• Your Berkeley MBA Begins HereBACK TO MAIN

    Your Haas education is anchored in the fundamentals of general management

    and the latest theories and best practices in business from accounting and finance to marketing and strategy. You build a basic framework in qualitative, quantitative, analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills. Beyond the core, you are able to tailor your education to meet your goals and interests through a wide variety of cutting-edge elective offerings and global opportunities.

  • The BILD Approach

    Berkeley Innovative Leader Development

    The path to innovative leadership is known as Berkeley Innovative Leader Development (BILD), a connecting theme that runs through the entire curriculum. The innovative leadership archetype is based on a set of specific competencies such as becoming adept at experimentation and problem framing that will give you the knowledge to be successful in the 21st century. All of the Berkeley MBA core courses contribute to the capabilities of the innovative leader.

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  • Pre-Term YEAR ONE

    Pre-Enrollment Review Workshop (optional/late summer)

    Quantitative Methods Workshop: Two-week rseview of math, probability, statistics, accounting, and finance.

    Orientation Week

    All students are welcomed to Haas during a required 5-day introduction to the program that includes curricular overviews, cohort activities, high-profile guest speakers, and an extensive introduction to BILD in the MBA curriculum.

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  • Fall A & B YEAR ONE

    The Core

    Required Core Courses A: Weeks 1-8

    Data & Decisions
    Economics for Business
    Decision Making
    (Microeconomics)
    Leading People
    Problem Finding, Problem Solving

    Career Management Conference: Week 8

    Two-day program of career planning workshops

    Required Core Courses B: Weeks 9-15

    Financial Accounting
    Introduction to Finance
    Marketing Management
    Leadership Communication
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  • Winter Break YEAR ONE

    Global Study and Career Exploration Opportunities

    Global study and career exploration opportunities are key aspects of the Berkeley MBA program. There are several ways students can take advantage of the Haas School's superb offerings throughout the program, including study tours and treks.

    Last winter, for example, a group of students traveled to China to visit Google's operations, as well as LVMH (Louis Vuitton MoÎt Hennessy). Students on the 8th annual Wall Street Trek met with firms including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and RBC Capital Markets.

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  • Spring A & B YEAR ONE

    The Core

    Required Core Courses A: Weeks 1-8

    Operations Management
    Macroeconomics in the Global Economy

    Required Core Courses B: Weeks 9-15

    Ethics and Responsibility in Business
    Strategic Leadership

    Required Experiential Learning Course

    Choose at least one of eight experiential learning courses. Students may take these courses as early as the spring of their first year.

    Electives

    Students can begin taking electives during the spring semester.

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  • Summer Break YEAR TWO

    Summer Internships

    Students are encouraged to work with Career Services to secure summer internships at top global firms.

    Global Study Opportunities

    Students may also participate in the International Business Development (IBD) program, which sends teams of students around the world each summer to work on various projects for foreign corporations, organizations, and governments. This past year, students visited a variety of countries, including Brazil, Chile, Finland, Ghana, Laos, and Saudi Arabia.

    (Participation in IBD does not conflict with a summer internship.)

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  • Fall YEAR TWO

    Electives

    Some of the many electives typically offered in the fall semester of the second year include the following:

    Investment Strategies and Styles
    Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
    Business Law
    Real Estate Finance and Securitization
    Marketing for High-Tech Entrepreneurs
    The Business of Nanotechnology
    Venture Capital and Private Equity
    Advanced Healthcare Finance
    Innovation in Services and Business Models
    Global Financial Services
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  • Winter Break YEAR TWO

    Global Study and Career Exploration Opportunities

    This past winter, groups of students traveled to cities such as New York, China, Brazil, and Kenya on study and career exploration treks. In Kenya, for example, students devoted two weeks to learning about business models, opportunities, and challenges Kenyan organizations face. Another group of students traveled to Brazil to meet with such companies as Unibanco, Cosan, and Natura.

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  • Spring YEAR TWO

    Electives

    Some of the many electives typically offered in the spring semester of the second year include the following:

    Business and Public Policy
    Energy and Environmental Markets
    Game Theory and Business Decisions
    Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise
    Managing Innovation and Change
    Marketing Research
    Opportunity Recognition
    Real Estate Investment and Market Analysis
    Social Entrepreneurship
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The Berkeley MBA's rigorous core curriculum provides a solid foundation, rooted in business fundamentals — including marketing, finance, accounting, etc. Beyond the core, you are able to tailor your education to meet your goals and interests through a wide variety of cutting-edge elective offerings and global opportunities.


Berkeley Innovative Leader Development

BILD is the connective theme that runs through the entire Berkeley MBA curriculum to ensure that every student develops the skills required of innovative leaders.

Infused with BILD's innovative leadership perspective, the Berkeley MBA's rigorous general management curriculum teaches you to become a leader who can harness new ideas to create value for your firm. You acquire skills and qualities that enable you to drive growth to ensure your organization thrives.

The Core

The MBA Program is anchored by 12 required, rigorous and integrated courses that promote a general-management perspective and that provide a framework for the more function-specific courses that follow. The first year of the program is divided into four quarters. Both the fall and the spring semesters contain two separate groups of courses,
A and B.

Electives

You have great flexibility in choosing from a wide variety of electives and dual-degree offerings — from within the Haas School and from the wider university — as well as designing courses of your own in conjunction with a faculty member. Electives, which are introduced rapidly and are updated regularly, reflect the newest ideas, trends, and thinking in business.

The Berkeley MBA

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