TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: Yes
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $9,000,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
Haas School of Business integrates technology throughout the curriculum and in the daily activities of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. As part of our emphasis on active collaboration, we continually engage our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliates, in the research, development, evaluation, and deployment of new technologies and potential uses, as well as enabling the community to play a crucial role in refining the deployment and use of existing technologies and services. During the last three years, the school has achieved significant improvements to its technology infrastructure and services, and offered several new services.
Major recent successes have had a positive impact in making technology ubiquitous in the following areas: Technology and the Curriculum; Development/acquisition and deployment of instructional support tools, such as simulations, games, and interactive web-based applications; classroom technology improvements have included upgrading all classrooms; Technology and Research: The Haas School will soon deploy a new research lab to leverage Berkeley's unique strengths in the area of Behavioral and Experimental Economics; High-Availability Infrastructure Services: The Haas School has achieved system availability of 99.99%, as a result of significant investments in high-availability technologies; Remote Connectivity Services for Any-time, Any-where Access:
Students have remote access to applications and services any-time, any-where, remotely, through the use of Terminal Services, the Business Library Proxy Service, and WebMail;
Industry-leading applications and data services; Focus on Customer Service and Systems Improvements; Enhancements to web-based student services applications; and Communications and Collaboration Enhancements.
The Haas School redesigned its website, incorporating the use of dynamic content management and integration with the MyHaas Portal.
CAREER SERVICES
Do part-time MBA students have access to the career-development office? Yes
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At what point?
At any time
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| Estimated percentage of part-time students that change careers during their studies | 20% |
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, alongside full-time students, for summer internships? No
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, next to full-time students, for full-time jobs? Yes
Part-time students included in resume drops before recruiters visit campus? Yes
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
B-school offers placement services for part-time MBA alumni? Yes
Alumni networking Web site:
http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumni
Current part-time MBAs given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 13,227 executive MBA degrees, and 13,227 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 12,798 living MBA alumni, and 63 MBA clubs throughout 31 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 15% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $100, and a mean gift of U.S. $526. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million between Jan. 2001 and Oct. 2003, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $112,076,154
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Ute Frey
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