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model focuses on a clearly perceived need for innovative, highly skilled leadership in
experience that is integrated and collaborative, that educates managers and leaders
who are bilingual in business and science and who are ready to have an impact in their
We aim to be different – and extraordinary. Where will you see those differences? In our
integration with the UC San Diego campus, in the focus on innovation in our MBA
curriculum, in the resounding vote of confidence we have received from the business
community, in the reputations of our founding faculty, in the intellectual capabilities and
creativity of our students. We are passionate about our mission, and we are looking for
students who share our passion and who are excited about joining us in the creation of
a great institution. If our focus and our mission inspire you, we hope you will explore our
program, learn more about The Rady School, and consider joining us in our new venture.
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THE RADY SCHOOL DEVELOPS INNOVATORS INTO
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS. WE ARE
EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP
FOR INNOVATION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS, FOCUSED
IN THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTORS.
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Innovative. Our MBA program capitalizes on the realities for organizations driven by
extraordinary strengths of our campus science, technology, and innovation.
and of our regional business community
The Rady MBA is an integrated
in innovation and entrepreneurship,
education, built on a spirit of
particularly in science and technology.
collaboration and mutual contribution.
Rady MBAs receive a thorough
Our programs promote integration and
grounding in the fundamentals of
collaboration across disciplines and
business and management in a global
across the University, and with the
environment – and build on this with a
business community.
curriculum focused on the implications
of management principles and business
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Revolutionary.
The Rady School is rooted on a campus internationally celebrated for its success in scientific discovery and technological innovation.
Over the course of its short 40-year history, UC San Diego has established itself as a place where the extraordinary is tried and
where the willingness to fail continually results in big wins and breakthrough advances. The San Diego region is home to over 400
life sciences companies and 500 technology companies, as well as leading global research institutions such as the Salk, Scripps,
and Burnham Institutes. The vitality of the science- and technology-focused business community and the intellectual power of the
UC San Diego campus energize the School and our MBA program.
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“I was excited by the opportunity to come to a great university and help build an
innovative program that could reshape the future of business education. For me, it was
the professional chance of a lifetime.”
David A. Schkade holds the Jerome Katzin Endowed Chair at The Rady School at UC San Diego. He
has published on a variety of topics in research on human judgment and decision making. For full
faculty bios, go to: rady.ucsd.edu/faculty.shtml
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Lay the foundation for your education Core courses include:
Your Rady MBA experience begins in PreTerm, an intensive ■ Accounting
few days designed to orient you to Rady and UC San Diego, ■ Finance
introduce you to your MBA colleagues and faculty, and prepare
■ Leadership Skills, Values & Team Management
you for the plunge into Fall quarter coursework. One of your
in Technology-Driven Firms
core courses, Leadership Skills, Values & Team Management,
begins during PreTerm, providing the foundation for your study ■ Managerial Economics
group and focusing attention on the critical importance of ■ Marketing
leadership. ■ Operations Management
The Rady MBA core is the foundation of your education. We’ve ■ Organizational Strategy & Human Resource Management
chosen a deeper, more extensive core curriculum than you will ■ Quantitative Analysis
find in many programs. The foundation is critical: a rigorous, ■ Strategy
comprehensive core prepares you for the business challenges
■ From Lab to Market: Strategy, Accounting & Organization
you will face. In The Rady core, you will see:
for Technology Firms
■ An emphasis on innovation-driven organizations, evident
in topics, in examples and cases, and in class projects
and discussions.
■ Specific courses emphasizing the challenges business
professionals face in the technology and science sectors.
Leadership Skills, Values & Team Management in
Technology-Driven Firms and From Lab to Market look
directly at the distinctive environments and situations you
will confront.
■ A “mini-capstone,” From Lab to Market, at the conclusion of
the first-year, providing an integrated view of the business
issues surrounding new discoveries and innovative
technologies.
