Evanston Campus

The Kellogg School’s full-time program occupies a six-story complex on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. The Donald P. Jacobs Center is equipped with 17 classrooms, more than 50 group study rooms, conference rooms, quiet study areas and a student lounge. It is also home to the school’s administrative and faculty offices. The focal point of the building is the glass-topped Joseph and Carole Levy Atrium where students gather to study, eat lunch and socialize.

Libraries
Northwestern University Library, with more than 3.5 million volumes, is one of the largest university libraries in the United States. Other libraries on the Evanston campus often used by management students are the Mathematics Library and the Seeley G. Mudd Science and Engineering Library.

Information Technology Services
A robust and constantly expanding infrastructure gives students the technological tools they need to complete their coursework and participate in extracurricular activities. On campus, students access the Kellogg network through both wireless and wired Internet connections. Kellogg’s computing labs provide students with specialized software and peripheral resources for their laptops, including printers, large-screen monitors and scanners.

The school’s intranet site offers a wealth of resources helpful for classroom work, as well as club and extracurricular activities. Incoming students can take advantage of Web-based preparatory courses in math, accounting, microeconomics and statistics. The TeamNet system provides students working in study groups with confidential peer evaluations of their team skills.

The Kellogg School offers full technical support for computer hardware and software programs used by business school students. To provide this level of support, all incoming students are required to purchase a specific laptop computer, which comes preloaded with all the communications peripherals and software needed for their studies.

Sports and Recreation
Northwestern’s location along the shores of Lake Michigan makes it an ideal setting for recreational sports such as swimming, sailing, beach volleyball, jogging, in-line skating and cycling. The Kellogg Student Association coordinates participation in a number of intramural sports, including basketball, floor hockey, broomball, volleyball, indoor soccer and softball. Kellogg School teams compete against other MBA programs in soccer, rugby and ice hockey. Northwestern University also offers sports leagues that compete at the club level.

Northwestern University has numerous sports facilities that are free for students. The Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Dellora A. and Lester J. Norris Aquatics Center house racquetball courts, squash courts, an indoor track, courts for tennis and basketball, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a weight room and a sun deck.

Patten Gymnasium has basketball and volleyball courts, weight and gymnastics rooms, and a golf center. Blomquist Recreation Center, located across the street from the Jacobs Center, offers basketball, floor hockey and volleyball courts, as well as cardiovascular and weight machines. Nearby Ryan Field hosts Northwestern football and soccer games. Softball diamonds and tennis courts are located around campus. Northwestern maintains its own beach, just a short walk from the Jacobs Center. Sailing lessons are conducted at the Northwestern University boathouse, and boats may be borrowed upon certification from the Sailing Club.

Student Health
The university maintains a health service for students on the Evanston campus. All full-time students are eligible to use the outpatient services without additional cost. Full information is provided in the Student Health Service Information Bulletin, which is sent to all new students prior to enrollment. For a fee, spouses of students may also elect to be covered by this plan.

Housing
The McManus Living-Learning Center, just three blocks from the Jacobs Center, is an apartment complex exclusively for Kellogg School students, and serves as a wonderful community for both international and domestic students, their partners and children. Fully furnished or unfurnished studio, twin studio and two-bedroom apartments accommodate 250 single students; 50 one-bedroom apartments are available for couples, and 15 two-bedroom apartments are available for families. The center also houses group study rooms, computer labs, exercise facilities, a game room, an underground parking garage and a lounge area. More information regarding on-campus housing is available on the Student Housing Web site.

Off-Campus Housing
From modern high-rises to elegant apartments with Victorian-era details, Evanston has a variety of private apartment choices. An excellent public transportation system of buses and light rail enables students to live in Evanston, Chicago or nearby suburbs and conveniently commute to classes. Once students are admitted, additional resources for finding housing are available. More information about housing is available on the university’s graduate housing Web site.