CNBC to offer University of California, Los Angeles students a master class in financial education with the broadcast of the “Mad Money Back to School Tour” hosted by Jim Cramer and the CNBC Your Money: College Tour live interactive event at the Luskin Conference Center on November 21 and 22
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., November 7, 2024 – CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced it is heading back to school and bringing a lesson in financial education to the University of California, Los Angeles.
The CNBC Your Money: College Tour and Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money Back to School Tour,” will be at the Luskin Conference Center on the UCLA campus in November offering students the exclusive opportunity to engage with content designed to help them create their own path to achieving financial wellness.
“Our financial education efforts provide critical skills like budgeting, investing and managing debt, that can greatly benefit people across every life stage,” said KC Sullivan, CNBC President. “By bringing these two important CNBC franchises to UCLA, we are giving students access to the tools and information they need to build a strong foundation for lifelong financial success.”
“A UCLA education aims to ensure that students can succeed in all aspects of their lives and helping them sharpen their financial literacy skills is part of that,” said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Monroe Gorden. “We’re proud to be a part of this innovative program, which adds to a number of other campus services — covering basic needs, financial wellness and more — that enable our students to thrive.”
The UCLA Anderson School of Management will host Jim Cramer on Thursday, November 21 for an on-campus broadcast of his wildly popular “Mad Money Back to School Tour.” The show will tape in front of a live audience of students and alumni. Since 2006, the “Mad Money Back to School Tour” has focused on the importance of financial education and giving students the chance to experience the passion and excitement of its energetic host by being a part of the “Mad Money” audience. UCLA is the 21st college visit on Cramer’s tour.
“Empowering students with analytical tools and cultivating critical judgment to assess investment decisions are central to our teaching at UCLA Anderson,” said Lori Santikian, Faculty Director of the UCLA Fink Center for Finance. “Our students look forward to engaging with Jim Cramer during the ‘Mad Money Back to School Tour,’ both on the show and behind-the-scenes.”
On Friday, November 22, the CNBC Your Money: College Tour will bring together a team of top experts, alumni, and special guests to offer advice and real-world insight on topics like budgeting, saving, investing, and more to empower every student to take control of their money, and their future. Speakers include entrepreneur, reality star and author Jason Tartick, former NFL player, entrepreneur and investor Brandon Copeland, podcaster, author and content creator Kyla Scanlon, and career advisor and author Gorick Ng as well as a special appearance by CNBC’s Jim Cramer. The CNBC Your Money: College Tour is hosted by CNBC “Power Lunch” Co-Anchor & Vice President of Events Strategy Tyler Mathisen alongwith co-host Sharon Epperson, CNBC’s Senior Personal Finance Correspondent. CNBC Make It Money Reporter Kamaron McNair will be a moderator.at the event.
UCLA undergraduate and graduate students can register for free tickets at https://ymcollegetour.cnbc.com.
Intuit for Education is a sponsor of the CNBC Your Money: College Tour.
About CNBC
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business content consumed by nearly half a billion people per month across all platforms. The network’s 14 live hours a day of news programming in North America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of reality programming, CNBC’s highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
CNBC also offers content through its vast portfolio of digital products such as: CNBC.com, which provides financial market news and information to CNBC’s investor audience; CNBC Make It, a digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you earn, save and spend your money; CNBC PRO, a premium service that provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs. To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.
Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBCUniversal Media Village Web site at https://www.nbcumv.com/programming/cnbc. For more information about NBCUniversal, please visit https://www.nbcuniversal.com/.
About Jim Cramer and the “Mad Money Back to School Tour”
Jim Cramer is the host of “Mad Money w/Jim Cramer,” which airs weekdays on CNBC at 6 p.m. ET. He is also the co-anchor of the 9 a.m. ET hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” (M-F, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. ET) and runs the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, a subscription product aimed at helping all investors build long-term wealth in the stock market.
University of California, Los Angeles is the 21st stop on Cramer’s tour. Previously, “Mad Money” traveled to the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, University of Iowa, Georgia Tech’s School of Management, the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Harvard Law School, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Columbia Business School, Boston College, Georgetown University, The Darden School of Business at The University of Virginia, the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, Penn State University, A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, University of California Los Angeles, University of Oklahoma, University of Ohio, Villanova University, United States Military Academy West Point and United States Air Force Academy.
For more information contact:
Jennifer Dauble
CNBC
t: 201.735.4721
m: 201.615.2787
Stephanie Hirlemann
CNBC
m: 201.397.2838
