Pros: focus on technology and entrepreneurship, beautiful new campus, small and friendly Cons: career center has been bad, but is rapidly coming up. not a finance school.
Haas is an incredibly friendly, small (240 per year) and technology and entrepreneurship-focussed school in a beautiful mini-campus environment. Best of all, Haas is getting better and better under Dean Laura Tyson's hand.
Pros: great place to learn business and finance (at a fraction of a price); outstanding career resources for grads Cons: atmosphere often highly competitive
I attended Haas Business School's undergraduate program for two years and graduated in May 1999. As a transfer student from a Community College in the San Francisco Bay Area, I found entry requirements for the School rather challenging, but the extra...
Pros: Close interaction with excellent faculty, students pull for each other -- no backbiting, amazing exposure to Silicon Valley & tech mgmt. Cons: public university amenities not as lush (see: Haas Computer center budget = $5m, HBS's = $30m)
The Haas MBA clearly deserves to be considered a top-10 (if not top-5) program. One of the most difficult MBA programs to get into, and deservedly so. The faculty are some of the best in the business (pun intended) with well-known figures like David...
Pros: low-stress, helpful classmates, high-tech atmosphere, career center support Cons: makes it tough to move away
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As a recent graduate, I can say with conviction that the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC, Berkeley provides a mentally challenging curriculum in a nurturing, collegial environment. If you thrive on...
Pros: Close and collaborative community of super bright people Cons: Less money than our competitors
Small and public = a tight-knit and highly proactive student body, which is proven by the end-product. Because Haas students can't rely on a big endowment to take care of things, they have "on the job training" in resourcefulness and 'making...
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