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Campus

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Career Focused Clubs

Cultural Clubs

Centers of Excellence

 

HISTORY

 Foundation

Founded in 1954, the school is named after Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr., one of the school's greatest advocates and former Virginia governor, congressman, and president of UVA.

 USP

Darden's faculty have been consecutively ranked the number one in the Princeton Review. the 50 year old First Coffee tradition allows students, faculty, staff and visitors to socialize every morning. Darden has an exceptional focus on ethics in business, as promoted by Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.

 

RANKING

 Forbes

1 Dartmouth (Tuck)
2 Stanford
3 Harvard
4 Virginia (Darden)
5 Pennsylvania (Wharton)
6 Columbia
7 Chicago
8 Yale
9 Northwestern (Kellogg)
10 Cornell (Johnson)

 Business Week

1 University of Chicago (Booth)
2 Harvard University
3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5 University of Michigan (Ross)
6 Stanford University
7 Columbia University
8 Duke University (Fuqua)
9 MIT (Sloan)
10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
11 Cornell University (Johnson)
12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
13 NYU (Stern)
14 UCLA (Anderson)
15 Indiana University (Kelley)
16 University of Virginia (Darden)
17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)

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LOCATION

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 Financial Times

1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2 London Business School
3 Columbia Business School
4 Stanford University GSB
5 Harvard Business School
6 INSEAD
7 MIT: Sloan
8 IE Business School
9 University of Chicago GSB
10 University of Cambridge: Judge
11 CEIBS
11 IESE Business School
13 New York University: Stern
14 IMD
15 Dartmouth College: Tuck
16 Yale School of Management
17 Hong Kong UST Business School
18 HEC Paris
19 University of Oxford: said
20 Indian School of Business
21 ESADE Business School
22 Lancaster University Management School
22 Manchester Business School
24 Northwestern: Kellogg
25 UCLA: Anderson
26 Emory University: Goizueta
27 University of Michigan: Ross
28 Duke University: Fuqua
29 Warwick Business School
30 Cranfield School of Management
30 University of Strathclyde Business School
32 UC Berkeley: Haas
33 University of Virginia: Darden
34 RSM Erasmus University
35 Imperial College London: Tanaka
36 Cornell University: Johnson
37 University of Maryland Smith
38 Georgetown University: McDonough
39 Australian Graduate School of Management
40 University of Toronto: Rotman

** Darden highlighted

 Princeton

The Princeton Review is the result of a survey of 19,000 students from 296 business schools. The categorical rankings are:

Best Professors: #1

Campus Facilities: #5

Campus Environment: #6

Most Family Friendly: #7

Best Career Perspectives: #7

Best Classroom Experience: #9

 Others

Wall Street Journal: #10

The Economist (U. S.): #12

U. S. News & World Report: #14

 

LOCATION

 Campus

Located in Charlottesville, only two hours drive from Washington D. C. , the place offers the combination of proximity of the national capital and the beauty of a small town.

 Infrastructure

Darden houses state-of-the-art facilities including 5 interconnected buildings of 260,760 square feet. The Camp Library contains more than 125,000 volumes, 1,100 periodicals, and 150 online databases with access to numerous daily newspapers and business journals.

Technology at Darden is one of the most advanced by the standards of any leading graduate business school. Darden is wee connected with more than 4,500 high speed network connections, available virtually in every room on Darden grounds. Wireless networking is available in team rooms, café, library and other prominent places.

 

FACILITIES

 Career Focused Student Organizations

Business Technology Club

Consulting Club

Darden Capital Management

Darden Private Equity Club (DPEC)

Energy Club

Entrepreneurial and Venture Capital Club (EVC)

Finance Club

General Management and Operations Club

Health Care Leadership Club

Marketing Club

Media, Entertainment, and Sports Club

Net Impact at Darden

Opportunity Consultants, Inc.

Real Estate Club

 Cultural

Asian Business Club at Darden

Athletics and Recreation

Black Business Student Forum (BBSF)

Christian Fellowship

Building Goodness in April (CIA) Charlottesville

Cold Call Chorus

Cold Call Chronicle

Darden African Business Organization (DABO)

Darden Education Club

Darden Follies

Darden Japan Club

Darden Jewish Student Association (DJSA)

Darden Latter-Day Saint Student Association

Darden Military Association

Darden Partners Association (DPA)

Darden Rowing Club

Darden Student Association

European Society at Darden

Gays, Lesbians, and Allies at Darden

UVAPride

Hispanic American Network at Darden (HAND)

International Business Society

Latin American Student Association (LASA)

MBA/JD Society

National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA)

Outdoors Club

Outreach at Darden

Sky Club at Darden

 Centers of Excellence

The Batten Institute: Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Established in 1999, the institute is an initiative to encourage research on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics: In  association with Business Roundtable—an association of 160 CEOs from leading companies - the Institute is a platform to enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practice through executive education programs, practitioner-focused research and outreach.

The Olsson Center: This international leader in Business Ethics is a critical resource for students, scholars, executives and Darden alumni facing challenges in ethics integrated decision making.

The Tayloe Murphy Center: The center focuses on programs and researches related to international issues and global business.

The Darden/Curry Partnership: This is the partnership between Darden and Curry School of Education to create a platform for advanced thinking in business and education.

 

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