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The Student Who Treated His Business School Like an Investment
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (1472+ words) When Hugo Bonilla (Class of 2026) started the Part-Time MBA program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, he was on a pretty standard track. He was working in Northern Virginia at Capital One. Later, he moved to PenFed…...
How Do You Grow an MBA Program Without Watering it Down? UVA Darden Has an Answer.
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (744+ words) The University of Virginia Darden School of Business did not rush into the Executive MBA market. It entered deliberately " later than many peers " and built the program in its own image: high-contact, student-driven and anchored in close faculty engagement. Over…...
Darden Executive MBA Turns 20: Where Darden Met the Weekend
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1819+ words) In the mid-2000s, weekend and executive MBAs were already a familiar feature of the business school landscape. Many leading programs offered a path for full-time professionals to earn an MBA without stepping off the career track. The University of Virginia Darden…...
Kelly Thomson (MBA ’99): Finding Her Own Path in Finance
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (574+ words) When Kelly Thomson (MBA "99) first stepped into an introductory microeconomics class in college, it wasn"t her idea. It was her father"s ultimatum. "He told me if I didn"t take an econ class, I"d have to pay…...
UVA Darden No. 1 Public Business School in Poets & Quants Ranking – Darden Report Online
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (415+ words) The University of Virginia Darden School of Business ranks No. 1 among public, full-time U.S. MBA programs in the country, according to new 2025-26 rankings from Poets & Quants. It marks the third consecutive year Darden has come out on top among public schools…...
What MBA Students Want (to Learn)
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (778+ words) It's been 70 years since the University of Virginia Darden School of Business MBA program launched in 1955, its classrooms filled with students who came of age during World War II partaking in a single residential format and preparing to thrive in…...
How One MBA Student Is Changing the Conversation at UVA Darden
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (637+ words) April 24, 2025 Psalms Morales (Class of 2026) was announced as the latest recipient of the Lemuel E. Lewis Bicentennial Award for Global Leadership " a unique, student-led scholarship that recognizes values-driven leadership and a commitment to building understanding across communities. " The room had quieted....