The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is ranked in the Top 10 in a new ranking of full-time Master of Business Administration programs in the United States.
Fortune ranked Darden No. 10 overall as part of its ranking. The Darden School is also the No. 1 public MBA program on the list.
The new ranking represents the second consecutive Top 10 ranking for Darden, which was ranked No. 9 overall and the No. 1 public in the released in September.
Fortune’s ranking methodology leans heavily on career outcomes, with 65% of the total ranking comprising median and mean base salary and placement for each program’s full-time MBA Class of 2021.
The Darden Class of 2021 an average base salary of $144,933, a record at the time that was subsequently by the Class of 2022.
The ranking also considers a school’s “Brand Score,” a measure based on interviews with 2,500 individuals intended to measure how business professionals and hiring managers view a business school’s brand as a whole.
The final component of the ranking considers the number of alumni from each school’s MBA program who are C-suite executives at Fortune 1000 companies.
