| Stanford Graduate School of Business (also | | | | The Stanford GSB also offers a number of dual |
| known as Stanford Business School, or Stanford | | | | degree programs in association with other schools |
| GSB), located in California, is one of the world's | | | | at Stanford University, including the schools of |
| top-most business schools for an MBA degree. | | | | education, engineering, law, and medicine. The |
| Stanford Business School is highly regarded by | | | | school is typically listed as one of the top three |
| recruiters for developing creative, entrepreneurial | | | | schools (along with Harvard University's Business |
| leaders with outstanding general management, | | | | School and the University of Pennsylvania's |
| analytical, and team work skills. The school is also | | | | Wharton School of Business) in the nation. A large |
| recognized for its certificate programs in public | | | | part of this ranking is attributable to the scope of |
| management and global management. | | | | the school's research endeavors, its role in the |
| Apart from offering a 2-year, full-time residential | | | | development of Silicon Valley's leading businesses, |
| MBA program, the school also offers the Sloan | | | | and the prominence of its alumni in many leading |
| Program, a one-year MS in business for | | | | venture capital and private equity firms, |
| accomplished mid-career executives, as well as a | | | | consultancies, and emerging tech companies. |
| PhD program. The courses offered in the 2-year | | | | Other highly ranked business schools in California |
| MBA program are accounting, entrepreneurship, | | | | include the University of California, Berkeley - |
| finance, general and interdisciplinary global | | | | Haas School of Business, the University of |
| management, human resource management, | | | | California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of |
| leadership, managerial economics, marketing, | | | | Management, the University of Southern |
| operations, information and technology, | | | | California's Marshall School of Business, and the |
| organizational behavior, political economics, public | | | | University of California, Davis. |
| management, and strategic management. | | | | |