Hamburger University
Hamburger University is a 130,000 square foot (12,000 m²) training facility of McDonald's Corporation, located in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The university was designed to instruct personnel employed by McDonald's in the various aspects of the business. The university has graduated over 70,000 managers and has 30 resident professors.
Hamburger University was founded in 1961, at a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Class sizes today are over 200 students per class on average.
The current dean is Diana Thomas.
Fast facts about Hamburger University
- Hamburger University is on an 80 acre (320,000 m²) campus.
- 22 full-time international resident professors teach students from more than 119 countries.
- The state-of-the-art facility includes 17 teaching rooms, a 300 seat auditorium and four special team rooms for interactive education.
- Hamburger University translators can provide simultaneous translation of more than 27 different languages.
- McDonald's trains so many people each year that they've surpassed the U.S. Army as the nation's largest training organization. Restaurant employees receive about 32 hours of training in their first month with McDonald's.
- More than 5,800 students attend Hamburger University each year.
From McDonald's Web site