April (December Graduates)
- If needed, participate in Summer Registration and/or Fall Add/Drop to complete your class schedule. Please refer to the Registration Timeline for dates.
August-September
- For students completing their graduation requirements in Summer or Fall, check your transcript and current schedule to ensure you have met your graduation requirements. A good tool is the EWMBA Degree Check.
- For students completing their graduation requirements in Spring, be sure to participate in Fall Add/Drop and check your unit count for your remaining semesters.
December (December Graduates)
- Claim your @berkeley.edu email account (this includes aliases such as your @mba). View instructions here. Need Help? Contact: helpdesk@haas.berkeley.edu.
- Check your diploma address in CalCentral (see Diplomas below).
January
- If needed, participate in Spring Add/Drop to complete your class schedule. Please refer to the Registration Timeline for the Add/Drop schedule.
- Deadline for Spring semester fees is mid-January.
February
- Check your transcript and current schedule to ensure you have met your graduation requirements. A good tool is the EWMBA Degree Check.
- Plan to attend Commencement at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley in May. Tickets are required for the ceremony, but you may invite an unlimited number of guests. More information on ticketing will be forthcoming. A reception will follow; please see commencement details for more details about reception tickets.
- Check CalCentral to ensure you have met your graduation requirements.
March
- Record your name in Name Coach so that the Commencement announcers have a reference for how to pronounce your name. In bCourses, look for “Name Coach Roster” and record how your name should be pronounced. Video tutorial here.
- Finish entering your community service hours in the Haas Student Directory in order to be eligible for recognition as a Beyond Yourself Fellow for completion of 60 or more hours of community service during your time at Haas. Submission deadline will be in mid April.
April
- Order your cap & gown for the commencement ceremony, or pick it up from the student store. (More instructions on the Commencement Ceremony page)
- Complete the Commencement Survey (coming soon) (name for program, vote for the student speaker, reception guest count). Be on the look for an email with this information.
- Attend a Loan Repayment Workshop in-person or via webinar with the Haas Financial Aid Office. This is mandatory for international students who have borrowed a no-cosigner loan. (An upcoming email will provide dates and details.)
- Create your “Diploma Address” in CalCentral via the instructions under “Check my Diploma Mailing Address” in the Registrar’s site. Diplomas will be mailed automatically (see below).
May
- Claim your @berkeley email address
- Set-up email forwarding for your @mba.berkeley.edu or @berkeley.edu email accounts. View instructions here. Need Help? Contact: helpdesk@haas.berkeley.edu.
- Update your Job Information and report your offers in BEARS (the Berkeley Employment & Reporting System).
Go to CareerNet > CMG BEARS (on the upper left corner of the Dashboard). Before you leave, let us know about promotions and/or job changes you’ve made since entering the program. Employment data helps Haas and classmates understand the transitions that are possible. Employment/offer data is strictly confidential and only published in aggregate.- Log in to CareerNet, click on BEARS.
- Enter your current job info and any promotions or job offers received since entering the program.
- Pick up your Commencement and Reception Tickets at WE Lead or from the EWMBA Program Office.
- Tickets are needed for the ceremony but you may invite an unlimited number of guests. More information on the
- Commencement Ceremony page.
- Seating for the ceremony is general admission. Please remember to tell your guests that the Greek Theatre is an outdoor amphitheatre and to plan appropriately.
- Reception tickets: You may enter the reception for free by wearing your cap and gown. You may invite as many additional guests as you wish for a cost of $5 each (children five and under will be admitted for free).
Resources after Graduation
Stay connected after you graduation! Check out the Alumni Benefits Handbook to learn about your benefits.
Graduates will continue to have access to all bConnected applications provided they claim their @berkeley.edu account via the @cal Alumni Network. Any associated aliases, e.g. @mba.berkeley.edu, will also be retained.
FAQ available on the Haas Alumni Relations page here.
Claim your @berkeley on the @cal Alumni website here.
Alumni will also retain unlimited file storage on bDrive and access to Box. Alumni may be asked to renew their @cal account once every 5 years. The long term policy is still being drafted. It is recommended that you back-up all of your files on bDrive.
bCourses access is connected with the CalNet ID, which is active until 9 months upon graduation. However, some professors have set their courses to expire after a certain amount of time, eg. at the end of the semester. Therefore, students should download the materials they wish to refer to now.
Students’ CalNet ID is in active status until 9 months after graduation, when it will then transition to alumni status.
Once CalNet converts to alumni status, one can still login to CalCentral, but only services available for alumni will be usable.
Alumni will have access to alumni career resources, including MBA CareerNet, workshops and events, and advising.
Graduates should update their job information and report offers in BEARS (the Berkeley Employment & Reporting System). Go to CareerNet > CMG BEARS (on the upper left corner of the Dashboard) and input promotions and/or job changes made since entering the program. Employment/offer data is strictly confidential and only published in aggregate.
The Haas login will expire 3 months after graduation. Graduates will have access to the Haas Computer Lab through September 30.
The degree conferral process takes about 2-3 months.
- For December graduates, the transcript will state the degree conferral date in March. Diplomas will be mailed out in April.
- For May graduates, the transcript will state the degree conferral date in August. Diplomas will be mailed out in September.
Once conferred, the degree will be automatically mailed, free of charge, to the address supplied by students on CalCentral.
If students did not enter a diploma mailing address in CalCentral, the Registrar will mail the diploma to the home address. For more information, please visit Diplomas & Graduation.
**Students must check the billing summary and address any remaining balance by December or May. Any unpaid fees will impact the degree conferral.
If you require documentation of prior to the official transcript or diploma, students may submit a request for Certificate of Degree Completion (Electronic Request) from Graduate Division. This may take up to 10 days to process and cannot be completed until the Capstone requirement in CalCentral has been marked as “Completed” with a green check mark. To check whether this has posted, log in to CalCentral > My Academics > Degree Progress > Evening & Weekend MBA — Graduate Division Milestones > Capstone. Please note that the Capstone may not appear until January for December graduates and June for May graduates, after final degree checks have been made.
The Capstone requirements for EWMBA students are to have passed WE Innovate: MPAR and completed all graduation requirements.
Remote access to library databases is available through the end of the semester in which the student graduates. With Cal Alumni membership, graduates may borrow books from any UC library, though, it does NOT give remote access to databases. Many databases may be used on the public computers in the library on a walk-in basis. Due to licensing limitations, a number of business databases are for current students only.
Please be sure to return all books checked out from the library. Any questions, please contact: msingh@library.berkeley.edu, 510-643-0528.
Access to the Student Directory will expire 3 months after graduation. Alumni may connect with other MBAs via LinkedIn or the @cal Alumni Directory.
Student accounts remain active unless the user specifically requests to have it deleted. Graduates will be able to login locally to study.net after graduation using their registered email account. Accounts use the @berkeley.edu email address. Content that is visible within study.net will be removed about 90-120 days after the end of the semester or sooner if the faculty owner removes it. It is recommended to download all study.net materials to refer to in the future.