The data and rankings were compiled by Poets & Quants, a business education news outlet that last year ranked the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business No. 39 in the U.S. overall.
Elon’s undergraduate business program at the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is among the country’s top-ranked programs with the highest percentage of under-represented U.S. minorities enrolling in fall 2016, according to data released by business education news outlet Poets & Quants.
Poets & Quants defined under-represented U.S. minorities as “Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.”
In its inaugural survey of undergraduate business programs at private and public institutions, Poets & Quants ranked Elon 39th overall. The survey methodology focused on school admissions standards, alumni perspectives on the educational experience and employment data. Elon ranked 30th for academic experience, 32nd for the employment of its graduates and 44th in admissions standards.
Poets & Quants is headed by Editor-in-Chief John Byrne, who along with being the founder of C-Change Media formerly served as executive editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, Businessweek.com and Fast Company. He created the first regularly published rankings of business schools for Businessweek in 1988 and has authored several business school guidebooks.