Category: Rankings

The Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley count among the leading academic institutions of the world. All Berkeley-Haas programs rank among the Top 10 US programs in all major business school rankings. We’ve compiled all the latest major Haas School of Business rankings here, along with descriptions of their methodologies.

Three Haas MBA programs ranked in top 10 by U.S. News

| by Kim Girard

The Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA Program placed #7 and the Evening & Weekend Program ranked #2 again in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking published today. The Berkeley MBA for Executives program ranked #7, the same as last year. The EMBA ranking is based entirely on a peer poll among deans and FTMBA directors.

The full-time MBA rankings are based on data provided by participating U.S. schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs, as well as surveys of corporate recruiters and company contacts. The score is calculated from placement success and starting salary (35%), student selectivity (25%), a peer poll (25%), and the average of the last three years of recruiter polls (15%).

Part-time MBA rankings are based on data from participating schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited part-time programs. The score is calculated from  the peer polls (50%), student selectivity (27.5%), work experience (10%), and percent of MBA students who are enrolled part-time (12.5.).

Haas also ranked in the top ten of the following specialty rankings, based on a peer poll among deans and FTMBA directors:

#2 Real Estate

#4 Entrepreneurship

#4 Nonprofit

#8 Finance

#9 Business Analytics

#9 Management

#10 International

Last year, the FTMBA placed in a three-way tie for #6. It ranked #7 for 11 years prior to that.

 

Master of Financial Engineering program ranked #1

|By Haas News

Haas MFE Graduation

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Program ranked #1 for the fifth year in a row, according to The TFE Times’ ranking of Master’s of Financial Engineering programs published on Feb. 3, 2020.

This ranking is based on data provided by participating US schools and focuses primarily on the quality of the applicants. The rankings components are weighted as follows:

25% Mean GRE Scores

25% Mean Starting Salary and Bonus

15% Mean Undergraduate GPA

15% Acceptance Rate

10% Full Time Graduates Employed at Graduation

5% Full Time Graduates Employed 3 Months after Graduation

2.5% Total Number of Distinct Courses Available

2.5% Total Research Expenditures

The TFE ranking rates a variety of finance degree programs hosted in disciplines ranging from business schools to mathematics, engineering, and statistics.

More on the methodology.

 

 

Alumni salaries remain strong in FT full-time MBA ranking

| by Kim Girard

The Berkeley Full-time MBA Program ranked #8 in the US in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking published today. Globally the program ranked #12.

Alumni salaries, which account for 40% of the ranking, remained strong. The weighted salary of Haas alumni three years post-MBA, which is adjusted for regional purchasing power (PPP) and sectors, was the sixth highest in the world.

The ranking is based on a survey of full-time MBA alumni three years after graduation and on data provided by participating business schools.

In 2019, Berkeley Haas ranked #10 globally and #7 among US schools.

The rankings package includes profiles of two alumni: April Underwood, MBA 07, whose Silicon Valley career led her to found #angels to fight the gender equity gap in the tech entrepreneurship sector, and Alvaro Silberstein, MBA 17, whose startup Wheel the World leads adventure trips for people with disabilities.

Full-time MBA program remains #8 in Poets & Quants ranking

| by Haas News

The Berkeley Haas Full-Time MBA placed at #8 again in Poets & Quants’ 2019 ranking, published on Nov. 15.

 

The meta ranking is based on the results of five other rankings published in US News, Forbes, the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Economist. U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, while both The Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek are given a 15% weight, and The Economist, 10%.

View the full report and methodology.

FTMBA ranked #7 in the world by The Economist

| by Haas News

The Economist magazine ranked the Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA program #7 in the world—up four points over last year—and #6 among US schools in its “Which MBA?” ranking published today.

Haas students and alumni once again ranked the school #1 for culture and classmates.

