UC Berkeley & The Bay Area

In this executive MBA program, you not only study in the Bay Area, but on campus at one of the world’s most renowned institutions: The University of California at Berkeley.

The EMBA Backed by Berkeley Strength, Bay Area Innovation

On Campus, at the Center of the Action

Your classes at Berkeley Haas are steps away from the hotel where you reside with classmates. Being right on campus makes it easy to connect with faculty, with students from our other acclaimed programs, with career services, and with research centers such as our Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program and our Institute for Business & Social Impact.

You’ll also find a full menu of activities offered through:

Access to Ideas that Go Beyond Business

As part of the larger UC Berkeley campus community, you also have access to high-caliber colleagues studying in UC Berkeley’s other top-ranked graduate programs and to some of the most influential leaders and inventive thinkers in politics, the arts, and sciences—who are on the faculty or visit the campus and classrooms to engage with students. These opportunities for cross-pollination are an enriching dimension of your executive MBA education.

UC Berkeley: A Brand with Global Strength

An important part of choosing an executive MBA program is the strength of the larger university to which you will be forever linked. In addition to attending one of the world’s premier business schools, Berkeley MBA students earn a degree from a university whose name and reputation open doors around the globe.

The University of California at Berkeley is ranked:

  • #4 | 2020 U.S. News & World Report ranking of best global universities
  • #6 | The Times Higher Education 2019 World Reputation Rankings
  • #5 | 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University

A San Francisco Executive MBA Program

Your experience is shaped by our location in the San Francisco Bay Area—the world’s epicenter for innovation—where a diverse range of industries converge, from venture capital, to digital media, to biotechnology.

You’ll feel this in your network, with many of your colleagues working at the region’s top companies. And you’ll experience it through our immersions, three of which take place in the Bay Area and have tapped our connections at firms from Facebook and Airbnb to Johnson & Johnson and IDEO.

Business aside, the Bay Area is also perennially designated a leading tourist destination—for its stunning natural beauty, lovely weather, and acclaimed restaurants. It is also known for its worldly sophistication and openness to new ways of thinking.
Tansy Brook

Tansy Brook

Product Marketing Director, ERP EPM Cloud
Oracle
Mountain View, California

“Silicon Valley is one of the most amazing places in the world. It’s full of optimists and misfits who want to move the world toward what it should be, rather than settle for what it is, and Berkeley-Haas is a key part of this community.”