弗吉尼亚大学(达顿)
The Darden School of Business at University of Virginia (Darden) offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, general management, international business, leadership, manufacturing and technology management, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, supply chain management/logistics, quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research, tax, and technology. Its tuition is full-time: $66,436 per year (in-state); full-time: $68,754 per year (out-of-state); executive: $136,030 total program (in-state); executive: $136,030 total program (out-of-state); specialty master's: $59,600 total program (in-state); and specialty master's: $59,600 total program (out-of-state). At graduation, 83.90 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.
Students at the University of Virgina Darden Graduate School of Business Administration learn through the case method. First year students tackle cases in assigned Learning Teams, groups of about six students. The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration also offers executive MBA and Ph.D. degrees, as well as global MBA for executives and executive education programs.
The MBA class has about 340 students, about a third of whom are female. Slightly less than 10 percent of Darden students have served in the military, and the school offers several military leadership electives. There are more than 40 student clubs, some career-focused and others social. Students can study abroad through Global Business Experiences, one- or two-week courses that examine business issues in places such as Barcelona and Bahia, Brazil. Graduate students can live in university-owned housing or can find private housing throughout Charlottesville, Va. and beyond.
Notable alumni include John D. Shafer, Jr., former CEO of Dunkin’ Donuts; Ned Hooper, former chief strategy officer and senior vice president of Cisco Systems Inc.; and Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina.
