Essays help us learn about who you are as a person and how you will add to our community. We seek candidates from a broad range of industries, backgrounds, cultures, and lived experiences.
Our distinctive culture is defined by four key principles - Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. We encourage you to reflect on your experiences, values, and passions so that you may craft thoughtful and authentic responses that demonstrate your alignment with our principles.
Below are the required essays, supplemental essays, and optional essays for the Fall 2024-2025 application cycle.
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Required Essay #1
What makes you feel alive when you are doing it, and why?
(300 words max)
Required Essay #2
What are your short-term and long-term career goals, and how will an MBA from Haas help you achieve those goals?
Short-term career goals should be achievable within 3-5 years post-MBA, whereas long-term goals may span a decade or more and encompass broader professional aspirations.
Experience with Diversity, Equity or Inclusion
One of our goals at Berkeley Haas is to develop leaders who value diversity and to create an inclusive environment in which people from different ethnicities, genders, lived experiences, and national origins feel welcomed and supported.
Describe any experience or exposure you have in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging whether through community organizations, personal, or in the workplace?
Candidates seeking consideration for mission-aligned fellowships may use this space to reflect on their commitment to the mission of those fellowships.
Video Essay
The Berkeley MBA program develops leaders who embody our four Defining Leadership Principles . Briefly introduce yourself to the admissions committee, explain which Defining Leadership Principle resonates most with you, and tell us how you have exemplified the principle in your personal or professional life.
Please review the Defining Leadership Principles in advance and take time to prepare your answer before recording. You will be able to test your audio-visual connection before recording. Video essays should last 1-2 minutes and may not exceed 2 minutes.
Optional Essays
The admissions team takes a holistic approach to application review and seeks to understand all aspects of a candidate’s character, qualifications, and experiences. We will consider achievements in the context of the opportunities available to a candidate. Some applicants may have faced hardships or unusual life circumstances, and we will consider the maturity, perseverance, and thoughtfulness with which they have responded to and/or overcome them.
Optional Information #1
We invite you to help us better understand the context of your opportunities and achievements.
Optional Information #2
This section should only be used to convey relevant information not addressed elsewhere in your application. This may include explanation of employment gaps, academic aberrations, supplemental coursework, etc. You are encouraged to use bullet points where appropriate.
Supplemental Information
- If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain. If not applicable, enter N/A.
- Name of organization or activity
- Nature of organization or activity
- Size of organization
- Dates of involvement
- Offices held
- Average number of hours spent per week
- List full-time and part-time jobs held during undergraduate or graduate studies indicating the employer, job title, employment dates, location, and the number of hours worked per week for each position held prior to the completion of your degree.
- If you have ever been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation, suspended, or required to withdraw from any college or university, please explain. If not, please enter N/A. (An affirmative response to this question does not automatically disqualify you from admission.)
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First-Year Admissions
How to apply.
Thank you for considering the M.E.T. program for your next big academic and entrepreneurial step. You may want to begin by watching our informative First-Year Admissions webinar below.
Once you’re ready to apply:
- Begin with a visit to admissions.berkeley.edu to become familiar with admission requirements and the selection process. From there, you can launch your UC application .
- Then, visit the admissions pages of the College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business to learn what we’re looking for in applicants. Think about how your achievements and personal qualities position you for success in the M.E.T. program.
- Read about the additional M.E.T.-specific admissions requirements below.
Berkeley M.E.T. Info Session
Join us to learn about the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program in the College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. We will provide an overview of the incoming first-year admissions process for high school students and for anyone else interested in learning more about Berkeley M.E.T.
Watch Our First-Year Admissions Webinar
Note: As of Monday, October 30, 2023 video essays are mandatory.
Additional M.E.T. Admissions Requirements
Select an Academic Track
First-year applicants can earn simultaneous B.S. degrees in one of the following tracks:
- Engineering Undeclared + Business
- Aerospace Engineering + Business
- Bioengineering + Business
- Civil Engineering + Business
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences + Business
- Industrial Engineering & Operations Research + Business
- Materials Science & Engineering + Business
- Mechanical Engineering + Business
You must choose one of the eight M.E.T. engineering tracks under the College of Engineering or Berkeley-Haas. It doesn’t matter which college you select M.E.T. major offerings through – your selection will be captured.
Supplemental Essay
Once you submit your application, you’ll receive an additional email from UC Berkeley’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions asking you to write and submit a supplemental essay about your interest in M.E.T. Expect to receive this email in early December. From there, you’ll have until 11:59pm PST on December 15, 2024 to submit your supplemental essay. Failure to submit your essay by the deadline will remove you from consideration to the M.E.T. Program.
Applications for admission to M.E.T. are available beginning in October of the year prior to the year in which you’d enter UC Berkeley. The application filing period is October 1- December 2, and all applications must be submitted by December 2.
Video Essay
Applicants who submit their supplemental essay will receive a request to record a video essay. Video essay invitations will be emailed soon after the supplemental essay deadline. Videos must be submitted by 11:59 pm PST on January 3, 2025. Check your email for information and be sure to submit your video essay by the deadline, if you do not submit by the deadline you will not be considered for admission to the M.E.T. program.
Student Voices
There are so many challenges within the esports industry that are either tech or business related. You need technology advancements to push the boundaries of where esports can go, but you also need to find new marketing opportunities, like expanding into new demographics. The M.E.T. dual degree trained me for both.
Lawrence Z.
Former Finance & Operations Intern
Immortals, LLC
EECS + Business ’21
M.E.T. is a group of extremely hard-working and ambitious people, combined with an extraordinary entrepreneurial network. I want to create or join a startup, and one of the things that was really attractive about the program was that I could meet and learn from all these amazing entrepreneurs who have done exactly what I want to do.
Former Intern
Area 1 Security
We are a very cooperative and welcoming group. When you walk into the M.E.T. office, there are usually people working on projects together, and you can always ask someone to read over your essay or help you debug some code. Everyone is willing to help.
Michelle L.
Technology Investment Banking Analyst
Morgan Stanley
IEOR + Business ’21
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