McIntire’s innovative specialized business graduate degrees and its hallmark undergraduate program are designed to create a wealth of opportunities for students. Immersive, hands-on courses offer transformative educational experiences that provide immediate value. Our faculty-led programs provide key business skills and fluency in many business areas.
McIntire faculty inspire students to lead with integrity and purpose when confronting today’s grand challenges in business. Our bold and brilliant professors are also committed scholars who conduct cutting-edge research through seven active centers that serve as the School's nexus of collaboration and interdisciplinary exploration.
In addition to the lifelong benefits that come from an innovative McIntire business education, Commerce School students enjoy an enhanced UVA experience on Grounds and around the globe. From insightful student services that help connect you with your passion to specialized career support that provides real-world employment opportunities, there are countless ways to make the most of your present while investing in your future.
McIntire School of Commerce
In the School of Commerce, we believe the most valuable commodity is intellectual exchange. Contributing new knowledge across traditional business disciplines and emerging areas, our faculty are big thinkers who transform potential into reality through research, innovation, and industry engagement. Home to seven dynamic research centers, the School is a renowned nexus for the business leaders of today and tomorrow.
Professor of Commerce,Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs,Cohen Bicentennial Professor of Commerce
Associate Professor of Commerce,Area Coordinator—Information Technology & Innovation
Richard D. Wood Bicentennial Professor of Commerce,Area Coordinator—Management
The McIntire School of Commerce is home to seven active centers that serve as the School’s nexus of collaboration, helping to foster knowledge exploration and facilitate interdisciplinary learning opportunities for students, industry, and academia.
Serving as McIntire’s organizational hub for analytics-related initiatives, the Center for Business Analytics drives our industry-oriented research through corporate partnerships to develop innovative coursework and enhance curricula across the School. The Center also organizes and hosts conferences, workshops, and a myriad of student-facing events that showcase our alumni and thought leaders across the field of analytics.
The Center for Investors and Financial Markets supports the purposeful exchange of ideas around finance through faculty research, curriculum innovation, and scholarly and professional outreach. The Center’s focus is to promote a core mission of advancing study and teaching that emphasize creativity in the practice of corporate finance and investing. Striving to promote understanding about the investor community and the performance and structure of financial markets, CIFM fosters collaborative relationships among faculty, students, finance professionals, and policymakers.
The Center for Global Commerce leads the planning and implementation of a sustained, integrative, and global strategy for the McIntire School. By supporting faculty in the development of international curriculum and globally positioned courses, including study-abroad programs, the Center fosters international research opportunities; actively encourages and funds global scholarship; and plays a primary role in facilitating relationships with global business enterprises, international academic institutions, visiting professors, and alumni throughout the world.
Established in 1991, the McIntire School of Commerce's Center for the Management of Information Technology provides opportunities for businesses and academia to collaborate on research and development related to IT. CMIT provides support for high-impact research projects by McIntire faculty and has hosted more than 100 programs to date, including the annual Knowledge ∞ Continuum, the Center’s highly regarded executive engagement programming that brings internationally recognized authors and speakers together with our alumni and other interested industry leaders.
The Galant Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship encourages, educates, and empowers students—past and present—to take on roles in the startup community that create positive impact and lasting value in the global marketplace. By developing and supporting courses in startup-related initiatives, pitch competitions, speaker events, travel-based experiences, and student-focused organizations such as the Entrepreneurship Group at UVA, HackCville, and the Virginia Venture Fund, the Galant Center seeks to catalyze entrepreneurial activity not only within the McIntire School, but also across and beyond the Grounds of the University of Virginia.
The PwC Center for Innovation in Professional Services aims to advance the collective knowledge of the professional services industry by sponsoring in-depth, faculty-driven programs during the academic year. Through student-focused educational events, CIPS engages the McIntire learning community and professionals interested in sharing best practices in the field. The Center also promotes relevant program outcomes to a broader audience. From expert guest speaker sessions to facilitated panel discussions, CIPS integrates programmatic initiatives into the McIntire curriculum to supplement our student learning experience.
The White Ruffin Byron Center for Real Estate exists to build bridges and to support the exchange of knowledge about real estate and the built environment across Grounds. Established in 2021, the Center creates and supports collaborative and multidisciplinary programming for its stakeholders that promotes new understandings of real estate markets and their connections to society through the built environment. Endeavoring to enhance the real estate experience at UVA for students, faculty, alumni, and industry partners, the Center pursues its mission through academic program support, research, and outreach.