Students
Daytime MBA
Sacramento Working Professional MBA
Bay Area Working Professional MBA
MBA Program
Application for Candidacy
Deadlines for 2009
Completion of Degree    Forms due in
Student Services*
March 2009 (end of Winter09)  December 4, 2008
June 2009 (end of Spring09)  February 27, 2009
September 2009 (end of Summer09) May 28, 2009
December 2009 (end of Fall09) August 27, 2009

*Please note: Failure to meet the posted deadline may result in a one quarter delay in receiving your diploma.
Graduation Requirements: 72 units minimum AND a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better are needed to graduate.

Please refer to your respective Student Handbooks if you need further information on graduate requirements.

  • All information must be legible.
  • Complete both forms for candidacy (application form - front and back, and worksheet).
  • Signatures:  Only your signature is required - on EACH of the three different pages.  (Signature from the Dean will be obtained by Student Services when you have completed your degree.)
  • Course Information:  Refer to SISWEB.  If you have tested out of a core course, please note that on the worksheet.
  • Forms should be submitted no earlier than three weeks prior to the posted deadline.  Forms received any earlier will be returned to students.
Joint Degree Students:  The GSM will accept up to 12 units of coursework from your other degree toward our 72 unit degree total.  These "shared" units must be approved in advance.  Please see the GSM Registrar for details.

The exception is the MBA/JD.  See details below:


MBA/JD Joint Degree
Required Courses:
200A - Financial Accounting
201A - Individual and Group Dynamics
202A - Markets & the Firm
203A - Data Analysis for Managers
204 - Marketing Management
205 - Financial Management & Policy

Breadth Courses (must have completed at least 3):
200B, 201B, 202B, 204B, 206, or 208

Electives: 30 quarter units of MGT elective course work
Jt. MBA/Law students may not take 215 or 264 for credit toward the MBA.

Minimum GSM units required: 57 MGT units

10 semester units of law course work will count toward the MBA.