Blog: Archive for the “University of Virginia (Darden)” Category

Is Darden trying to keep aspiring consultants at bay? Does the school just not have the resources to read a large number of essays? We have no real way of knowing, of course, but we have a hard time imagining that the admissions committee can get a full and accurate impression of a candidate from … Read More  

When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. The Darden Partners Association (DPA) at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Administration sponsors … Read More  

Good news for the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business: Dean Robert “Bob” Bruner has been named Dean of the Year by the MBA-community Web site Poets and Quants. Bruner beat out deans from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, the Indian School of Business and other top programs. He received this … Read More  

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Curry School of Education have teamed up to offer a brand new joint MBA/MEd degree. The full-time program, to be completed in just two years, is designed to train future leaders in American education. Interested applicants must apply and be accepted to both Darden and Curry, … Read More  

MBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business are known to work quite hard amid the rigors of the case method. Each day, they are expected to read and complete their own analysis of a case (a narrative detailing of a business problem) and then compare and reason through their analysis with … Read More