Robins School of Business

We are the Change Makers

Welcome to the Robins School of Business. Here, we invite new perspectives and fresh ideas. We look beyond ourselves and our campus to learn from the world around us.

We surround ourselves with experts from our esteemed faculty to our Executives in Residence. We provide labs and fellowships to help students dig deep, learn outside the classroom, and develop skills to make a lasting impact.

We do all of this so that we are ready for the challenges of tomorrow. Because we want to make change that lasts. Because no idea is too big for this place.

Will you join us?

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Undergraduate Business at Robins

As a highly ranked business school at a Top 20 liberal arts university, the Robins School challenges and encourages students to draw real-world connections across disciplines. Students use this holistic understanding to pursue self-driven study projects and internships that often lead to job offers upon graduation.

Robins School celebrates 75 years of impact

#18

Poets&Quants' Best Undergraduate Business Schools Ranking 2024

Top 25

best colleges for accounting by GradReports

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School Highlights

Sara Hanson
Sara Hanson Recognized with Teaching Award

The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges recognized Sara Hanson, associate professor of marketing, with the 2024 H. Hiter Harris III Excellence in Instructional Technology Award.

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M. Saif Mehkari
Saif Mehkari Recognized as Distinguished Advisor

Saif Mehkari, associate professor of economics, received this year's Distinguished Advisor Award from the University of Richmond. The award recognizes an advisor's commitment to their students' academic and personal development, demonstrated through work as a support, resource, and advocate. 

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Patricio Duran
Professor Awarded Best Entrepreneurship in Family Business Paper

Management professor Patricio Duran was awarded the Best Entrepreneurship in Family Business Paper at the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference for his research, "Publicly-listed family-controlled firms and corporate venture capital."

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Ashley Austin
Ashley Austin Awarded Grant Funding for AI Research

Accounting professor Ashley Austin received a grant from accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers to support new research on the use of AI in audits. Austin and her partners at the University of Virginia and University of Georgia will develop strategies to help auditors examine AI-generated financial reports with sufficient skepticism.

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Graduate Programs

Whether you just graduated from college or have been working for a number of years, Robins helps graduate students advance in their careers with full-time, part-time, and ongoing educational opportunities at the graduate level.

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