years of experience providing graduate business education.