Haas’ four-point jump in the overall ranking was primarily due to a significantly improved ranking in career opportunities. Specifically, Haas rose in the diversity of industries recruiting the school’s graduates and in its student and alumni rating of Haas career development services.

Haas students and recent alumni also rated its alumni network as more effective than they have in past years. Its alumni network again ranked as the most international.

This ranking is based on data provided by participating schools and a survey of students and recent alumni (MBA classes 2018, 2019, and 2020), conducted in spring 2019. The Economist evaluates schools in four categories: career opportunities, personal development/educational experience, salaries, and potential to network.

In last year’s Economist ranking, the FTMBA program was #11 in the world and #10 among US peers, after previously ranking #7 in the world in 2016 and in 2017.

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Haas ranks #8 in Bloomberg Businessweek

| by Haas News

The Berkeley Full-time MBA Program ranked #8 in Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual MBA ranking published Nov. 4.

Schools were evaluated in four aspects of the MBA experience that were weighted based on this year’s employer and alumni input: compensation (37.30%), networking (25.70%), learning (21.30%), and entrepreneurship (15.70%). Haas ranked #10 in compensation, #13 in networking, #18 in learning, and #4 in entrepreneurship.

The ranking is based on feedback from MBA employers, recent full-time MBA graduates, and alumni who graduated in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Participating schools also provided salary data of the 2018 graduating class, which factored into the compensation aspect.

Last year, Haas ranked #6 in this ranking. In comparison, it also ranks #6 in this year’s US News & World Report ranking.

U.S. News ranks Haas undergrad program #3

| by Haas News

US News & World Report ranked the Haas Undergraduate Program #3 in this year’s college ranking.

The ranking, part of the U.S. News Best Colleges report, is based solely on a peer poll of business school deans, faculty, and undergraduate directors who are asked to rate business programs on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Two years of poll data are used to calculate the score.

In top specialty rankings, Haas ranked as follows:

#3 in management

#3 in real estate

#4 in marketing

#5 in entrepreneurship

#5 in international business

#5 in finance

#8 in production/operation management

Haas performs well in two new rankings

| by Kim Girard

The Full-Time Berkeley MBA program is ranked #9 in the world by QS and is #11 in the US on Forbes’ list of Best Business Schools 2019.

The QS ranking is based on an employer survey, an academic survey and data provided by participating business schools. Each ranked school’s overall score factors inemployability (40%), return on investment (20%), entrepreneurship and other alumni outcomes (15%), thought leadership (15%), and class and faculty diversity (10%).

The Forbes ranking, published on September 18, is based on the five-year return on investment achieved by MBA graduates from the class of 2014. It weighs the salary increases post-MBA against the opportunity costs of forgone salary, tuition, and required fees. Forbes included more than 100 schools in its ranking and reached out to 17,500 alumni around the globe for the 2019 ranking.

The Berkeley MBA class of 2014 reported a five-year salary gain of about $75,000 on a pre-MBA salary of $88,000, compared to a 2018 salary of $205,000. Alumni reported a payback time of 4.1 years.

Forbes has ranked the top MBA programs based on their ROI biennially since 1999.

Big jump in influence for California Management Review

| by Haas News

Berkeley Haas’s academic management journal, California Management Review, has earned a big jump in its impact factor—a measure of how frequently its articles are cited by scholars and a gauge of academic influence among top journals.

CMR LogoThe journal’s single-year impact factor is 5.0, and its five-year impact factor is 5.33 in this year’s Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report, a ranking of global research publications.  This marks the fourth consecutive year the journal improved its ranking and position among the top business journals. (Last year the journal’s impact factor was 3.3).

A journal’s impact factor is derived from how frequently its articles are cited by scholars in their own research. Citation information is collected and analyzed each year in

“We are very pleased by this increasing recognition of CMR’s editorial mission to publish research that both engages scholars and offers new insights into the practice of management,” said Editor-in-Chief David Vogel, a  Berkeley Haas professor emeritus.

