Anderson Onboarding FAQ

Anderson Onboarding is the launch of your MBA experience. Onboarding will immerse you in the values and culture of the UCLA Anderson community, provide robust early academic training, deliver focused career preparation to help you master recruiting, and hone skills that will serve you well during your MBA and future career. Onboarding is designed to make you 100% ready for the challenges of fall quarter and beyond.

Anderson Onboarding takes place from the start of UCLA summer session C through the start of the fall quarter, from Monday, July 29 to Wednesday, September 18, 2024.  You can expect to be busy throughout the day Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm PT, participating live in academic classes, review sessions, career-related programming, departmental events, and networking and social activities. We will keep you up to date on your next steps through weekly emails from Student Affairs and via our internal web portal for incoming students, which will launch in May 2024.

Beginning on day one of Onboarding (and continuing through your graduation!), you should consider yourself a full-time student. Onboarding consists of rigorous academic classes and review sessions, career-related courses and assignments, departmental programming, and social and networking events. You should plan to be busy from 8am-5pm PT Monday through Friday. Please email Associate Director of Academic Life Jeanette Reyes with further questions.

You will receive weekly emails to keep you on track on all the steps required to complete the process of becoming a full-time MBA student at UCLA Anderson. Some of those emails will also include information about upcoming Admit events and activities and later on deliverables from our Parker Career Management Center to help you hit the ground running when you start the program.   

The UCLA Housing Office has not informed us of any changes to their current housing assignment system at this time. If you apply for UCLA housing, you will hear from their office directly with updates. That said, on-campus housing is highly impacted, and we are unable to guarantee UCLA housing to all of our admitted students. Since this is the case, we highly recommend that even if you plan to apply for UCLA housing, have a backup plan for private housing as well.

If your questions are career or recruiting-related, email Parker CMC at parker.cmc@anderson.ucla.edu. If they’re about your admissions status, email mba.admits@anderson.ucla.edu. For everything else, email the Student Affairs Office at student.affairs@anderson.ucla.edu.