About Us
Impact Through Innovation, Powered by Collaboration
At the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, we don’t settle for the status quo—we outgrow it.
With strategic campuses in Davis, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re the only business school spanning and connecting Northern California’s Super-Region: the most powerful intersection of innovation, policy and purpose in the world.
We don’t just educate future leaders. We connect them.
Our students and alumni are a high-performing talent pipeline for companies across this critical economic corridor and well beyond. Whether launching mission-driven ventures or accelerating UC Davis research from the lab to the market, our collaborative approach builds something bigger: opportunity, equity and meaningful impact.
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management — We Outgrow the Expected.
Our Talents
75+
Internationally renowned research faculty, visiting professors and guest lecturers
800+
Graduate business students in eight degree programs
5,500+
Alumni are catalysts for change in a wide spectrum of industries around this world
3,000+
Researchers trained in entrepreneurship academies and fellows programs to help bring innovations to market
Our Impact
Our vision as a business school on the rise is to spur new business and job creation, prepare innovative management leaders, and accelerate investment and innovation through strong partnerships with industry.
Every day, our community of faculty, students, alumni and staff is making an impact at Fortune 500 firms, mid-sized companies and promising startups by helping to put new ideas into action.
The Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship brings together researchers and students with experienced entrepreneurs, investors and corporate leaders to build networks, support technology transfer and accelerate commercialization. The institute has helped more than 11,000 changemakers across campus and beyond move their ideas into action with business competitions, fellowship programs, entrepreneurship academies and new ventures, including the Think. Do. Discover. speaker series and a workshop series. More than 160 companies have launched out of or been supported by the institute, and startups have raised more than $1.7 billion in venture capital.