<p>okay, we just had a thread discussing best undergraduate business programs in california so let’s start one examining graduate programs. let’s focus on master’s degree programs to start.</p>
<p>consider:</p>
<li><p>breadth and depth of program</p></li>
<li><p>placement records in all areas of business</p></li>
<li><p>quality of student body</p></li>
<li><p>quality of faculty</p></li>
<li><p>niches/innovation beyond the usual MBA</p></li>
<li><p>strength/reputation of the greater university to support</p></li>
</ol>
<p>how about rank ordering california privates, UCs, and CSUs in separate categories?</p>
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<p>haas and anderson are obviously by far the best among the UC system and are two of the top b-schools in the nation. </p>
<p>davis and irvine (merage) are supposed to be the next best ones, but i think they're very regionally oriented since i live in socal and dont hear much about davis. merage seems promising and is doing a lot to boost their program and ranking, but it's still going through some growing pains. </p>
<p>UCSD (rady) is relatively new, and its strength is oriented towards the san diego economy (e.g. biotech management). </p>
<p>riverside (anderson) doesnt get much publicity... i'd say it's slightly better than most CSUs, but one could argue that cal poly (orfalea) or SDSU are as good if not slightly better. </p>
<p>most CSUs are about the same, with some just marginally better than others, and many of them are very locally oriented, so pick the one that's located in where you want to work, and it should be about as advantageous as if you went to cal poly (orfalea) or SDSU. </p>
<p>btw if you're in socal, claremont (drucker) is very underrated and is a solid option, and pepperdine (graziadio) is also a pretty popular choice after the big 4 (stanford, haas, anderson, marshall)</p>
<p>UC business program admissions trump CSU but I don't know why CSU business programs have more business accrediations than UC</p>
<p>Here is the list ....
University of California - Berkeley - Haas School of Business - Berkeley
University of California - Davis - Graduate School of Management - Davis
University of California - Irvine - Graduate School of Management - Irvine
University of California - Los Angeles - The Anderson School - Los Angeles
University of California - Riverside - The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management - Riverside
University of California - Santa Barbara - Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management - Santa Barbara </p>
<p>UCSD Rady Business program focuses more on the biotech business & biosector companies in the neighboring San Diego region. </p>
<p>I would add USC & Pepperdine to that list as well...</p>
<p>Ranking estimates in terms of recognition.... </p>
<p>Standford
Berkeley
UCLA
USC
Davis
Irvine
....the rest are gonna be wild gusses.....</p>
<p>*Note: MBA programs have various focus of studies.....it is possible that some CSU programs have higher focus concentration in a certain, specialized field than some UC business programs can offer.</p>
<p>i'm intrigued by your glowing report about the stanford faculty. what sets them apart from the rest? and why is marshall nowhere in the conversation?</p>
<p>Marshall is good, but it doesn't get as much of recognition at graduate level than it does at undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Stanford/Haas (I say they are equal, contrary to what most people here believe)
Anderson
Marshall (yes, Marshall is below Anderson)</p>
<p>The rest aren't really considered top B-schools, even within California.
These four schools are the exceptional few out of many many schools in California that manages to get national recognition for their quality and reputation, with Stanford and Haas coming out as the top dogs.</p>