One of the most frequently cited recent articles in California Management Review was written by Berkeley Haas Prof. David Teece. “Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy” focuses on the concept of agility within established businesses. While organizations are often compelled to transform to remain competitive, Teece asserts that perpetual transformation is not always the best option, and proceeds to draw an important distinction between uncertainty and risk. The article, which has been cited more than 3,000 times, emphasizes the need to respond to the uncertainty of innovation through the development of dynamic capabilities.

More information about California Management Review’s impact factor and international rankings is available here, along with links to new research and information about publishing in the journal.

Full-time MBA program ranked #6 globally by América Economia

| by Kim Girard

The Full-time Berkeley Haas MBA program placed sixth in the world in the MBA Global 2019 RAmerica Economia MBA rankinganking by América Economia, a Latin American business magazine. The annual ranking includes the best Latin American and worldwide business schools for Latin American students.

Among the top 10 in this year’s ranking, four of the MBA programs are American: Haas, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale.

América Economia ranked the MBA programs based on performance in five areas: multicultural and diversity experience (22.5 percent weight); network potential for Latin Americans (12.5 percent weight); selectivity (27.5 percent weight); focus on innovation (10 percent); and international positioning, which refers to how the programs are ranked in The Economist, The Financial Times, and the QS MBA Rankings (27.5 percent).

For more information on the Spanish-language ranking, visit the website.

Berkeley Haas rises in the U.S. News rankings

| by Haas News

The Full-time Berkeley MBA and the Berkeley MBA for Executives rose to their highest ranks ever in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking published today.

U.S. News ranked the Full-time Berkeley MBA #6 for the first time—tied with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Columbia Business School; the Berkeley MBA program had ranked #7 for the prior 11 years.

The full-time MBA rankings are based on data provided by participating U.S. schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs, as well as surveys of corporate recruiters and company contacts. The score is calculated from placement success and starting salary (35%), student selectivity (25%), peer poll (25%), and the average of the last three years of recruiter polls (15%).

The Berkeley MBA for Executives rose to #7, up from #9 last year, in the EMBA ranking. The EMBA ranking is based entirely on the peer assessment by business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs.

The Evening & Weekend MBA ranked #2 with an index of 99 (out of 100) points, after being ranked #1 for the past six years. The part-time MBA ranking is based on a peer assessment score by deans and MBA directors (weighted 50%), various student quality measures, and percent of MBA students who are part-time (12.5%).

In the specialty rankings, Haas placed as follows:

#3 in nonprofit

#5 in entrepreneurship

#6 in international

#8 in finance

#8 in management

#9 in marketing

#14 in accounting

#14 in info systems

#14 in production/operations

#19 in supply chain/logistics

The full report is available here.

Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program ranked #1

| by Haas News

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Program was again ranked #1 by The Financial Engineer, which published its annual financial engineering rankings this week. The Berkeley MFE has placed #1 in this ranking since 2016.

TFE focuses 55% of its ranking on the quality of the class (students’ GREs, GPAs, and the acceptance rate) and 40% on post-degree outcomes. Another 5% is based on the number of distinct courses available and research expenditures.

Read the full report here.

Full-time MBA Program ranked #7 by Financial Times

| by Kim Girard

Financial Times logoThe Full-time Berkeley MBA Program again ranks #7 among US schools and #10 in the world, according to the Financial Times Global MBA ranking published today.

Haas faculty research ranked #9 in the world and #7 among US schools.

The ranking is based on data provided by participating schools and input from alumni who graduated in 2015, which accounts for 55% of the ranking.

Strong alumni salaries are a factor in the Haas School’s showing. Haas alumni recorded the 4th highest weighted salaries in the world and 8th highest salaries today. (Weighted salaries refers to the average alumni salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent, with adjustment for variations between sectors). These two salary components account for 40% of the ranking.

Haas, tied with Michigan Ross, scored the highest in aims achieved with 91% alumni reporting that their MBA achieved their aims.

