Business is a Science
Founded in 2003, the Rady School of Management was created as a shared vision by local science and technology leaders with the goal of enhancing the vitality of the strong regional economy.
The Rady School’s first dean, Robert S. Sullivan, served for 16 years and recruited top-tier faculty from universities such as MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
Since 2019, Lisa Ordóñez, the first Latina dean at UC San Diego, has made her mark at Rady by creating successful new degree programs, formulating a visionary strategic plan for Rady’s future, continuing to hire high-caliber faculty and expanding the school’s innovative, quantitative, and data-driven curriculum.
All the MBA programs in the Rady School of Management have a STEM designation. With programs intensively hands-on, an education at Rady takes students’ quantitative and analytical skills to a new level. Our alumni are the leaders needed for the 21st century, ready to create the essential bridges between science, data, and innovation.
Lisa Ordóñez, Dean of UC San Diego Rady School of Management
As part of the prestigious UC San Diego campus, the Rady School is surrounded by premier research institutions, accelerators and other top-ranked schools of excellence. The school’s unique, collaborative environment is cultivated by the San Diego region’s top technology companies, research institutes and neighboring universities in the region. San Diego is home to more than 500 biomedical companies, over 1,400 software and computer services companies and is considered the high-tech capital of Southern California.
Rady students enjoy vibrant collaborations with other esteemed UC San Diego schools and institutions, including the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
The faculty at Rady embody the UC San Diego mission to transform our diverse global society. They are publishing in top journals with research that makes an impact on the world, addressing issues such as income inequality, climate change and the rise of misinformation.
Rady faculty and students use data to forge new paths and discoveries. Our community is intently focused on intellectual discovery and learning — and on action.
Some of our top rankings include:
#4 Best B-School for Entrepreneurship
MBA rankings 2022-23
Bloomberg Businessweek
#4 Best B-School for Learning
MBA rankings 2022-23
Bloomberg Businessweek
#9 Faculty Quality
(#12 Globally)
Full-Time MBA ranking 2021
Economist
#23
Faculty Research
(#28 Globally)
Full-Time MBA ranking 2020
Financial Times
Full-Time MBA 2021 Class Profile
Entering Enrollment 48
Men 71%
Women 29%
Domestic 48%
International 52%
Average Age 30
Average Years of Work Experience 5.9
GMAT Mean 647
GMAT Median 660
GRE Quant Percentile Mean 68th
GRE Verbal Percentile Mean 67th
Undergraduate GPA Mean 3.34
Students who hold advanced degrees 13%
Tuition: $124,550 (For incoming class in Fall 2022)
Full-Time MBA
Deadline 1 — November 1, 2022
Deadline 2 — December 1, 2022
Deadline 3 — February 1, 2023
Deadline 4: Final International Deadline & Special Fellowship Consideration Deadline* — April 1, 2023
Final Deadline — June 1, 2023
Contact:
Matt Alex, Director of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment
Email: radygradadmissions@rady.ucsd.edu
Web: https://rady.ucsd.edu/programs/mba/admissions/contact.html
Address:
Rady School of Management
9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093
Phone: (858) 534-2230