The week long program accepts less than 1% of applicants into the exclusive institution, which teaches serving and management skills at its worldwide campuses
The McDonald’s Hamburger University is more exclusive than top UK institutionsCambridge and Oxford University, it has been revealed.
Only eight out of 1,000 students are accepted onto the course, according to the latest available figures.
Compare that to prestigious institutions such as Oxford University, which has an acceptance rate of 18%, and Cambridge University, which has an acceptance rate of 20.8%, and you start to get an idea of how tough it is to enroll.
There are currently seven campuses worldwide in Tokyo, London, Illinois, Sydney, Munich, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai with an eighth campus scheduled to open in Moscow later this year.
The UK campus teaches management and service skills in East Finchley, north London.
Students can learn a number of skills in leadership development, business growth and operations procedures to help prepare students for a job in management.
The credits can go towards a bachelor’s degree in 1,600 US colleges or universities – or in a Hamburgerology degree.
Employees can earn their degree by passing the course, which has been running since founder Ray Kroc opened the first centre in Illinois in 1961.
The university’s first class saw 14 people graduate – now, it has had 275,000 graduates.
There are 16 full-time professors at the Illinois campus alone who can teach in 28 different languages.
Training includes exercises such as “fake” customers testing a student’s abilities by ordering progressively longer and more complicated meals.
The $40 million (£26 million) campus boasts 17 teaching rooms, three kitchen labs, a 300-seat lecture hall and eight “interactive education” rooms.
It also has a McDonald’s museum called Heritage Hall which displays old uniforms and other objects, including Ronald McDonald’s original romper suit.
Ray Kroc bought the empire in 1961 for $2.7 million (£1.76 million) and transformed it into the most profitable fast food company in the world.
McDonald’s brand value was more than $81.1 billion (£52.9 billion) this year, miles ahead of coffee chain Starbucks and sandwich shop Subway.
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