For four years in a row, the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has been named a Top 40 school for undergraduate business education by Poets&Quants, with high marks this spring for career outcomes, admissions standards, and academic experiences.
Elon University’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has climbed to No. 38 in the country for undergraduate business education in 2025 rankings released this week by business education news outlet Poets&Quants for Undergrads.
The school improved two spots from last year’s No. 40 ranking.
Among the individual components of the 2025 ranking, Elon:
- Improved its career outcomes ranking to 24, up from 28 last year
- Improved its admissions standards rank to 54, up from 64 last year
- Maintained its academic experience rank at 17
- Ranked 24 among private universities
Raghu Tadepalli, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, said the continued rise in the rankings demonstrates how the school’s focus on student success leads to strong postgraduate results.
“Seeing Elon’s business program advance in rankings is a powerful affirmation of our commitment to preparing students for meaningful careers and lifelong success,” Tadepalli said. “I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and look forward to how the program will continue to innovate and excel under the leadership of our incoming dean, Dr. Haya Ajjan.”
Poets&Quants for Undergrads compiles its rankings based on school-reported data and a survey of alumni. The methodology considers three primary components:
- Admissions Standards – student quality and diversity, including acceptance rates, academic performance and representation of first-generation and underrepresented students.
- Academic Experience – how effectively a business school nurtures, challenges and supports students, assessed via alumni surveys about their satisfaction and major projects undertaken while in the program.
- Career Outcomes – how graduates fare in the job market, including percentage of students with internships, placement rates within three months of graduation, and average starting salaries and signing bonuses.
Poets&Quants for Undergrads expanded the ranking to 104 participating schools this year and introduced several methodological updates in the admissions standards category, including the addition of a six-year graduation rate (weighted 20%) and average high school GPA (weighted 15%), while removing the National Merit Scholar metric.
The outlet now collects two years of data for Career Outcomes and uses a sliding scale to give partial credit for alumni survey results when response rates are below 10%. According to Poets&Quants, these changes provide a more comprehensive measure of each business program.
For more information about how Poets&Quants calculates its rankings, visit their website to view the full methodology.
About Poets&Quants
Poets&Quants is led by Editor-in-Chief John Byrne, founder of C-Change Media and former executive editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, Businessweek.com and Fast Company. Byrne originated the first regularly published rankings of business schools for Businessweek in 1988 and has authored several business school guidebooks.