The Yale School of Management, or Yale SOM, as it is known to its students, has a mission of “educating leaders for business and society.” The program focuses on preparing leaders who will have an impact in areas at the intersection of business and society, including sustainability, asset management, health care, education, financial stability, the role of women in business, and global leadership.
Yale SOM achieves its mission through its comprehensive, integrated curriculum, designed for MBA students to understand the whole organization. Yale relies on an innovative case study method that includes “cooked” and “raw” case studies. Cooked case studies are the kind typically seen in the traditional case study approach that several top MBA programs use. Yale School of Management also pioneered the raw case study method, in which information is presented from various angles and in multimedia formats, and students must identify what elements are actually relevant to the case—much like in real life. Among top business schools, Yale SOM is the most connected to its parent university, which is also a draw for many candidates. Compared with peer institutions, Yale School of Management has a much higher percentage of joint degree students, specializing in such areas as forestry, environmental management, law, global affairs, and public health while also working toward their MBA.
The Yale SOM program has grown over the past few years with the opening of its stellar, state-of-the-art new building, Evans Hall. The Class of 2023 has 349 full-time MBA students, 44% of whom are international passport holders. With the new building, Yale SOM has also enhanced its offerings for executive MBAs and other business-related master’s programs.
Although the Yale School of Management was previously thought of primarily as a “finance school,” the largest proportion of graduates tend to enter positions with a consulting function. Of the Class of 2020, 44% did so, while 25% accepted finance function roles, 14% marketing/sales, and 9.3% general management.
Yale SOM Deadlines (2021–2022)
Round 1 Application Deadline
September 14, 2021
Round 1 Decisions
December 3, 2021
Round 2 Application Deadline
January 6, 2022
Round 2 Decisions
March 25, 2022
Round 3 Application Deadline
April 12, 2022
Round 3 Decisions
May 18, 2022