Haas F295 (2024)

FAQs

Is it hard to get into Haas School of Business? ›

The acceptance rate for Haas is 13.2% It is important to consider the acceptance rate in the context of the student profile of those who are admitted. For example the average GMAT score is 733.

Haas has an exceptionally competitive acceptance rate of only 15% for full-time MBA applicants. This means that for every 100 students that apply, only around 15 are admitted.

Admission to the Berkeley Haas Undergraduate Program is highly competitive.

At Haas, we live our distinctive culture out loud by embracing our four Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself.

The Berkeley Haas Full-Time MBA Program claimed the #7 spot among full-time programs in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Business Schools ranking.

What Berkeley Haas MBAs Make In Their First Year. Median base salary for Haas MBAs grew by more than $11K to $166,650, and overall compensation rose to $188,354 from $179,696, a 4.8% increase from last year — better than the 3.7% growth in pay from 2021 to 2022.

Berkeley Haas is one of the top 10 MBA programs in terms of work experience, GPA, and the GMAT/GRE. The School is a highly reputable program that competes with other top MBA programs like Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton.

Admissions to Haas is not a cakewalk for the applicants, thus, they must maintain a competitive GPA of 3.64 (91%).

In terms of compensation, the class reported an average base salary of $162,831, representing a $10k increase over last year's class. Meanwhile, the median base salary came in at $166,650–a jump from last year's $155,000 median salary.

Candidates submit their written application including test scores, transcripts, essays and letters of recommendation. Once the application is complete, it goes through a thorough review process by admissions staff. After this review, about 25-30% of candidates are invited to interview.

Are Haas classes curved? ›

Berkeley Haas courses do not have a forced “curve.” There is a grading policy which requires that the mean GPA not exceed the stated caps above. In the past, grading curves were used in Berkeley Haas classes, as is the case across the campus and in large prerequisite courses.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS): This major is one of the most challenging at UC Berkeley due to its rigorous coursework and high demand in the job market.

Berkeley Haas is one of the world's leading producers of new ideas and knowledge in all areas of business, which includes the distinction of having two of its faculty members receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

For the class that entered in the fall of 2018, only 2.9% were accepted at Cornell's Dyson School and just 4.3% were accepted into UC-Berkeley's Haas School. Wharton's acceptance rate also went up — but just slightly from 6.49% to 6.65% this year.

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No. 3 University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business was next with a 1490 average and No. 1 Wharton was fourth, averaging 1486, with Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business rounding out the top five at 1473. The average SAT among all participating schools was 1308.

The Stanford University Graduate School of Business in California once again had the lowest acceptance rate for full-time MBA applicants: 8.42%. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland reported an acceptance rate of 100%.