Lake Forest Graduate School of Management is a business school located in Lake Forest, Illinois. It opened in 1946 and has satellite campuses in Schaumburg, Illinois and Chicago. Until 2004, the school was located near, but unaffiliated with, Lake Forest College. In 2004, the school moved its campus to its present location, near the Tri-State Tollway.

The Krannert School of Management is Purdue University's school of management. Krannert is sometimes referred to as the Krannert Graduate School of Management or simply as Krannert. The school was established in 1962 as the Krannert School of Industrial Administration with a $2.7 million endowment from Herman & Ellnora Krannert.

University of Northern Colorado (Northern Colorado) is a baccalaureate (arts, sciences, humanities, business, human sciences, and education), graduate (primarily in the field of education), and research university located in Greeley, Colorado. It has a 2006 enrollment of 11,800 students.

DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest, Saint Vincent de Paul. The student body consists of about 24,000 students (approximately 15,000 undergraduate and 9,000 graduate). DePaul is the largest Catholic university and one of the ten largest private universities in the USA; it is the largest private university in Illinois.

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, also known as The Kellogg School or simply Kellogg, is considered one of the world's leading graduate business schools.