Nov. 15, 2024
Kicking off our third annual UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz, view the livestreamed video of FT San Francisco Bureau Chief Stephen Morris' exclusive interview of impact investor Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners.
Top Teams: UT Austin, Rutgers and Sac State
After four rounds and hundreds of questions at Saturday's UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz, the UT Austin team came out on top; Rutgers won a nail-biting tiebreaker to take second and Sac State placed third. View the Final Round and Awards Ceremony
Award recognizes outstanding research in information systems
Assistant Professor Helen Zeng has been honored with the best 2024 Ph.D. dissertation award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society for her paper on child sexual abuse materials and human trafficking (especially the trafficking of minors) on digital platforms.
Looking back: “A defining moment" for the Graduate School of Management
Now 30 years in, the Sacramento Part-Time MBA program has 1,600 graduates, many of whom live and work in the capital region. They're company and community leaders, policy influencers and trailblazing entrepreneurs making a positive impact and driving growth.
Distinguished honor recognizes significant contributions to operations research, analytics and INFORMS
UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor David L. Woodruff, renowned for his work in business analytics, has been named to the 2024 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the field of operations research and analytics.
Faculty among the top 15% globally for research impact
The UC Davis Full-Time MBA ranks among the top 25 programs at U.S. public universities, in the top 50 overall and among the top third for employability of graduates, according to the 2025 QS MBA rankings.
Plus, No. 4 worldwide for “Value for the Money”; top 20 overall in U.S. and top 40 worldwide
The UC Davis Master of Science in Business Analytics is once again the No. 1 program in the world for return on investment for the degree, an honor it has held for the third consecutive year in the QS rankings.
Igniting interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of AI and society
“We have the opportunity to ask critical questions about how screenwriters’ work is changing in response to the challenges of generative AI in the film and television industry," says Professor Beth Bechky.
School welcomes experts in AI, machine learning and data analytics methods
With Ph.D.’s from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, the University of Michigan and the University of Washington, the foursome shares a common interest in quantitative methods spanning big data, machine learning and AI in their research specializations.
QS Online MBA 2024 Rankings
The first-of-its-kind in the University of California system, the UC Davis Online MBA program ranks No. 7 in North America and No. 13 globally in the latest QS rankings released on April 24, 2024.
Sacramento and Bay Area Programs
For the sixth year in a row, the UC Davis Part-Time MBA offered in Sacramento and San Ramon in the San Francisco Bay Area ranks among the top 20 programs at public institutions.
Creating opportunities for the military community
Reflecting a commitment to students and alumni in the U.S. military, the UC Davis GSM is ranked No. 8 among graduate schools and the only University of California graduate school among the top 10 in Military Friendly's latest survey.
Graduate School of Management will confer the degree
UC Davis will welcome its first cohort of students to a new undergraduate business major in the fall of 2025. The major is a partnership between the GSM, College of Letters and Science, and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Program ranks No. 42 overall, No. 31 among public universities
The UC Davis Online MBA program, the first and only online MBA in the University of California system, is ranked among the best online MBA programs in the nation by U.S.News & World Report.
Alliance highlights benefits of new Master of Management
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management becomes the official Higher Education Partner of the Sacramento Kings and Golden 1 Center, and the partnership will highlight benefits of the new Master of Management program as well internship opportunities for UC Davis MBA students, and more.
Mash up of Financial Times, U.S. News, Bloomberg, LinkedIn and Princeton Review
The Poets&Quants 2023-2024 MBA rankings combines the most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S. News & World Report, The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and for the first time LinkedIn‘s debut MBA ranking and Princeton Review‘s annual list of the best.
Top 5 on West Coast for recent alumni satisfaction measures
The UC Davis Online MBA program, the first and only online MBA in the University of California system, has been ranked among the top 20 in Poets&Quants 2024 list of “The Best Online MBA Programs in the U.S."
QS 2024 Global MBA Rankings
QS rated full-time MBA programs in the U.S. based on five weighted factors: Employability, Return on Investment, Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes, Thought Leadership, Class and Faculty Diversity.
Plus, No. 2 worldwide for “Value for the Money” in 2024 rankings
The UC Davis MSBA Class of 2022 showed record-breaking career placement success as strong demand continues for business-savvy data analysts, with average starting salaries of over $131,000 and average bonus of $19,000.
INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) President's Service Award
"This is a community which has given me an incredible amount—an intellectual home, inspirational ideas, academic colleagues and collaborators, deep friendships and much more," said Bhargava.