In the top special categories, determined by the alumni survey, Haas ranks as follows:
#2 in corporate social responsibility

#3 for entrepreneurship

#3 in e-business

View the full report.

Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Program ranks #2

| by Kim Girard

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering ProgramImage- MFE program ranks #2 in the world, according to a new ranking of the top 15 quant finance masters programs published by Risk.net on January 16.

Risk.net’s ranking is based on eight metrics, ranging from acceptance rate, job offers, and salaries to faculty research and faculty-student ratio. Particular weight was given to average graduate salaries — $159,402 for Haas MFE graduates — and a strong post-commencement employment rate — 99% of Haas MFEs.

View the full report.

In other reports, the Berkeley MFE is ranked #2 by QuantNet and #1 by TFE Times.

Haas rises in Poets & Quants meta ranking

| by Haas News

Poets and Quants logoThe Berkeley Full-time MBA Program rose to #8 in Poets &Quant’s annual meta ranking of US full-time MBA programs, up one spot from 2017.

The Poets & Quants MBA meta ranking is based on five influential MBA rankings: US News, Financial Times, The Economist, Businessweek, and Forbes. Each ranking is separately weighted: U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, The Financial Times and Businessweek are given a 15% weight, and The Economist, 10%.

Haas ranked #7 in both US News and the Financial Times, #9 in Forbes, #10 in the Economist, and #6 in Businessweek.

Haas ranked #9 in Poets & Quants in 2017, and #8 in the two prior years.

 

Berkeley Haas rises to #6 in Businessweek’s Best B-Schools ranking

| by Haas News

Businessweek Best B-Schools logoBerkeley Haas rose to #6 in Bloomberg Businessweek‘s Best B-Schools ranking of U.S.-based full-time MBA programs, the highest spot ever for the school in this ranking.

Businessweek‘s 30th annual ranking is based on surveys from almost 27,000 MBA students, alumni, and recruiters, along with data on compensation and job placement. Haas performed strongly this year in several categories, ranking #4 in entrepreneurship, #10 in starting salaries, and #10 in networking. Last year, the publication ranked Haas #11 overall.

Businessweek has significantly adjusted its ranking methodology over the past few years and made additional changes this year, noting the changes mean this year’s results are not directly comparable to prior years. Since 2015, the ranking has taken into account job placement and compensation, using data provided by the business schools and by alumni who are six-to-eight years post-graduation. That’s in addition to its customary poll of MBA employers and of the most recent graduating full-time MBA class (2018).

The publication asked employers, alumni, and recent grads to weight the importance of each of the ranking’s four categories/indexes. Based on the results, Businessweek weighted the four categories as follows to calculate schools’ overall ranking:

Compensation: 38.5%
Networking: 27.9%
Learning: 23.1%
Entrepreneurship: 10.5%

This year’s Businessweek Best B-Schools of U.S.-based full-time MBA programs is based on surveys of 10,400 students, 15,000 alumni, and 1,170 corporate recruiters, along with compensation and job-placement data from each school. A full global ranking will be published on December 11.

Haas Undergraduate Program ties for #2 in US News

| by Kim Girard

U.S. News and World ReportUS News & World Report ranked the Haas Undergraduate Program #2 in this year’s college ranking. Haas ranked #3 last year.

Haas tied for #2 with MIT Sloan’s program.

The ranking, part of the U.S. News Best Colleges report, is based solely on a peer poll of business school deans, faculty, and undergraduate directors who are asked to rate business programs on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Two years of poll data are used to calculate the score.

In the top ten specialty rankings, Haas ranked as follows:

#3 in management

#3 in real estate

#4 in entrepreneurship

#4 in international business

#6 in finance

#6 in marketing

#6 in production/operation management

Full report

Two Berkeley MBA programs ranked among the world’s best

| by Haas News

America Economia MBA rankingThe Full-time and Executive Berkeley MBA Programs achieved top global rankings in América Economia and Forbes, respectively.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA program placed fourth in the world in the MBA Global 2018 rankings by América Economia, a Latin American business magazine. The annual ranking includes the best business schools for Latin American students.

