Darden School of Business

How it scores

Percentiles among 107 business schools.

The numbers

Median base salary

$175,000 (2025) src

Employed within 3 months

89% (2025) src

Average GMAT

725 (classic GMAT; 94th percentile) (2025) src

Full-time MBA class size

361 (2025) src

Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)

24.7 (2021-2025) src

MBA alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)

195 (2026) src

Salary, employment, GMAT and class figures come from the school’s own published MBA reports (or, where marked, its figures as reproduced by Bloomberg Businessweek or Poets&Quants); each links to its source. Schools not on a published alumni list are estimated below the list’s cutoff.