All about the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business

The Haas School of Business is a graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley. Having been established in 1898, Haas School of Business is the country’s oldest business school at a public institution and it is the country’s second oldest business school. Read on to learn more about Haas and how to get your application accepted.

Degrees offered

Haas School of Business offers a lot of different programs, including those for full-time MBA, evening and weekend MBA, executive MBA, PhD, undergraduate, joint-degree, and dual-degree. Among the concurrent degree programs are the JD/MBA Program, the MBA/MPH Program in Health Management, and the MBA/MA Program in International Area Studies.

Alumni

Among some of the well-known alumni to come from Haas are the following members:
- Arun Sarin – ex-CEO of Vodafone
- Scott Adams – creator of Dilbert comic strip
- Rick Cronk – former chairman and president of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
- Donald Fisher – chairman and founder of Gap Inc.
- John Hanke – Founder and CEO of Keyhole Inc., Co-creator and Product Director of Google Earth
- Norman Mineta – US Secretary of Transportation
- Paul Otellini – President and CEO of Intel
- Rudolph A. Peterson – President and CEO of Bank of America
- Rodrigo Rato – IMF Managing Director, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain

Rankings and reviews

Some of the rankings that the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business include the following:
- US News & World Report Best Graduate Schools 2011: 7th nationally
- Economist Intelligence Unit, full-time MBA rankings 2009: 1st internationally
- US News & World Report, full-time MBA rankings 2010: 7th nationally
- BusinessWeek, full-time MBA rankings 2008: 8th nationally
- Financial Times, full-time MBA rankings 2006: 16th internationally

Admission tips

If application time is nearing, then there isn’t much that you can do to improve your resume and basic application information. For this reason, you may want to try and focus on coming up with an application essay that will knock the socks off the admissions committee. Reflect and inject a lot of personality and character into your essay. Remember to edit and rewrite it multiple times until you get the perfect copy come submission time.

Admission facts

Student Enrollment:
- 2,264 students in six degree programs

Class of 2010
- Applicants: 4064
- Enrolled: 239
- International: 31%
- Women: 28%
- Ethnic minority: 30%
- Median Age: 28
- Median years work experience: 5 years
- HS GPA of 3.75 or higher: 83%
- HS GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 16%

SAT scores for full-time entering business students on 1600 scale:
- Mean: 1,400
- Median: 1,420
- SAT middle 50% range on 1600 scale: 1,330 – 1,500

Contact info

Haas School of Business
545 Student Services #1900 (mail address)
2220 Piedmont Avenue (delivery address)
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900

Full-time MBA Program Admissions
1-510-642-1405

http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/contact.html