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According to a new study published by the MBA website Poets & Quants, Darden is the only business school to be in the top 20th percentile of MBA graduate satisfaction in teaching quality for 24 consecutive years. The study is based on the satisfaction surveys of BusinessWeek (now Bloomberg Businessweek) of more than 83,000 graduates since 1988. Darden leads the story “Business Schools With the Best MBA Teaching Faculty” by John Byrne, who launched BusinessWeek’s groundbreaking rankings of business schools in the 1980s. He writes:

Only one school of all those surveyed over that 24-year span has scored in the top 20th percentile of teaching grades from graduating MBAs: the Darden School. It is an extraordinary feat achieved through the ups and downs of economic cycles, ever-rising expectations and changing student attitudes.” Read more.

Byrne also wrote a companion article, “Darden: Where Great Teachers Are Gods,” which goes inside the classroom of Darden Professor Yiorgos Allayannis for a discussion of the case study “The Weekend That Changed Wall Street.” The article discusses how Darden’s teaching environment is different from other top business schools and details the intense level of preparation that the case method requires of the Darden faculty. Nathan DeLuke, a Darden alumnus who graduated last year, notes of Professor Allayannis:

He starts by drawing you to the edge of your seat with a remarkably passionate and engaging teaching style, and then he keeps you there by driving you to make and defend specific, time-critical decisions rather than accepting easy generalizations.” Read more.