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A Passion For Teaching Excellence

The foundation of your entire UC Davis MBA experience is our distinguished professors, their depth of knowledge and their personal attention. Our small class size allows you to build strong connections to your professors, creating a dynamic learning environment that places a premium on teaching excellence.

Graduate School of Management professors blend their accomplished scholarship and industry know-how to bring management lessons to life with vivid examples. Through a powerful combination of case studies, seminars, guest speakers, simulations and team projects, they turn complex concepts into actionable tools you will use throughout your business career.

My course focuses on what defines and makes the leader of an enterprise successful over the long term. Through exclusive video interviews and real-time Skype visits by senior business executives, students meet these role models and learn first-hand how they fostered cultures of innovation at their companies to stay competitive and thrive.

— Robert Smelick

Complementing your classroom experience are many hands-on opportunities to put the theories into practice, including consulting projects for Silicon Valley firms and Fortune 500 companies.

Proven Professional Expertise

Executives in Residence, visiting lecturers and guest speakers add another level to your education with their diverse industry expertise and perspectives. Top executives, consultants, veteran entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, invest- ment bankers, real estate developers and financiers share valuable insights and lessons learned.

 

Overview

Daytime MBA Program Overview

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The UC Davis MBA prepares you to be an innovative leader with global impact. Our distinctive approach provides the strong foundation, perspective and balance you need to be an effective manager and leader in today’s business environment.

Design Your Program

Our model of management education allows you more choice in designing your program and lets you specialize in a particular area or study across a broad range of subjects.

Learn from Industry Experts

Our professors are industry experts, actively engaged with the business world through innovative research, and they share cutting-edge management ideas and practices with you in the classroom. They know how academic theory relates to real-world conditions, and they are dedicated to working directly with students to explore that practical dimension and encourage innovative ways of thinking and doing business.

Build Your Knowledge and Skills—and Put them into Action

Through our rigorous, new IMPACT-anchored curriculum, you will build a broad foundation of basic knowledge and skills—and put them into action. You’ll deepen your knowledge in business analytics, entrepreneurship, innovation, finance, accounting, general management, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy or technology management.

In a 20-week capstone consulting project course, other experiential courses and hands-on work outside the classroom, you develop your expertise to solve real-world strategic business issues. Specialized courses, independent studies and fieldwork advance your under¬standing in a selected field to prepare you for the next stage of your career. Applied courses and workshops—covering key topics such as leadership, innovation, critical thinking and communication— round out your education and career preparation.  

More about our UC Davis MBA Edge

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Featured by U.S.News Among “Top 10 Business Schools That Lead to Jobs”
93% of UC Davis MBAs hired within three months

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(Davis, CA) — The UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s full-time MBA program has been ranked among the top six percent of AACSB International-accredited programs nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest graduate business school rankings released today.

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Powerful Alumni Network
UC Davis MBAs are international business leaders, rising managers and entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries and organizations

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Since our charter class graduated more than 25 years ago, alumni from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management have been making their presence known around the world.

Our graduates are CEOs, vice presidents, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and entrepreneurs. Around the globe, they have taken prominent roles as international business leaders in a wide range of industries and organizations.

Graduate School of Management alumni are actively involved in their communities, and they make time for mentoring, advising and assisting current students and networking with fellow graduates.

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Mark Otero ‘07 Builds Sacramento’s Coolest Company
The secret of Facebook gaming mogul Mark Otero’s success is taking things to the extreme

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The secret of Midtown Sacramento’s Facebook gaming mogul Mark Otero’s success is taking things to the extreme.