Financial Times Names UVA Darden Best MBA in General Management
By Dave Hendrick
Financial Times has named the University of Virginia Darden School of Business the world’s best MBA for general management in its Global MBA Ranking 2016.
Darden was ranked tops for general management for the fourth year in a row, and Financial Times also ranked Darden sixth in the world in Placement success, which measures alumni’s rating of the effectiveness of the School’s career services — Darden’s Career Development Center and Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services — in supporting student recruitment.
In the overall ranking, Darden rose two places to No. 14 from No. 16 among U.S. schools. In the global ranking, Darden rose five places to No. 27 from No. 32.
The 2016 Financial Times ranking is based on two surveys, one completed by the business school and the other by alumni who graduated in 2012. The ranking measures three categories:
- Alumni career progress
- Diversity (faculty, student and board gender and international diversity, and international courses and opportunities offered)
- Idea generation
Darden’s rise in the ranking reflects high notes in the area of alumni career progress. In addition to the No. 6 Placement success ranking, Darden’s 2012 alumni reported a 109 percent increase in the average difference of their salary from before their MBA to now.
In its rankings magazine issue, Financial Times also includes a feature story on Neofect, the entrepreneurial venture of two Darden graduates, Hoyoung Ban (MBA ’11) and Scott Kim (MBA ’11).
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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