PreTerm Year 1, Fall Quarter Year 1, Winter Quarter Year 1, Spring Quarter
Math Review (optional) Quantitative Analysis Marketing Strategy
Orientation Managerial Economics Finance From Lab to Market: Strategy,
Leadership Skills, Values Accounting Organizational Strategy Accounting & Organization
and Team Management in Leadership Skills, Values & Human Resource for Technology Firms
Technology-Driven Firms & Team Management Management Elective
(opening session) (remaining sessions) Operations Management Professional Seminar
Professional Seminar Professional Seminar
Summer Year 2, Fall Quarter Year 2, Winter Quarter Year 2, Spring Quarter
MBA Internship Technology Workshop I Technology Workshop II Competitive Global Strategy
Human Resource Elective (project-based) Elective
Elective Regulation & Law in Elective (or extension of
Elective Technology Markets project)
Professional Seminar Marketing Elective Enterprise Innovation
Elective Professional Seminar
Professional Seminar
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MBA Tracks
Our program offers tracks to enable you to deepen your knowledge of specific industry sectors, but Rady MBA Tracks are flexible –
a roadmap or suggestion, not a requirement – maximizing your ability to create the educational program that best meets your needs.
Depending on your goals, choosing courses elsewhere at UC San Diego might be an important way to deepen your expertise in a
specific area of science or technology or to create a broad understanding of trends. Your academic and faculty advisors will work
with you as you develop your plan.
MBA Tracks build on the core and link Tracks ensure that The Rady School’s nationally, to develop an entrepreneurial
you with the innovative worlds of science- focus on innovation, discovery, and interest, or to explore the potential of a
and technology-driven business. These science and technology is expressed in new area of discovery. The project-based
tracks derive directly from San Diego’s the classroom. Each track involves a format allows you to focus on your
regional business strengths and reflect variety of components: track-specific interests and your career goals. And, if
areas of business growth and innovation modules, track-based study groups for you choose, you may extend your project
here – and around the world. They are projects or assignments, track-specific beyond a single quarter.
part of our commitment to collaboration electives.
The MBA Tracks ensure that your
and partnership with a vibrant and active
The two-quarter Technology Workshop education emphasizes material directly
business community and with centers of
sequence focuses on new developments relevant to your career goals and your
excellence across the UC San Diego
and their potential to create competitive educational needs, and that your MBA
campus.
advantage. Technology Workshop II is experience gives you solid working
Each track focuses on a sector of project-based, enabling you to take on a relationships with classmates interested
science and technology: project of significant scope. Rady MBAs in the same industries, technologies, and
use this opportunity to work individually issues. The result? Your learning – and
■ Communications and Information
or with classmates on projects of critical your network – are enhanced.
Technology
importance for businesses regionally and
■ Life and Health Sciences
Innovati
“I am energized by the business leaders who believe our focus and our
mission are critically important. We are shaping a program for the best and
brightest students, developing them as leaders for the kinds of innovation-
driven organizations that are passionately interested in The Rady School.”
Julie Sullivan joined UC San Diego in July 2003 as a full professor in The Rady School
with a joint appointment in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Professor Sullivan is an internationally known scholar and educator in accounting and
taxation. Her research focuses on global accounting and tax planning issues. For full
faculty bios, go to: rady.ucsd.edu/faculty.shtml
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Focus and Refine
Rady MBA electives give you the ability to fine-tune your program to meet your
educational goals. We focus on the knowledge and skills critical for leaders in
innovation-driven organizations. The elective curriculum includes courses designed to
support The Rady MBA Tracks in Communications and Information Technology and in
Life and Health Sciences, as well as other courses particularly important to those
working in technology- or innovation-driven environments.
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Innovation is UC San Diego’s tradition
UC San Diego is a powerful magnet for those seeking a fresh, next-generation approach to education and research, and Rady MBAs
experience an integrated education based on collaborations across departmental boundaries, without an inhibiting, "siloed"
environment. Since its founding four decades ago, UC San Diego – one of the ten campuses in the world-renowned University of
California system – has rapidly achieved the status of one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and research. Our
interdisciplinary ethos and tradition of innovation and risk-taking underlie our research strength and our ability to recruit top scholars
and students.
Ten UC San Diego faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize, with five of them currently on the UC San Diego faculty team. The
University ranks 6th in the nation in the number of faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Research
Council, the most respected guide to academic excellence, ranks UC San Diego 10th in the nation in the quality of its faculty and
graduate programs.
