No question that Poets&Quants For Undergrad readers love themselves a good ranking. Of the most-clicked stories in 2023, rankings or articles analyzing rankings data accounted for more than half. Whether it’s our own proprietary undergrad business school ranking, salaries and bonuses at the top schools, or universities that offer the best chance for landing a job in tech, quant-oriented business students want to see the data.
But don’t despair, poets. There are several selections on this year’s list for you as well. These include our popular collections of the top undergrad professors, Best and Brightest business school majors, and the business schools to watch in the coming year.
Whether you are a poet or a quant, we hope you enjoy taking a look back at the year that was. Our list of the 10 most-read stories of 2023 is presented below in descending order.
10. The Favorite Business Professors Of The Class of 2023
Each year, as part of our popular 100 Best & Brightest Business Major feature, we ask students from the top business schools to tell us about the professors who most made a difference in their school careers. Their answers provide first-person insights into actual classrooms that readers are hard pressed to find anywhere else.
“As a young entrepreneur, I was lucky to learn from Professor David Haeberle. He is the son of the ‘Godfather of Entrepreneurship,’ William Haeberle, who created one of the nation’s first collegiate entrepreneurship programs,” Indiana University Kelley student Sankalp Mohan Sharma tells P&Q.
“I truly believe I learned so many little things in his class that go beyond the class material. His tips on wealth creation and idea generation – as well as little things like the best ways to connect with a VC – are extremely invaluable. Many of the concepts taught in class and the little nuggets that he dropped here and there were extremely unique and inspiring.”
These kinds of first-person reviews helped this story become one of our most read of 2023. Read about other great professors here.
9. Ranking: Universities Most Likely To Land You A Job In Tech
By and large, most P&Q readers are prospective business school students looking for data to help inform important decisions about schools, majors, career, and more. That’s why data-driven stories are consistently some of the most clicked on our site.
This year’s ninth most-viewed story is no exception: Ranking the universities most likely to lead to a career in tech. The study by Hubs.com analyzed more than 700,000 Linkedin profiles to determine the colleges and universities most likely to land a job at one of the world’s top 50 tech firms.
In perhaps the least surprising news from the study, Stanford University has the highest number of alumni (16,326) who have been employed at top tech destinations such as Google, Amazon, and Apple. University of California Berkeley, just across the Bay, is a close second with 16,124.