Undergraduate Program
Applying to the Haas School of Business
Prerequisite Courses for Continuing UC Berkeley Applicants
All prerequisite courses must carry a minimum of 3 semester units and must be completed with a letter grade of C- or higher no more than 5 years before starting the business major. The prerequisites listed below are UC Berkeley campus courses. Once at UC Berkeley, students must take all prerequisites at UC Berkeley. If non-UC Berkeley college level course work was completed before admission into UC Berkeley, it can be used to satisfy prerequisite or breadth requirements with the exception of Principles of Business (UGBA 10), which must be taken at UC Berkeley. If off-campus work was completed at a California community college, visit the Assist website, www.assist.org for courses at each school that fulfill the prerequisite or breadth requirements.
If you repeated or have taken more than one course to fulfill a prerequisite you must use the first attempt to satisfy the requirement. If you received a C- or higher for your first attempt you should not repeat the prerequisite.
Some requirements may be fulfilled with exam credit. Please review the AP, IB, A Level Interpretation Summaries.
Undergraduate Business Administration 10. Principles of Business. All UC Berkeley applicants must complete this course at UC Berkeley.
Math (Calculus). One semester of calculus is required - Math 1A, 1B, 16A or 16B.
Economics 1 or 2. Introduction to Economics or Intensive Introduction to Economics.
Statistics 20, 21 or 25. Introductory Probability and Statistics.
Literature/Writing Requirement
This requirement is in addition to the English/R & C requirement and must be satisfied by the completion of one course in which literature or writing is studied, not including R & C courses. New courses will be added and discontinued classes will be removed from the list below in July. You cannot petition to take a course that is not listed and those students who choose to take a course that is not listed will be ineligible for admission. Download the list of approved courses here (.pdf).
English/Reading and Composition Requirement (R & C). You must satisfy this requirement by completing courses comparable to both Berkeley's English R1A and English R1B.
Go to the Letters & Science website for a complete list of courses that will satisfy the first half ("A") and second half ("B") of the R & C requirement.
You may use first-half and second-half courses from different departments. Please remember that Haas guidelines differ from L&S guidelines. For example, for Haas one course may not be used to satisfy both a prerequisite and a breadth requirement.
