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UC Davis Graduate School of Management

History

University of California, Davis is a public institution that was founded in 1908. UC Davis, one of 10 schools in the University of California system, was originally established as a farm school for UC Berkeley.

A graduate program in business at UC Davis was first proposed in 1965. Although the Board of Regents approved the program in 1966, it was not until 1978 that the Graduate School of Administration received final approval from the UC Davis campus. Established in 1981, the Graduate School of Administration became the Graduate School of Management in 1987 and began offering an MBA degree.

In the fall of 2007, UC Davis alumnus Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. and his wife, Marcia, donated $10 million to the School to help provide for a new Graduate School of Management building, which opened in 2009.

School Rankings

• U.S. News & World Report: 47 (tie)
• Bloomberg: 42
• Forbes: 56
• The Economist: 61

Location(s)

Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. Hall is home to the School’s Full-Time MBA and Master of Professional Accountancy programs. The UC Davis campus is 15 miles west of the state’s capital and nearest airport in Sacramento, and 75 miles east of San Francisco and the Bay Area. The wineries of Sonoma and the Napa Valley are about an hour’s drive to the northwest; Lake Tahoe and the ski slopes of the Sierra Nevada are two hours to the east, and the seacoast towns of Mendocino and Santa Cruz are about 150 miles to the north or south, respectively.

Part-time MBA courses are held at UC Davis’ San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento campuses.

San Francisco Bay Area campus is conveniently located at the Bishop Ranch Business Park in San Ramon, 35 miles east of San Francisco, one of the largest business parks in the nation.

The Sacramento MBA program moved to the Education Building at the UC Davis Sacramento campus in March 2010. Located just off the Capital City Freeway, the campus is convenient for many working professionals who wish to pursue a degree part-time, as it provides a wealth of employment opportunities in the thriving business region surrounding the campus.

The School also launched a year-long Master of Science in Business Analytics program in 2017 located in downtown San Francisco, the global hub of business analytics innovation.

Facilities

Featuring a striking glass-and-tile façade, state-of-the-art technology, Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. Hall is the 40,000-square-foot, LEED certified Platinum home, the first business school building in California to earn the top green building designation. High-tech facilities are designed for interactive learning experiences and integrated student and career services center for students to develop skills needed to advance their careers.

Faculty

The Graduate School of Management employs over 75 faculty members, with nearly 40 percent female professors. Ranked eighth in the world for overall quality by The Economist, UC Davis Graduate School of Management faculty members are internationally recognized researchers who are pioneers and trailblazers in their fields. They also are deeply involved in the business world through consulting assignments and innovative research, staying on the cutting-edge of management practices of leading U.S. and multinational corporations, nonprofits and public agencies.

Student Body

Over 900 students are enrolled in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s MBA, Master of Professional Accountancy, Master of Science in Business Analytics, Executive Education, and Technology Management and Accounting minor programs.

MBA Degree Offerings

The UC Davis School of Management offers a full-time, traditional MBA, at the UC Davis campus, and part-time MBA programs on Fridays and Saturdays in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Videos

UC Davis Sacramento Part-Time MBA Marks 30th Anniversary

Celebrating 30 years serving the capital region, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Sacramento Part-Time MBA Program inaugural class member Vinny Catalano MBA 97 shares about his cohort's experience, the value of the program, and his personal professional success. Looking back, the launch of then UC Davis Working Professional MBA in Sacramento was "a defining moment" for the Graduate School of Management, said then-Dean and Professor Robert Smiley. Now 30 years in, the part-time program has 1,600 graduates, many of whom live and work in the capital region. They're company and community leaders, policy influencers and trailblazing entrepreneurs making a positive impact and driving growth. Since earning his MBA in 1997, Catalano has stayed well connected to the School, volunteering as a director and president of the Graduate School of Management's Alumni Association, mentoring students, moderating alumni speaker events and emceeing GSM events—just to name a few. His peers honored him with the GSM Alumni Association’s 2008-2009 Outstanding Service Award. “Having an MBA is gold. You can’t put a dollar figure on it. It’s really for the richness of living better. You learn new things, you build a new network, you engage with people in this world in a different way by having an MBA. That is an important distinction from just any other degree—an MBA anchors you in the world in a way that I think no other degree does," — Vinny Catalano MBA 97 Most importantly, Catalano said earning an MBA allowed him to rebrand himself from an undergraduate chemistry major into a successful business leader. “Having the MBA was life-changing for me.” Learn more at: https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/sacramento-part-time-mba

UC Davis MBA Sustainable Energy Industry Immersion – Katie Sloan, Southern California Edison

The Sustainable Energy Industry Immersion at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management explores the latest trends and challenges shaping an industry at the forefront of global development, environmental conservation, national security and financial markets. Interdisciplinary team projects in every class to develop solutions to management challenges posed by executives. Katie Sloan, vice president of customer programs and services at Southern California, has presented live cases studies to students. The utility is deploying over $700 million in capital over the next five years for sustainable electrification and she challenged student teams on how to move forward with installing heat pumps and smart panel upgrades. “Students are having real-world companies that they are facing day in and day out, and they’re able to see the things that companies and industry are trying to achieve and how they can bring real-world solutions,” said Sloan.

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