Each Fall and Spring semester a cohort of around 80 MBA alumni audit graduate-level elective courses at Berkeley Haas. The MBA Alumni Audit Program is free — a benefit made possible by contributions to the Haas Annual Fund. View a list of the courses that have been offered since 2004.
Eligible* MBA alumni are invited to request to audit each semester. Space is limited each semester; a lottery will be used to select auditors and create a waiting list when required.
In June (for Fall semester) and December (for Spring semester) eligible* MBA alumni will receive two (2) emails. One will include a list of the semester’s available courses and another will arrive a week later with a link to a form and 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 June 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 [email protected].
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 emails each semester (in June for Fall and in December for Spring) alerting you when the list of courses is available to view and when can 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.
View a full list of the courses that have been offered since 2004.
Each semester the number and variety of courses offered changes and is dependent on enrolled student demand, learning space capacity, and instructor approval.
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.
At a minimum, 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 WiFi network at UC Berkeley 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 in June for Fall and in December 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 June 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 in June for Fall and in December for Spring.
After form will remain open for 72 hours. Submissions after the form closes will not be included in the lottery selection.
*MBA Alumni, from the Class of 1980 until the present, with a Bay Area primary address in the UC Berkeley constituent database as of June 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 a limited number of 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.