Clubs & Activities
You will learn as much from your classmates through outside activities as you will in the classroom.
The Stanford GSB supports more than 60 clubs, events, and activities that run the gamut from purely social to strictly professional. Students also create informal get-togethers, weekend jaunts, and other "unofficial" special-interest activities.
The large number of student clubs provides numerous leadership opportunities. Students form new groups and activities all the time. If you don't find an existing group that shares your particular interests, create your own!
Interests, Activities, & Clubs
The following activities are just a sample of your extra-curricular options. Families are welcome at virtually all activities:
- Biz Partners & Biz Kids-clubs run by partners of current students that organizes social events and offers resources to help MBA partners and families settle in and become part of the GSB community
- Books on Break-a program encouraging students, staff, faculty, and alumni to interact through book groups
- Career interest groups—including arts/media/entertainment, consulting, education, entrepreneurship, finance and investing, environmental management, global management, government and politics, health care biotech, high tech, manufacturing and design, marketing, nonprofit boards, public management, real estate, retail, sports management, and telecom
- Challenge for Charity, Children's Holiday Party, Start Up, I have a Dream, and other groups who focus on charitable activities or lend their expertise to the community
- Cultural clubs for Asian, South Asian, African American, Hispanic, and Jewish students
- Geographic groups with specific interests such as Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, and Texas
- Out4Biz Club-a social and socially active organization for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students at the GSB that strives to provide a community, serve as a resource, and increase awareness
- Recreation groups-including golf, a cappella singing, outdoor adventures, rugby, sailing, skiing and snowboarding, soccer, dance, and triathlons
- Small Group Dinners at which students host fellow students and faculty
- Social and Special Interest groups-such as Epicureans at the GSB, the Futurist Club, Off-Duty Club (ex-military), the Student Show, Wine Circle, and the Yearbook
- Take a Professor to Lunch-a program supporting informal interaction between students and faculty
- Women in Management-a club that supports women in achieving their full professional potential by providing mentorship, guidance, and a forum for education and the exchange of ideas on issues that women face in leadership
