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. Space is limited each semester; a lottery will be used to select auditors and create a waiting list when required.
On July 15 (for Fall semester) and December 15 (for Spring semester) eligible* MBA alumni will receive an email at 9:00am Pacific Time announcing the semester’s available courses and with instructions on how to request to audit.
*Eligibility is limited to graduates of the Full-time, Evening & Weekend, and Executive (EMBA and BCEMBA) MBA Programs. To ensure you are alerted when courses are available to audit, please opt into the MBA Alumni Audit Email List.
Note: MBA graduates, from the Class of 1980 until the present, with a primary address in the Bay Area according to the UC Berkeley alumni database as of July 1 (for Fall) or December 1 (for Spring) and graduates of the Executive MBA Program (EMBA) are automatically added to the MBA Alumni Audit Email List. 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: Policies regarding the MBA Alumni Audit Program. Recording Notice regarding MBA elective courses.
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.
Please opt into the MBA Alumni Audit Email list to ensure that you receive an email each semester (July 15 for Fall and December 15 for Spring) alerting you when the list of courses is available to view and request to audit.
Note: MBA alumni, from the Class of 1980 until the present, with a primary address in the Bay Area, according to the UC Berkeley alumni database as of July 1 or December 1, and graduates for the Executive MBA Program (EMBA) are automatically added to the MBA Alumni Audit Email List.
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.
Alumni auditors are expected to attend each class session.
The course instructor sets both the 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 bCourses, 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.
In most. cases, 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* will receive emails with links to an Audit Request Form on July 15 for Fall and December 15 for Spring.
*MBA Alumni, from the Class of 1980 until the present, with a Bay Area primary address in the UC Berkeley constituent database as of July 1 for Fall or December 1 for Spring, EMBA graduates, and opted-in members of the MBA Alumni Audit Email List.
Eligible MBA Alumni* will receive emails with links to an Audit Request Form on July 15 for Fall and December 15 for Spring.
The request form will remain open for 48 hours.
*MBA Alumni, from the Class of 1980 until the present, with a Bay Area primary address in the UC Berkeley constituent database as of July 1 for Fall or December 1 for Spring, EMBA graduates, and opted-in members of the MBA Alumni Audit Email List.
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, requests to audit will be determined via lottery; when applicable the lottery will also determine the waiting list order.
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.