Hamburger University

Hamburger University is a training facility at the McDonald's Corporation global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

[1] Hamburger University's mission is to become an “organizational culture hub, introducing a continuous education process for the value chain and transforming knowledge into actual business results.”[2] Hamburger University students take courses about restaurant operations, leadership skills, customer service, operations, and procedures.

More than 5,000 students attend Hamburger University each year and over 275,000 people have graduated with a degree in "Hamburgerology."

[3] Hamburger University training started in 1961 with a class of 14 people in the basement of one of its restaurants.

The school takes up 16,846 square feet (1,565.0 m2) and is decorated with pictures of McDonald's products and equipment.