McIntire also offers all UVA students non-degree Commerce Essentials courses, asynchronous one-half-credit online classes that are roughly 8-10 hours long and cover contemporary business subjects and practical skills in multiple areas.

[2][3] Over the next three decades McIntire operated as a separate entity from the College of Arts and Sciences, but worked closely with the James Wilson School of Economics.

[4] The McIntire School has had five sitting deans: Frank S. Kaulback Jr. (1956-1977), Bill Shenkir (1977-1992), Bonnie Guiton Hill (1992-1996), Carl Zeithaml (1997-2020), Nicole Thorne Jenkins (2020-present).

Professors conduct subject-based coursework on a rotating basis to provide students with opportunities to solve unstructured, challenging business problems, and work through them using a holistic, team-based approach.

Each team assumes the role of an analyst, and works on a semesterlong project for one of four Fortune 500 companies (Allianz,CarMax, Hilton, or [solidcore], in the 2024–2025 academic year).

The team-based project requires students to advise senior management on a problem or objective the company is facing.

McIntire students can also choose to study in an area of specialty that spans across several disciplines, called a "track."

McIntire offers tracks in Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Global Commerce, Quantitative Finance, Real Estate, and Strategic Brand Consulting & Communications.

The required GIE is an in-depth overview of the student’s designated region during a one-week residency in Charlottesville, followed by overseas travel with a class cohort on an intensive three-week schedule of academic, company, and cultural visits.

The program helps students understand how current and emerging technologies can best be applied to make their organizations more profitable, productive, and competitive.

The Northern Virginia-based executive format of the program allows working professionals from a wide range of industries and functional areas of expertise to remain on the job while completing their degree.

Intended for early-career professionals with a minimum of two years of work experience, the program combines weekend, in-person, and online instruction to offer students a broad mix of analytical and technical skills as well as foundational business knowledge and leadership instruction.

in Commerce was ranked first among one-year, pre-work-experience master's in management programs by higher education research website Value Colleges.

In 2024, Poets & Quants, an established source on business schools education, has ranked McIntire as #4 best undergraduate program in the US.