Integrated Core Curriculum

The Integrated Core Experience (ICE), McIntire's third-year curriculum, emphasizes the development of integrated analytical, strategic, and behavioral skills that address real business problems. The curriculum is carefully coordinated to eliminate redundancy and to allow the introduction of critical new topics. 

The two-semester program is composed of 12 credit hours in the fall semester and nine credit hours in the spring semester. For detailed information, please consult the University of Virginia Undergraduate Record.

How ICE Works

• Students engage in a coherent, integrated series of six sessions of business theory and practice throughout a two-semester period rather than taking separate core courses. Blocks of 40 students learn by working in small teams to solve actual business problems and by presenting and defending their solutions to classmates, faculty and participating corporate leaders. 

• Professors team-teach and interact with one another and with students in a rigorous yet informal seminar atmosphere. Course material is presented in a cross-functional manner that provides students with a working knowledge of how different subject areas relate.

• World-class business leaders introduce students to the most current business issues and practices through videoconference presentations and discussions.

Because the course material is presented in a cross-functional manner, students will find it easier to apply what they learn to complex business problems in the classroom—and in the real world. McIntire students are prepared “to hit the ground running.”