Berkeley Haas placed in the top four, behind Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and Spain’s IESE. Among the Top 10 in this year’s rankings, five MBA programs are based in the U.S.: Haas, Stanford, Harvard, Yale School of Management, and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

América Economia ranked the MBA programs based on performance in four areas:

  • academic strength (40%)
  • knowledge production (15%)
  • internationalization (20%)
  • networking power (25%)

EMBA program ranks #9 worldwide, #6 in U.S.

In a separate ranking, published by Forbes, the Berkeley MBA for Executives program ranked #9 worldwide, and #6 among U.S. schools, in the 3rd annual “Best Executive MBA” ranking released May 31 in partnership with Ivy Exec.

The “Best Executive MBA” ranking is compiled by Ivy Exec without data provided by business schools. To create the ranking, approximately 6,000 top-level professionals are surveyed to evaluate more than 250 EMBA programs worldwide on five core criteria: prestige, career advancement, curriculum, global experience, and work-life balance.

Berkeley EMBA Ranks #4 in the World

| by Haas News

The Berkeley MBA for Executives Program ranks #4 in the world, according to The Economist‘s “Which MBA?” ranking for EMBA programs released today.

This is the first time the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program has participated in the three-year-old ranking.

Executive MBA programs were evaluated on two broad measures: personal development/educational experience and career development (including networking), each of which accounted for 50% of the ranking.

Berkeley Haas ranked #1 on networking opportunities for EMBA graduates, which considers Haas alumni chapters around the world and the student rating of the helpfulness of EMBA alumni.

Berkeley Haas ranked #4 in career development, based primarily on its score in career progression and in the extent to which the program helped alumni to fulfill their pre-EMBA goals.

Berkeley Haas EMBA graduates also had the third highest salaries among the most recently graduated classes.

This ranking is based on data provided by participating schools and a survey of alumni of the Classes of 2014 to 2017. Due to how close the scores were, The Economist grouped all ranked programs into bands. The Berkeley MBA for Executives was part of Band A.

View the full report here.

Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA #1 again in U.S. News; all programs in Top 10

| by Haas News

The Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA ranked #1 again in U.S. News

The Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA is the #1 part-time MBA program in the U.S. for the 6th year in a row, according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Business Schools ranking published today.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program held at #7 for the 11th consecutive year, and the Berkeley MBA for Executives ranked #9 again this year.

Haas stood out in six Top Ten specialty rankings this year:

  • #4 in International
  • #4 in Nonprofit
  • #5 in Entrepreneurship
  • #7 in Management
  • #8 in Finance
  • #9 in Marketing

Full-time MBA rankings methodology

The Full-time MBA ranking is based on a peer assessment, a recruiter assessment, and data provided by participating schools.  The Full-time MBA rankings are based on data provided by participating U.S. schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs, as well as surveys of corporate recruiters and company contacts. The score is calculated from:

  • Placement success and starting salary: 35%
  • Student selectivity (GMAT & GRE scores, undergraduate GPA, acceptance rate): 25%
  • Peer poll: 25%
  • Average of the last three years of recruiter polls: 15%

Part-time MBA rankings methodology

The part-time MBA ranking is based on:

  • Average peer assessment score: 50%
  • Average GMAT & GRE scores of students entering in the fall of 2016: 15%
  • Average undergraduate GPA: 5%
  • Work experience:15%
  • Percentage the fall 2015 MBA enrollment that is part time: 15%

The executive MBA and other specialty rankings are based solely on ratings by deans and full-time MBA directors at peer schools.

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Business Schools is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. Earlier this year, the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program ranked #7 among US schools in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking. The full-time program was also ranked #7 by The Economist’s Which MBA? ranking last October.