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Second Year students celebrated their last day of class in May as they prepared to step forward into their post-MBA careers.
Rankings Reveal Top Career Results for Darden Class of 2020
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ankings season returned this year, but like so many things during the pandemic, it was not like any other. Many top MBA programs chose not to participate in the rankings, and Darden declined to participate in fall rankings from The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Princeton Review (though they still ranked the School). The School did, however, participate in rankings released this spring from Financial Times and U.S. News & World Report. In the Financial Times’ annual global MBA ranking, Darden was ranked the No. 11 MBA program in the world and No. 6 in the United States. Both figures represent new highs in the ranking for the School’s MBA program. The publication noted that some schools opted to suspend participation in the rankings due to ongoing complications related to the coronavirus pandemic. In U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 ranking of the best graduate business programs in the United States, Darden was ranked No. 13 overall and No. 2 among public schools.
Darden received a pair of Top 10 program rankings this spring.
No.2 No.6
2020–21
RANKINGS U P DAT E
MBA PROGRAM AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOLS (U.S. News & World Report)
MBA PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES (Financial Times)
Career outcomes once again drove Darden's rankings success.
No.4 No.5 No.5 No.7 No.9
ALUMNI AIMS ACHIEVED (Financial Times)
HIGHEST AVERAGE STARTING SALARY AND BONUS (Class of 2020) (U.S. News & World Report)
PERCENTAGE EMPLOYED AT GRADUATION
(U.S. News & World Report)
HIGHEST SALARY (ALUMNI) (Financial Times)
PERCENTAGE SALARY INCREASE (ALUMNI) (Financial Times)
SUMMER 2021
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