Duke MQM Student Blog

Aided by a job market favoring job-seekers, 2022 was the best year yet in terms of employment outcomes for MQM students.

Now four terms into MQM, I’m excited to share that I secured my first job in tech, and I wanted to share my experience and some tips on how I got to this point!

The MQM program equipped me with the skills necessary to hold my own in a fast-paced, results-oriented work culture.

I was faced with the dilemma of choosing which track would be the best fit for me. As I read about the Forensics track, I was immediately drawn to it, as a good way to apply my interest in data analytics in a growing career field.

The past 18 months have been uniquely challenging, given the prolonged effects of the pandemic on workforce trends, but I’m pleased to say the MQM class of 2021 persisted and achieved a strong set of outcomes.

Strategy, finance, forensics, or marketing? This was the same question that troubled me as I went through the application process at Fuqua.

I wanted to know exactly how I could evaluate financial data with analytics tools, but I lacked finance knowledge.

A big reason as to why I chose the Master of Quantitative Management (MQM) program was the ability to dive deep into a particular area of business.

The Business Communicatio and Data Visualization classes helped me to spend more time thinking and practicing how to present data analytics results.

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.