Dean Bob Bruner曾经说，当他在2005接受院长任命时，”Darden is the least known b-school among all top schools.” 在过去的五年，Darden的leadership team一直在努力，以2010年为例，Dean花了超过50%的时间travel, 一年内拜访了超过80家顶尖的公司（潜在雇主）。
§Darden近年势头良好，在BW, US News, Economist和Forbes四项排名中都至少维持了前一年的排名或者进步。
§”In terms of ranking, our goal is to make Darden consistently ranked top ten in the US” – Bob Bruner, Dean of Darden School of Business.
·Darden的学业特色
o你可能知道的：
§教授资源(Faculty)：Darden的Faculty被多家杂志给与最高的认可。如Princeton Review最新一年把Best Professors的title给了Darden（去年第二）；FT给与了Darden faculty “#1 position for the seventh year in a row” for Global Executive Education。在达顿，教书和研究是教授们最最关心的事情。
§Alumni Network校友网络：超过10000人的校友网络，超过一半在过去15年毕业– a tight-knit, committed community. 被the Economist Intelligence Unit
评为the most effective alumni network in the world (2003)。Case in point: 10-11的alumni giving Rate高达42%-所有商学院中的前三水准。
Bloomberg Businessweek gave Darden’s career services an A+ rating (2010).
The Economist ranked Darden #4 in the "open new career opportunities" and "diversity of recruiters" categories (2011).
Financial Times ranked Darden #5 for placement success (2011).
Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Darden #3 for entrepreneurship (2011).
The average starting salary and bonus for the Class of 2011 was $132,794.
Five years out of the program, the average salary is $178,000 (Forbes ranking survey).
Top Recruiters
The top 10 hiring companies at Darden for summer interns over the past three years were:
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Booz & Co.
Danaher Corporation
Deloitte
IBM Global Business Services
JP Morgan
Johnson & Johnson
McKinsey & Co.
Microsoft Corp.
