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UC San Diego Rady School of Management
University of California, San Diego · San Diego, California · Public
“Biotech's MBA, on the Torrey Pines mesa.”
Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles
70.7
GoodBP Score
$100,000Tuition, total
650Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
79%Placed at 3 months
$120,000Median base salary
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Rady exists because the Torrey Pines mesa needed managers: the school shares a canyon with hundreds of biotechs and the Salk-Scripps research complex, and life-science placement dominates its outcomes. Young by business-school standards, quantitative by design, and inseparable from its cluster — exactly the specialization thesis, executed.
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