Berkeley's Haas School of Business is ranked ninth among the best U.S. B-schools by Poets&Quants.

University of California, Berkeley

9. Haas School of Business

430 Student Services Building #1902
Berkeley, CA 94720
Admissions: 510-642-1405
Email: mbaadm@haas.berkeley.edu
Website: http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/
Apply Online: http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/admissions/index.html

Admission Deadlines for Class of 2014:
Round One: 10/12/11
Round Two: 12/1/11
Round Three: 1/18/12
Round Four: 3/7/12

The insiders joke that Berkeley’s Haas School is the business school for hippies. Truth is, that’s never been true, but it’s a nearly quaint way to refer to one of the hardest schools in the world to get into. If you’re interested in tech, entrepreneurship and innovation, Haas is one of the best schools in the world for an MBA.

The highly selective program at the Haas School of Business is anchored by 12 required 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. The core curriculum is rooted in business fundamentals — including marketing, finance, and accounting.

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

Latest Up-To-Date MBA Rankings:

Poets&Quants (2011): 9
BusinessWeek (2010): 4
Forbes (2011): 13
U.S. News & World Report (2011): 7
Financial Times (2011): 25 (Global), 13 (U.S.)
The Economist (2011): 6 (Global), 5 (U.S.)

Ranking Analysis:

Berkeley’s Haas School retained its ninth place ranking in the Poets&Quants survey for 2011, despite some slight slippage in both The Economist and Forbes rankings. Haas fell three spots in The Economist’s global ranking to sixth from third in 2010, and the school dropped one place in Forbes’ new 2011 biennial ranking. Forbes, which ranks schools by the return-on-investment of their MBA degrees, put Haas in 13th place among U.S. schools, down from 12th two years earlier.

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MBA Program Consideration Set:

Stretch Schools: Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Wharton
Match Schools: Columbia, Dartmouth, Northwestern’s Kellogg School, MIT Sloan, Duke, Virginia, Michigan, Yale
Safety Schools: Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, North Carolina

Tuition & Fees: $83,360 (resident)
Tuition & Fees: $99,294 (non-resident)
Median GMAT: 710
GMAT Range (mid-80%): 680-760
Average GPA: 3.59
Acceptance Rate: 12%

Full-Time Enrollment: 498
International: 39%
Female: 30%
Minority –
African American: 1%
Asian American: 30%
Hispanic or Latino American: 8%
Mean Age: 29

Median Base Salary: $110,000
Median Signing Bonus: $20,000
Percentage of MBAs with Job Offers at Graduation: 72%
Percentage of MBAs with Job Offers Three Months Later: 90%

Estimate of Total Pay over a 20-Year Career*: $2,960,527

Note: MBA Program Consideration Set: If you believe you’re a close match to this school–based on your GMAT and GPA scores,  your age and work experience, you should look at these other competitive full-time MBA programs as well. We list them by stretch, match and safety. These options are presented on the basis of brand image and ranking status as a general guideline.

* Payscale 2010 estimate for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.