VETERANS AT STANFORD

The Stanford GSB Veterans Club is a small but tight-knit community. The MBA Class of 2022 has 16 US veterans and 6 international veterans. Specific service breakouts vary from year to year, but there is generally representation from each branch in each class.

Each GSB class is incredibly diverse, with about 40% of students from international/non-U.S. backgrounds, and many from non-traditional professional backgrounds.  Veterans play an important part in this overall community and also benefit greatly from it. Our student club activities tend to focus on building community and helping veterans transition from the military.  Each fall, we hold a Weekend Retreat for veterans in the mountains of Santa Cruz and stay in touch throughout the term with regular social events.  Around Veterans Day, we host our "Whiskey & War Stories" small group military-civilian outreach program.  Additionally, Stanford regularly provides access to perspectives from the world's most influential leaders (a sampling of one quarter's speakers include: James Mattis, Condi Rice, Hank Paulson, Jamie Dimon, Penny Pritzker, and others).

We are also active in the broader Stanford community.  Each May we host our annual Military Service Appreciation Dinner where we acknowledge veterans for their public service and present the Jack McDonald Service & Leadership Award.  

Each year, we sponsor treks to visit local tech companies including Google, Facebook, Palantir, and Pinterest. We additionally host events such as a "Vets in Venture Capital" panel where local VCs have lunch with our club to discuss careers in venture capital.

Our club is actively involved with assisting applicants. Please let us know if you plan on visiting the GSB campus, and we can help get you into a class visit and make sure you meet some of our vets.