In addition to its full-time and evening and weekend MBA programs, the University of California's Haas School of Business also offers an executive MBA program in partnership with Columbia University in New York. In the program, known as the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, students can earn degrees from each school in 19 months (two months less than it takes to earn an MBA under the full-time program). Whatever MBA program you choose, you can rest assured that all your questions will be answered in a manner befitting of the era: students can go to theberkeleymba.blogspot.com for official answers in a medium suiting the information age.

If you decide to apply to Haas, students say the best advice is to 'be genuine' on your application essays. 'The best thing you can do for yourself is to be authentic and not try to write what you think they want to hear,' one student says. Once you're in, 'the workload in the first semester can be tough, but that might be partially due to transitioning back into the classroom' our average student is 28 years old,' another student notes. But when it comes to grading, the students have more control: each incoming class votes on whether or not to have a non-disclosure grading policy.