In fall 2012, there will be nine new professors on staff at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. Toby Stuart, who worked previously as a professor at Harvard Business School, will be a Haas professor and faculty director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. For the past two years, Stuart has been a visiting…
Good Employment News for Haas Grads
Whether graduating from Haas with an MBA, Bachelor’s, or PhD, the job search seems to be getting a little bit easier. According to early employment data for the MBA grads, the “mean and median base salary for the class [is] currently trending to exceed last year’s.” Eighty-eight percent of this year’s class has received offers,…
Haas Tries Out Online Learning
The Haas School of Business at Berkeley is going to launch three digital pilot courses this summer. The three courses purposely vary in style, instruction, and even in the vendors used to implement them, in order to better assess their effectiveness. The first online course will begin in June, and is a prerequisite for the…
Wharton MBA Student Interview
Here’s a talk with Cindy Law, a 2nd year Wharton student who attended UC Berkeley Haas as an undergrad. Cindy tells of her experiences at both places, as well as her post-MBA plans. Thank you Cindy for sharing your thoughts with us! Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where are…
End of Berkeley-Columbia EMBA Program
Columbia Business School and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business are closing their joint executive MBA program in 2013, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. While the program was originally “about the East Coast meeting the West Coast and Silicon Valley meeting Wall Street,” things have changed over the last 10 years, and “both schools became full-service programs that…
US News 2013 MBA Rankings
And here are the top 10 per US News & World Report: 2013 Rank School 2012 Rank 1 Harvard 2 1 Stanford 1 3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3 4 MIT (Sloan) 3 4 Northwestern (Kellogg) 5 4 Chicago Booth 5 7 UC Berkeley (Haas) 7 8 Columbia 9 9 Dartmouth (Tuck) 7 10 Yale…
Haas MBA Student Interview
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here’s a talk with Amara Aigbedion, a student from Houston who is…
Consortium MBA Admissions Director Interview Available Online
Thank you for attending our recent Consortium Strategy Q&As with Travis McAllister and the reps from participating Consortium schools UT McCombs, University of Wisconsin, UC Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross, CMU Tepper, Indiana Kelley, and Rochester Simon. The school adcom representatives each talked about what’s new at their schools and how their programs view…
Get Your MBA Admission Smarts ON!
Are you looking for ways to boost your MBA admissions IQ? Interested in acquiring wisdom that will send you to the head of the class? Want advice that covers every aspect of the MBA admissions process that’s all wrapped up nicely in a single, coherent, and succinct BOOK? Look no further – the MBA book…
2012 UC Berkeley Haas Admissions Director Interview Posted
The UC Berkeley Haas Q&A was a huge success, with Stephanii Fujii, Executive Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions, answering questions on a wide variety of topics. You can read the whole Haas Q&A transcript or listen to the full audio clip online. (You can also catch previous Q&As for other top programs on our MBA…
Bring it on Berkeley: UC Berkeley Haas MBA Admissions Q&A Tomorrow!
Join us for an interactive admissions Q&A tomorrow, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT when Stephanie Fujii, UC Berkeley Haas‘s Executive Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions, will answer your questions on Berkeley’s MBA admissions policies, program, and student life. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Haas’s mission…
Last Week’s Most Read Blog Posts
Here are the five most read posts at Accepted during the past week. Check them out! Chicago Booth 2012 MBA Essay Tips UC Berkeley Haas 2012 MBA Essay Tips 2012 Common Application Tips Why Write a Blog Post Series on MBA Goals? MBA Blogger Interview: Shekmba’s Journey It turns out that Linda Abraham’s most read…
Another US News Top Ten!
US News is at it again! The magazine’s newest top ten list is the top 10 Business Schools That Receive the Most Full-Time Applications. Not surprisingly, almost all the top 10 programs listed in US News’s rankings of the best business schools were also on the list of the top 10 business schools that received…
MBA Admissions News Round Up
While MBA applicants frequently pore over U.S. News’ college rankings, Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business gave U.S. News inaccurate job-placement data in order to boost its rankings. An internal investigation discovered that many of the graduates listed as employed had questionable employment opportunities, and many who were…
UC Berkeley Haas 2012 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips
The UC Berkeley Haas 2013 tips are now available. Click here to check them out! This UC Berkeley Haas MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Management Consulting
This post about Haas and management consulting is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting,…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Technology
This post about Haas and technology is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Entrepreneurship
This post about Haas and entrepreneurship is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Marketing
This post about Haas and marketing is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Finance
This post about Haas and finance is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
