Access to Ideas that Go Beyond Business
As part of the larger UC Berkeley campus community, you also have access to accomplished students studying in 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 campus to engage with students. These opportunities for cross-pollination are an enriching dimension of your executive MBA education.
Student-Run Conferences and Competitions
Speakers Series
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.
UC Berkeley: A Brand with Global Strength
In the executive MBA program, you not only study in the Bay Area, but at one of the world’s most renowned institutions: The University of California at Berkeley.
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:
#5
2024 Best Global Universities
(U.S. News & World Report)
#6
2023 Higher Education World Reputation Rankings
(The Times)
#5
2023 Academic Rankings of World Universities
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
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A Berkeley EMBA takes marketing from design thinking to systems thinking
“Questioning the Status Quo” comes naturally to Tansy Brooke. During her EMBA program, she found several courses especially helpful, but it was her cohort of 68 classmates, whose friendship, insights, and networking have proved invaluable.