Shortlisting B-Schools

My choice for the business schools is very straightforward as I need to pick up the best business schools for the part time program. I need to look for the programs which are primarily in the mid-west region as that will make my commute easy over the weekend. The two of the best programs in the Midwest for both part time and full time and are on top of my list as well are:
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

I am not sure about the PT ranking for this year, but for the fulltime ranking for the year 2010 (just released by BW), Booth is the top school (beating Harvard) and Kellogg is the number 4 school on that list. I knew that from the beginning that these 2 schools will be my top choices for the MBA, as both of them are offering excellent programs. Each of them is powered by a group of elite faculty members and the super achieving army of the world renowned alumni. These schools offer the evening as well as the weekend part time MBA program. Considering the distance from where I live/work from Chicago, I would prefer the weekend program.
On 6th of August 2010, I attended the Kellogg’s part time informational session in their lake shore drive campus and it was a pretty good experience. I will blog about that soon.

Other 2 schools which are on my list are:
College of Business at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Krannert School of Management, Purdue University

I read somewhere that while making the choices for the B-Schools always consider couple of schools as your realistic choices. These are the schools where you are sure that you will crack their admission procedure and will make it to their program without any setbacks. UIUC and Krannert are the schools that perfectly fit my contingency plan.

After figuring out the list of schools I want to attend, I am now all set to work on each and every school’s admission criteria. GMAT is the top priority on my list and I have already started working on that. As of now my GMAT score will decide where I am heading, till then back to my study table as there is still lot to be done on the GMAT front.