The Berkeley MBA Advantage

The Berkeley MBA Program prepares leaders who know how to put new ideas to work. Its rigorous general management education gives you the skill set not just for great functional capabilities, but also for delivering innovation and growth to organizations. You discover how to seize opportunities, challenge conventional wisdom, and lead with creativity. These qualities and skills, which Haas calls Leading Through Innovation, are valuable in the world marketplace, and offer you a career advantage.

A Rigorous General Management Curriculum

The curriculum is anchored in the fundamentals of general management, from finance and marketing to strategy and organizational behavior. It is designed for deep thinking about current and future management and business issues.
Your skills as a leader are developed across multiple dimensions, including lessons in how to deliver strategic, operational, and organizational innovations.
Your courses are enhanced by a series of unique experiential programs that focus on applied innovation, international business development, social sector solutions, entrepreneurship, and more.
Your program of study is flexible, allowing customization to suit your interests; interdisciplinary, drawing on the breadth and depth of UC Berkeley; and innovative, inviting you to design your own electives.
You will gain skills essential to global aspects of management throughout the curriculum, and in a series of special programs involving international study experiences.

Opening Doors to Career Success

When the world's most selective organizations seek new talent, they turn to Haas.
Recruiters regularly report that they choose Haas because the Berkeley MBA Program produces collaborative leaders who possess confidence without attitude.
You will have opportunities to further your career, or launch a new one, as the program's highly personalized career services office works with you to achieve your professional goals.

Where New Ideas Thrive

The San Francisco Bay Area is an unrivaled business ecosystem known for its innovation, entrepreneurship, and forward-moving change - as well as its magnificent scenery, ideal climate, and vast array of outdoor activities. Innovation is part of the ethos of this area, and you feel it every day at Haas.
Integrated into this ecosystem are the University of California Berkeley and the Haas School of Business, which generate knowledge and ideas through the pioneering work of faculty. And Haas has creatively linked its courses and programs across disciplines at Berkeley.

An Exceptional, Collaborative Community

People: Along every dimension, Haas faculty, students, and staff are characterized by the high quality standards of their work, their exceptional talents and creativity, their intelligence, and their diversity of experience.
Culture: Berkeley MBA students are molded by a unique Haas School community that values confidence without attitude, looking beyond the status quo, independent thinking coupled with collaborative action, and making a positive impact on the world. The Haas School culture is about fresh thinking. This is Berkeley, after all.
Network: You develop lifelong professional and personal connections as a member of the Haas School's robust alumni network.

Rich Lyons
Bank of America Dean
Haas School of Business

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