Forbes Ranks Darden in Top Ten

For the fourth consecutive time, Forbes magazine has ranked the Darden School of Business among the top ten graduate business schools in the United States. In the newly released 2009 Best Business Schools issue, Forbes placed the Darden School in the 9^th position. www.forbes.com

The Forbes rankings are based on return on investment. The publication gathers data from MBA graduates from 103 schools. Data include pre-MBA salary, cost of tuition and fees, foregone compensation, and salary the first five years after graduation.

Darden has been in the Forbes top ten in five of the publication’s six polls.

• 2009 Forbes:  Darden #9
• 2007 Forbes:  Darden #4
• 2005 Forbes:  Darden #8
• 2003 Forbes: Darden #10
• 2001 Forbes:  Darden #13
• 1999 Forbes:  Darden #10

"Our strategy is driven by our values and our mission,” said Darden’s Associate Dean for MBA Programs Robert Carraway. “We don’t manage to the rankings. But that being said, it is always gratifying to be recognized as one of the top MBA programs.”

Forbes ranked the top 75 MBA programs in the United States along with the top non-U.S. programs. Forbes’ top 20 domestic programs include:

1.    Stanford

2.    Dartmouth

3.    Harvard

4.    Chicago

5.    Penn

6.    Columbia

7.    Cornell

8.    Northwestern

9.    Virginia

10. Yale

11. Texas

12. U.C. Berkeley

13. Duke

14. MIT

15. North Carolina

16. Brigham Young

17. NYU

18. Michigan

19. UCLA

20. Iowa

Founded in 1955, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is a professional school that improves society by developing leaders in the world of practical affairs.

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