Harvard Business School
The Harvard Business School implements a type of lottery-based system for their masters program. The students rank their classes based on priority on what they prefer and then the classes are computer generated. There are two rounds of this computer generated class schedules. The first is nothing more than a practice round which then students are able to reevaluate their priority lists. After the second round the students are stuck with their schedules. One blaring con of this system is that you are not guaranteed the classes you want. Also, students find the process confusing and create scheduling conflicts. However, one pro that I find this creates is that students are able to take classes they might not have been able to before. If a class seems interesting to them, will benefit them in the future, but isn’t required for them to take, this system allows them to possibly get into that class.

Kellogg
The Northwester Kellogg School of Management takes a different approach than HBS. Their system is a bidding type of system. Students are given 3,000 points to use over three quarters. They bid on courses that they want then sit back and wait to see if they get them. There are two rounds worth of bidding that allows you to fill up your own schedule. A con that there seems to be is that classes are becoming too expensive. Students are bidding high for certain classes, but then only being charged the clearing price. Or in other instances being charged a great amount and not having many points to go around for future quarters. A pro that I see this system has is that if you truly want to take a certain class, with a certain professor you can. All you have to do is sacrifice the points. And I know for certain individuals they think it is all about the professor, others think it is all on them.

UIC Business
Finally, at UIC business they