Duke MQM Student Blog

I have always been passionate about engaging in extracurricular activities and serving in whatever community I find myself.

I knew the words Fuqua and Friday, but separately, not as a term “Fuqua Friday.”

The Spring Term 1 Master of Quantitative Management (MQM) Competition is a data visualization competition where students use data to communicate and analyze problems. Alongside my teammates, Yiqi He and Selina Zhou, I participated in the competition to explore racial disparity in the United States.

We were the first set of students to ever complete the degree online. COVID and its by-products were threatening to define our final experiences at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

The 2020 MQM program career report showed success, similar to past years. This was a victory given pandemic-related declines in hiring.

Graduating during the pandemic after completing my master’s degree from my bedroom was certainly not how I pictured my final moments in the MQM program. However, those last few months brought forth a unique learning experience.

The MQM application can appear to be a very challenging task at first. But with a little help from this blog, hopefully you'll be off to a great start.

You want to make the most of your application so that you can join Team Fuqua, and I’m here to help guide you on how. First things first, it’s important to realize that Fuqua takes a very holistic approach to its admissions process.

Last fall, I had the absolute honor of representing Fuqua and Duke as a finalist in the Adobe Analytics Challenge. I was flown out to Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose, California, to present our big ideas in front of a panel of judges and a live audience.