Brooke Braun

More than half of the Commerce School’s alumni participated in the fundraising effort.

The initiative will fund need-based scholarships and create programming to advance the role of business as a force for good in society.

“Maintaining the highest ranking among U.S.-based programs is a testament to our vision for an innovative, one-year curriculum for recent liberal arts, sciences and engineering graduates,” McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml said.

Over the past 22 years, Zeithaml worked with faculty, staff, students and alumni to achieve the commerce school’s position of global preeminence in business education.

McIntire School of Commerce alumnus John P. Connaughton and his wife Stephanie hope the gift – matched with $3.3 million from UVA’s Bicentennial Professors Fund – will help create new educational programs around alternative investing.

Shetterly, who graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce in 1991, will hold a joint appointment in the Commerce and Engineering schools to forge new knowledge about the historical contributions of African-Americans.

Poets&Quants for Undergrads honored the school for its top marks on alumni surveys, high return-on-investment and ongoing curriculum innovation, among other qualities.

Business education website Poets&Quants ranked UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce No. 1 for alumni satisfaction and student experience, and No. 2 overall.

The McIntire School of Commerce is planning a new building adjacent to its current location on the Lawn and a new program combining bioscience and business.

Business education website Poets&Quants for Undergrads ranked UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce No. 3 among U.S. undergraduate business programs and first for alumni satisfaction. It is the only public institution to rank in the top five.