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Collaborate and Learn Across the University
The Rady School provides an Rady MBAs will also learn about cutting- Cal-(IT)2 to the University’s Technology
atmosphere of strong integration and a edge research occurring here on the UC Transfer group to the Von Leibig Center
spirit of mutual contribution with globally San Diego campus – what is happening for Enterpreneurism and Technology
ranked UC San Diego programs in a in the worlds of science and technology Advancement at the Jacobs School of
wide range of areas of study. Rady that will impact business, and what Engineering.
MBAs may take classes in other discoveries might drive new products,
graduate programs on campus and will new services, new models for business.
interact with other graduate students for And you will get to know campus
projects, to build vibrant professional resources and programs that impact
networks that span disciplines – and to innovation-driven companies. You will
have fun and make new friends. gain exposure to everything from
UC San Diego
■ Over 23,000 students, including 4,000
graduate students
■ Located on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland
along the Pacific Ocean
■ Ranks 6th in the nation in National
Academy of Sciences membership
■ Ranked by U.S. News and World Report as
the 8th best public university in the nation
■ Includes renowned schools and centers like:
San Diego Supercomputer Center; Scripps
Institution of Oceanography; California
Institute for Information Technology and
Telecommunications Cal-(IT)2; School of
Medicine; Center for Research in Computing
and the Arts; Jacobs School of Engineering;
Institute of the Americas
■ Ranked by the National Science Foundation
as 5th in the nation in federal R&D
expenditures
■ Faculty and alumni have spun-off close to
200 local companies, including over a third
of the region’s biotech companies
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Develop as a Leader
The Rady School is focused on developing
leaders, and our program reflects this.
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Connect and Collaborate with the Business Community
Rady MBAs have unique opportunities to interact with the San Diego business community – and to build networks in innovation-
driven organizations across California, throughout the West, and beyond. How will you make the connections important for your future?
■ Attend a session with one of the ■ Take part in The Rady Mentor
many executive speakers who visit Program, which matches students to
The Rady School – you’ll see senior executives in a wide range of
executives providing their business businesses.
perspective in classes in all ■ Take on a project offered through
disciplines as well as in the the Beyster Institute, working with
Professional Seminar series, a company locally, nationally, or
participating in events organized by internationally.
student groups, and speaking to
■ Meet and work with Rady FlexMBAs.
Rady students, faculty and business
FlexMBAs at Rady are working
community supporters at major
professionals who represent a range
events sponsored by the School.
of companies in biotech,
■ Choose a project in the industry pharmaceuticals and medical
sector of most interest to you. Both devices, wireless, information
in the Technology Workshop and in technology, electronic equipment,
various other courses, you’ll identify entertainment, health care,
organizations and projects that propel consulting… and more. You’ll have a
your education and your career variety of opportunities to meet them
forward. informally and to work with them on
programs and projects.
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Create Your Future
Where are you headed? How will your contributions and your leadership impact the
organizations where you work? What impact will you have in business and in the world?
Envision your future then create it. MBA Key resources to energize your career
Career Connections partners with Rady include:
MBAs to make the future happen.
■ CareerLeader™, an online career
Through personal coaching, an array
assessment developed at Harvard
of programs and resources, and a
Business School and used by top
commitment to creating access to
MBA programs in the U.S. and
opportunities, MBA Career Connections
Europe
enhances your potential for success.
■ Individual career coaching, including
Before PreTerm, you’ll complete an resume reviews and mock interviews
extensive career assessment, developed
■ Resume database for recruiter review
specifically for MBAs and designed to
provide you with the strongest possible ■ Internship and career postings
foundation for building your career ■ On-campus interviewing
portfolio. You’ll begin development of ■ Company briefings and career forums
your personal Rady MBA plan during ■ Connections with industry
PreTerm, working with both academic associations
advisors and career coaches. The goal?
■ The Rady Mentor Program
To ensure that you are taking advantage
of the opportunities and resources ■ UC San Diego alumni network
available and that you develop the
portfolio of skills, experiences, and
contacts that will enable you to achieve
your goals.
