Aisha Dubaiwali

I am looking in to going to Chicago for Masters in the near future. Any good masters level programs or universities?

Xenophanez

Aisha, this thread is best suited for C&A forum. Moving there. :-)

phoenixdesi

MS in what? and how is your academic record?

Aisha Dubaiwali

Media Studies or something related? Business would do as well. I am a 4.0 student from the past 4 semesters. Academically and Student CV wise I am really good.

Lucid Chaotic

Are you restricting yourself to Chicago's city boundaries? if not, then Northwestern is probably your best bet to start with... just outside the city, its best known for its Kellogg School of Management - and most other grad programs are well regarded as well.

Aisha Dubaiwali

Well it's not like I have family there, so will most probably live in the dorms. Does not really matter as long as it's near Chicago. What about universities in Chicago itself?

pak-one

I recommend University of Chicago if you are interested in Chicago city itself.

Just curious, why Chicago? When I think of the top programs in the US, they seem to be concentrated in the Northeast+California.

teggy

Media is usually concentrated in NY and CA.

Chicago's top of the line business school is most def: Northwestern University.

University of Chicago is among the elite in various fields, including Medicine but the admission is just as exclusive.

Consider the following:
Ranking Chicago's MBA Programs | Crain's Chicago Business

It is a list of top MBA programs offered at various schools in Chicago.

pak-one

Teggy, not that I have any connections to Booth other than working with a few grads from there, but let me clear up the rankings issue: They don't mean much when you are talking about top programs. Kellogg's marketing specialization might be amazing but Booth wins hands down in Finance. So the choice would really program/concentration specific. Either way both are great schools

teggy

Perhaps you're right. I don't know as much about Business Schools.

ulooshah

I have lots of friends who did masters from chicago. Obvious top ranking choices are northwestern and university of chicago. University of Illinois- chicago is really good too. If you can afford being a few hours away from chicago, then university of illinois - urbana champagne is really good too

Jafri

Decent unis in the suburbs and city of Chicago are Northwestern and Loyola.

Other than that, down in Champagne which is like 6, 7 hours from Chicago is the University of Illinois, great uni.

Aisha Dubaiwali

wow university of illinois is good?! my friend goes there i think

Jafri

lol U of I is great.

X2

6-7 hours? how about 2.5 hours from downtown?
other good uni not too far from Chicago are NotreDame, which is about 90 mins away
but cant go wrong with Northwestern or Chicago.

Aisha Dubaiwali

Oh ok will google these ones.

teggy

Please make sure you have your credits evaluated, and know the requirements before hand. In most cases you will be required to take and pass GRE/TOEFL as a part of admission process along with other required material.

Best of luck.

You have some great suggestions up there, i would recommend contacting each of those schools directly and get as much information as you can. Guidance counselors can walk you though the entire process and lay out a specific plan for you once they have your documents (transcripts, etc.)

Aisha Dubaiwali

Teggy got accepted to Northwestern I just opened this thread to see what you guys opinions are of universities and if anyone mentions Northwestern. Thank you everyone for the suggestions!

Jafri

really? I thought champagne was around 5-6 hours away o_O

ulooshah

it takes 2-3 hours max from downtown to champagne. Out of all the listed ones above, UoI chicago is probably the lowest and Northwestern the highest ranked (maybe along with Uni of Chicago)