Berkeley Haas MBA alumni are invited to audit a graduate-level elective course at Berkeley Haas for free, either in the Fall or the Spring semester — a benefit made possible by the Haas Annual Fund.
On July 15 (for Fall semester) and December 15 (for Spring semester) eligible MBA alumni will receive an email announcing the semester’s available courses and with instructions on how to request to audit.
Eligibility is limited to MBA alumni with a primary address in the Bay Area according to the UC Berkeley alumni database as of July 1 (for Fall) and December 1 (for Spring). Please make sure your preferred email address is current in our database by updating your information at cal.berkeley.edu or emailing us at alumni@haas.berkeley.edu.
View the complete list of policies regarding the MBA Alumni Audit Program.
Who, what, when, why?
The MBA Alumni Audit Program is open to graduates of the Full-time, Evening & Weekend, and Executive (EMBA or BCEMBA) MBA Programs who are located within the Bay Area.
Each semester, MBA alumni with a primary address in the Bay Area, according to the UC Berkeley alumni database as of July 1 or December 1, eligible to audit a class at Berkeley Haas.
It depends. Each semester the number and variety of courses offered varies and is dependent on enrolled student demand, learning space capacity, and instructor approval. Many times course enrollment will be influx until after the student Add/Drop period each semester.
Only courses in the Full-time or Evening & Weekend MBA Program are available, and only a limited number of those courses will be available each semester, with a limited number of seats available for auditors.
On average, MBA electives operate at 80% capacity. However, some electives operate year after year at 100% capacity, and, therefore, have no space for auditors. Such electives have been excluded from the list of courses that may be available to auditors each semester. Some electives are cross-listed between the Full-time and Evening & Weekend MBA Programs. These appear only once, under the Evening & Weekend course number, on the list of courses that may be available to auditors each semester.
If approved for an audit, alumni must attend the first meeting of the course, identify themselves to the instructor as a possible auditor and give up their seat, if necessary, to a currently enrolled student.
Alumni auditors are expected to attend each class session.
The course instructor sets both lower and upper limits on the auditor’s participation, including but not limited to in-class discussions, team projects, and exams. Once accepted into a course, an auditor will hear directly from the instructor what these limits are. In the unlikely event that a dispute arises between an instructor and an auditor, the instructor has complete authority for resolution of the dispute.
The auditor will not receive a final grade, and the audited elective will not appear on the auditor’s transcript.
Alumni auditors will be given access to bCourses, the system used by faculty to distribute proprietary online materials. Access to bSpace, which functions as the course web site in most instances, is free of charge, and requires a Google Account.
However, alumni auditors will have to pay for access to course readers via Study.Net.
Auditors can access the public CalVisitor WiFi network but will not be able to access computers or printers within campus libraries or computer labs.
Alumni auditors will not receive access to recordings of lectures.
Auditing classes is available for Fall and Spring semesters only.
An alum may submit only one audit request per semester and may audit no more than one course per academic year.
Eligible MBA Alumni in the Bay Area* will receive emails with links to an Audit Request Form on July 15 for Fall and December 15 for Spring.
*Alumni with a primary address in the UC Berkeley constituent database as of July 1 for Fall or December 1 for Spring.
Eligible MBA Alumni in the Bay Area* will receive emails with links to an Audit Request Form on July 15 for Fall and December 15 for Spring.
*Alumni with a primary address in the UC Berkeley constituent database as of July 1 for Fall or December 1 for Spring.
Alumni will only be able to audit courses that have space available after current students have enrolled. If there are more alumni requests than spaces available in a class, a waitlist will be created with priority given via a first come, first served methodology, after application of administrative policies.
Only courses in the Full-time or Evening & Weekend MBA Program are available, and only a limited number of those courses will be available each semester, with a limited number of seats available for auditors.
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Alumni are discouraged from contacting instructors regarding their potential audit and may not audit a course without the Alumni Relations Office approval, even if they have attempted to make separate arrangements with an instructor.