Haas School of Business

The Haas School of Business

Motto	Question the Status Quo Confidence Without Attitude Students Always Beyond Yourself
Type	Public business school Funded by student tuition and alumni donations
Established	1898
Parent institution	University of California, Berkeley
Endowment	$253 million
Dean	Richard Lyons
Academic staff	209
Undergraduates	700
Postgraduates	1,564
Doctoral students	80
Location	Berkeley, California, U.S.
Website	www.haas.berkeley.edu

Business school rankings
Worldwide MBA
Business Insider	10
Economist	7
Financial Times	7
U.S. MBA
Bloomberg Businessweek	10
Forbes	8
U.S. News & World Report	7
Vault	10
U.S. undergraduate
U.S. News & World Report	2

Question the Status Quo Confidence Without Attitude Students Always

The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley.

The school is situated in three connected buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the Berkeley campus. The final design of architect Charles Moore, the mini-campus was completed in 1995. The school is planning to expand its facilities with a new commons building shared with the Berkeley School of Law. It consistently ranks as one of the top ten business schools in worldwide rankings published by The Economist, Financial Times, US News & World Report, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

The Haas School of Business was first established as the College of Commerce of the University of California in 1898. The University of California charter, adopted in 1868, included among its goals the study of commerce. University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A.S. Hallidie and George T. Marye Jr. later proposed the establishment of a College of Commerce. The new college was founded on September 13, 1898, when Cora Jane Flood, daughter of industrialist and University of California Regent James C. Flood, donated land (worth one million dollars at the time) to the University specifically to support the study of commerce. The school was the third collegiate business school in the United States and the first at a public university.

The college’s first faculty members included some American pioneers in the field of business. Simon Litman taught the first course in marketing between 1902 and 1908. Adolph Miller, who was the Flood Professor of the Political Economy and Commerce from 1903 to 1915, later served on the first Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Wesley Clair Mitchell, who taught at Berkeley from 1905 to 1913, is known as the father of the business cycle analysis. Charles Staehling taught accounting at the college from 1921–51 and was known for adding a theoretical framework to the praxis-oriented teaching of accounting principles. Henry Mowbray, who taught from 1910 to 1948, wrote the first college textbook on insurance.

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