Finance

The Haas Finance Program is ranked among the best in the world. It features rigorous training from top scholars, and is firmly grounded in real-world applications. Approximately 25 percent of Berkeley MBAs enter the financial services industry. The program prepares students for careers in:

  • Investment banking (including corporate finance, equity research, capital markets, and sales and trading)
  • Management consulting firms
  • Hedge funds
  • Mutual and buy-side funds
  • Corporate finance departments
  • Venture capital and entrepreneurial finance
  • Private equity
  • Economic development

Focus on Finance

The program focuses on several key areas within finance:

  • Corporate finance
  • Asset management
  • Financial institutions and markets
  • Financial economics
  • Investment strategy.

Develop Additional Skills

Courses are integrated with successful practitioners in financial firms. Students have the opportunity to develop skills outside the classroom through:

  • Internships with top financial firms
  • A CEO-mentoring program
  • Participation in the Haas Finance Club
  • Networking with industry executives at Haas finance conferences and the Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum
  • Extramural real estate development and finance competitions

Attend Special Events

Berkeley MBA students regularly win in major finance case competitions, and participate in trips to visit industry leaders, including:

  • 2008 Warren Buffet Trip
  • Finance Alum Dinner
  • 2008 Wall Street Trip
  • 2009 Hong Kong Banking Trek

Berkeley Finance Conference

In 2007, the Haas Finance Club launched the annual Berkeley Finance Conference. The theme for the 2008 conference, held in November, was "Navigating Through Financial Turbulence.” The popular event featured top financial industry executives and academics, as well as students from the Haas MBA Program.

Many of the top financial services firms recruit on campus.

More about the Finance Group and courses

 

Top-ranked specialties

In 2009, US News & World Report ranked the following Haas School areas of study in the top ten nationally:

Finance
Marketing
Management
Entrepreneurship
International
Nonprofit

 

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