News in Brief: Darden Earns High Rankings in Influential Report

February 20, 2023
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The Princeton Review ranked the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in the top 10 in a number of categories in its new report, with six rankings in the top five. Darden took the No. 2 spots in the categories of “Best Campus Environment,” “Best Career Prospects” and “Best Classroom Experience.”

Darden was ranked among the top 10 schools in 11 categories, the only school with that distinction. It was also highly rated for “Best MBA for Management,” “Best MBA for Consulting” and “Best Professors.”

This is the second year in a row Darden has landed in more top 10 categories than any other school. Darden’s most recent full-time MBA graduating class broke records on a number of career metrics, including the highest mean and median base salary in school history.

UVA Medical Center Official Wins Acclaim

Modern Healthcare, a leading national publication, has named University of Virginia Medical Center CEO Wendy Horton to the magazine’s 2023 list of Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare.

The annual list honors “female executives who are guiding health care delivery improvement across the country,” according to Modern Healthcare.

She was honored for creating “a strategic roadmap and transformational plan to optimize the medical center’s operations” that led to a $60 million increase in yearly net operating revenue and her effort to improve employee compensation and retention.

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