Division of Development and Alumni Relations

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Since its founding in 1919 as the School of Commerce, the Darla Moore School of Business has grown into a thriving site of academic excellence, with an enrollment of more than 4,000 undergraduate students and over 800 graduate students. The faculty is composed of 123 teachers, scholars, and practitioners whose expertise covers the full range of business disciplines and who were themselves educated at many of the finest universities in the world.

About the Darla Moore School of Business

The Moore School is perhaps best known for its outstanding leadership in international business education and research. For the past 16 years, the school's undergraduate major in international business has been ranked No. 1 in that specialty, and its International Master of Business Administration program has been ranked in the top 3 for 24 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report.

In the 2011 Global MBA Rankings by the Financial Times of London, Moore's MBA program ranks No. 2 in the International Business category.

Study abroad has always been part of the Moore School's top ranked international business program. Now, through 35 newly established global partnership exchange agreements, the Moore School will send roughly 120 students to the premiere business schools in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America and teach nearly the same number of students from those universities at the University of South Carolina. To read more about this amazing accomplishment click here.

In the fall of 2009, we launched two new innovative programs to further advance our cutting-edge delivery of international business programming. The first is a Master of International Business (MIB) program, an intensive, one-year, interdisciplinary program that provides an advanced understanding of the interactions of business, government, and society.

The other is a collaborative undergraduate degree program with the Chinese University of Hong Kong that includes two years of study in Hong Kong and will ultimately build a U.S.-Chinese partnership capable of conducting business in both cultures.

On September 23, 2011 we broke ground on a new home for the Darla Moore School of Business at the gateway to the Innovista, the University’s innovative research district in downtown Columbia. When completed in 2013, the new facility will feature cutting-edge architecture and technology for our students and faculty, and also reflect state-of-the-art, high-performance and sustainable design. 

We have also embarked on a theme of sustainable enterprise and development to complement our international business expertise and meet our school’s desire to be socially, organizationally and environmentally innovative and responsible. 

We're honored that the Moore School was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2010 to partner with DOE national laboratories in its Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building Partnership program. This prestigious program will help the Moore School reach its ambitious goal of achieving net-zero energy consumption in its new building.

Priorities

Strengthened by the firm foundation of support from USC alumnae Darla Moore and other passionate alumni and friends, the Moore School is positioned to increase its impact on business and society, as well as expand its global reputation as a leader among business schools.

We are honored by each investment in our mission, and we pledge to carry on our school’s tradition of providing exceptional educational programs and experiences that prepare individuals to make sustained contributions to business and society.

Please consider investing in the great promise of the Darla Moore School of Business by supporting our:

• Initiative One: Grow the School's reputation as a world-class research institution.
• Initiative Two: Enhance the School's reputation as a thought-leader in international business.
• Initiative Three: Enhance the reputation of core academic programs.
• Initiative Four: Implement an organizational structure, incentive system and discretionary resource base, technological environment and physical infrastructure platforms to foster innovation, reputation, enhancement and revenue growth in the school to achieve research and teaching mission objectives.
• Initiative Five: Launch and institutionalize a Corporate Solutions division to develop alliances in South Carolina and beyond incorporating a range of non-philanthropic activities deemed strategically valuable to partner and key client organizations.