UC Berkeley
• Founded in 1868
• Flagship campus of the
University of California
• 33,933 students from 101
countries
• 23,863 undergraduate
students
• 10,070 graduate students
• 1,953 faculty members
• Nearly 340 degree programs
• Over 436,000 alumni
worldwide
• 1,232 acre campus
Master of Financial Engineering Program
The Berkeley Advantage
Consistently ranked one of the top business schools in the country, the Haas School of Business has a solid reputation for quality and leadership. The business school at The University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1898, making it the second oldest collegiate business school in the United States, and the first at a public university. Rank, reputation, and experience combine to offer Haas students a rich spectrum of quality resources, noteworthy events, and high-profile speakers.
A University Second to None
In addition to attending a premier business school, Haas students join the larger community at one of the most esteemed universities in the world. The mission of the University of California is to excel in research, teaching, and public service. Over the decades, this mission has developed a culture at UC Berkeley that stimulates greatness.
With the Berkeley MFE program, you earn a degree from a university whose name and reputation open doors around the globe. The proof is in the university's distinguished record of Nobel-level scholarship, constant innovation, concern for the betterment of our world, and consistently high rankings of its schools and departments.
Since its founding in 1868, UC Berkeley has grown with the rapidly expanding population of California and responded to the educational needs of the developing state. By the 1930's, research at UC Berkeley burgeoned in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, leading to the development of the first cyclotron, the isolation of the human poliovirus, and the discovery of all the artificial elements heavier than uranium, including Berkelium and Californium. Twenty members of the UC Berkeley faculty have been awarded Nobel prizes for these and subsequent achievements in science, literature, and economics. Today, according to the National Research Council, UC Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields. In fact, 97% of the university's programs made the top 10 list.
UC Berkeley Academic and Faculty Distinctions
- Ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top ten in their fields (National Research Council)
- The only university with Ph.D. programs ranked in the top five across all 15 categories in the 2006 edition of US News and World Report's listing of top graduate schools
- The only university with Ph.D. programs ranked in the top five across all 15 categories in the 2006 edition of US News and World Report's listing of top graduate schools
- Ranked #2 in the nation in the 2006 Washington Monthly College Rankings based on three main criteria: performance as an engine of social mobility, research output, and promotion of a service ethic
- The leading institution in awarding doctoral degrees to minorities and women
- 21 Nobel Prize laureates (including Haas Professor Oliver Williamson and the late Haas Professor John Harsanyi)
- 201 American Association for the Advancement of Science Awards
- 229 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Awards
- 76 Fulbright Scholars
- 383 Guggenheim Fellows
- 28 MacArthur Fellows
- 85 National Academy of Engineering Awards
- 131 National Academy of Sciences Awards
- 14 National Medal of Science Awards
- 92 Sloan Fellows
- 5 Wolf Prizes
- 3 Pulitzer Prizes
- 1 National Poet Laureate