■ Home to over 400 life sciences companies and 500 technology companies
■ The third largest concentration of biotech companies in the United States,
ranking first in research and development output in a 2004 study
■ The highest number of science-based Nobel Prize winners in the world
■ The second largest concentration of communications firms in the country
■ More fiber optic cable in the ground than any other region in the country
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Be Part of Something New
Are you an innovator? A leader? Ready to make an impact? As a Rady MBA, you are not just a student, you are a stakeholder in
a great new venture in management education and a partner in creating a program and a community. You have the tremendous
advantages of a distinguished university, with resources, programs, and activities that will enhance your experience and expand
your network of friends and colleagues. And you have the opportunity and the excitement of working with us to build an experience,
a student culture and student organizations.
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Join Us
We are looking for intelligent risk-takers who are determined to make an impact — people who demonstrate passion, understanding
and focus on working in the science or technology industries. We want to see the excitement and the energy you will bring to Rady.
Rady MBAs are intellectually capable, have the potential to be managers, leaders, and innovators in business and the community.
They see the benefits of a Rady MBA for their careers and plan to be active contributors in the classroom, in their study groups and
teams, in The Rady School community, and beyond. We are looking for students who are excited about partnering in the creation
of their own education, who are ready to accelerate their careers, and who will be stakeholders in the distinguished educational
institution we are building. We hope you will investigate further and consider joining us.
The Admissions Committee undertakes ■ Academic preparedness. Are you does not require professional work
a comprehensive review of each intellectually and academically experience; however, we believe that
application. No single element takes prepared for the MBA curriculum? some prior experience in organizations
precedence, and there are no specific Do you demonstrate the analytical, and teams is critical to your learning
cut-offs or minimums. The Committee quantitative and verbal skills in the MBA program. Most members of
evaluates several key criteria, each necessary for academic success? the class will have post-undergraduate
assessed through several components of ■ Readiness for the MBA. What are your professional experience.
the application and further explored in career aspirations and your potential ■ Personal attributes critical for
the Admissions Interview. Admissions to take on leadership roles? How is business success and for success
interviews are by invitation; all students The Rady MBA relevant? We assess in the program. Do you demonstrate
admitted to the program will be professional and organizational key attributes like personal integrity,
interviewed. experience in terms of scope or communication skills, interpersonal
level of responsibility, evidence of and teamwork skills, motivation
contribution or success, and evidence and initiative, creativity and
of career progression or of growth in resourcefulness, leadership skills?
responsibility. The Full-Time MBA
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Investing in Your Future:
Financial Aid
Your MBA is an investment of time, energy, and money.
Thinking through how you will finance your studies is an
important part of your decision-making process. The
Rady School is committed to helping you think through
your options, providing resources and advice to assist
you with your financial decisions.
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Explore The Rady School
Visit our website for more information on the School and our programs: www.theradyschool.ucsd.edu
See the latest news about the School and read what the press is saying about us: rady.ucsd.edu/news.shtml
If you are a working professional considering part-time MBA study, find out about our FlexMBA program: rady.ucsd.edu/flexmba.shtml
Connect with us
We welcome the opportunity to meet you individually and help you explore your opportunities. Join us at an Information Session on
campus, visit with us at an MBA Forum, or connect with us via one of our online sessions. For a schedule of events, see
rady.ucsd.edu/prostu.shtml.
Come see us in San Diego. If you plan to be in the area and would like to visit the UC San Diego campus and talk with us, please
contact us at MBAAdmissions@ucsd.edu.
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yourself.
Nondiscrimination Statement
The University of California, in compliance with Titles VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin,
religion, sex, disability, or age in any of its policies, procedures, or practices; nor does the university discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. This nondiscrimination
policy covers admission and access to, and treatment and employment in, university programs and activities, including but not limited to, academic admission, financial
aid, educational services, and student employment. Inquiries regarding the university's equal opportunity policies may be directed to the campus compliance coordinator,
(858) 534-6861.
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University of California, San Diego
MBA Admissions
The Rady School of Management
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0093
La Jolla, CA 92093-0093
MBAAdmissions@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-0864
www.theradyschool.ucsd.edu
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