The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has vaulted nine spots in Poets & Quants’ 2025 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship, securing its place at No. 10. This recognition is mirrored by Darden’s rank at No.
8 in a recent list of top MBA programs for entrepreneurship compiled by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. Darden’s impressive performance is attributed to robust support for aspiring entrepreneurs, world-class faculty, and a focused curriculum. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur rankings highlight Darden’s substantial endowment and how faculty have helped create entrepreneurship as a discipline in business academia.
Additionally, Poets & Quants emphasized Darden’s 83 courses related to entrepreneurship and the 274 companies started by graduates over the last five years.
Darden’s rise in entrepreneurship programs
Poets & Quants gathered data from participating business schools in 16 categories to compile its 2025 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship list.
Darden’s Top 10 ranking was powered by its strong performance in several categories:
– Darden was #2 among schools for the percentage of elective courses offered that focus solely on entrepreneurship or innovation. – Darden was #2 in the category reflecting the percent of MBA faculty teaching at least one entrepreneurship or innovation-focused course during the last academic year. – Darden was #2 among schools for the percentage of MBA students who took an entrepreneurship elective in the 2023-24 academic year.
Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA, and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation prepare responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences, setting the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership, and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area, and a global community of 18,000 alumni in 90 countries.
Established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia, Darden continues to excel in innovating and supporting the next generation of business leaders.
