Why berkeley mba

Culture Step on campus, or have any interaction with our faculty, students, and alumni, and you'll experience the way we live our distinctive culture. Question the Status Quo We thrive at the epicenter of innovation.

Confidence Without Attitude We make decisions based on evidence and analysis, giving us the confidence to act with humility. We foster collaboration by building a foundation of empathy, inclusion, and trust. Students Always We are a community designed to support curiosity. Beyond Yourself We shape our world by leading ethically and responsibly. You gain these capabilities through: Leadership development. Learn how to inspire others and how to make decisions based both on analytic rigor and on understanding the impact of those decisions on real people.

Experiential learning. Absorb, question, discuss, and debate in the classroom. Then, test your growing skills in one or more of our nearly 20 applied innovation courses.

Global fluency. Opening Doors to Career Success With less than students enrolled in each entering class, we are regularly the smallest of any top full-time MBA program. Study at Berkeley Haas, and you study at the heart of what's next, in this region known for its entrepreneurial spirit and successes and for companies that redefine industries and drive global economic growth. Life at Haas also means being part of the University of California, Berkeley, home to Nobel scholarship, cutting-edge research, and teaching that each draw from and strengthen the innovation ecosystem in the Bay Area and beyond.

To step on campus or have any interaction with our faculty, students, and alumni is to experience the way we live our distinctive culture. We thrive at the epicenter of innovation. We make progress by speaking our minds even when it challenges convention. We lead by championing bold ideas and taking intelligent risks. We make decisions based on evidence and analysis, giving us the confidence to act with humility. We foster collaboration by building a foundation of empathy, inclusion, and trust.

We are a community designed to support curiosity. We actively seek out diverse perspectives as part of our lifelong pursuit of personal and intellectual growth. There is always more to learn. We shape our world by leading ethically and responsibly. As stewards of our enterprises, we take the longer view in our decisions and actions. This often means putting the collective good above our own interests. Across every dimension, Haas students, faculty, and staff are characterized by the high quality of their work, their exceptional talents and creativity, their diversity of experience, and their commitment to inclusiveness.

Applicants select Berkeley Haas in order to join a diverse global community of people who use the tools of business to make a positive impact. Once here, our students work with and alongside others who embrace our Defining Leadership Principles—and see how their role is to contribute to a larger purpose. Traditional business education was designed for the 20th-century economy.

Berkeley Haas has adapted its teaching model to respond to the challenges and opportunities that are taking shape worldwide.

Haas has retained its strong general management foundation, and continues to produce leaders who excel at the core skills employers tell us they need more of: critical thinking, communication, and constant adaptability. Our new state-of-the-art teaching building, Chou Hall, features classrooms designed with the collaborative teaching and learning styles needed today. Its zero-waste systems are a model of sustainability. The proximity of these companies to each other, and to our campus, creates opportunities for growth and development for every Berkeley Haas student.

Students have direct access to the innovation economy through internships, consulting projects, speakers, company visits, and networking. Recruiters regularly report that they choose Haas because our programs produce collaborative leaders who possess confidence without attitude.