Job Title: Business Analyst

I am working in Boston in the Analyst Development Program at Liberty Mutual Insurance. As an insurance company, Liberty possesses massive amounts of data, and this role gives me the opportunity to apply much of what I learned in QSS including statistical analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization. My work revolves around tackling complex quantitative questions and communicating my results effectively, and the QSS minor played a big part in preparing me for this job.

Job Title: Data Analyst

After graduating in 2024, I began working at Alvarez & Marsal in the Global Transaction Analytics (GTA) group. As my QSS major concentrated in Economics, I wanted to find a job where I could utilize the skills I learned through the major and apply them in a business context. The GTA team works with private equity firms and corporations to provide analytics as a service. My job, in simplest terms, is to use data to tell the commercial story of a company. Though most data I initially receive is messy and incomplete, the skills I learned in QSS 20 help me clean and analyze these data. As a project develops, I lean on the foundations I built in QSS 17 when creating visualizations that clearly and dynamically express business insights. Like the major I designed, my work lies at the intersection of data and markets. I am incredibly grateful to Dartmouth and the QSS program for preparing me with the skills I need as I head into my career.

Job Title: Medical Education

For as long as I can remember, I've looked forward to a career in medicine. So, next fall, I'm excited to begin my medical education at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. While I'm unsure where exactly this path will take me, I hope to one day practice in an academic setting—learning, teaching, and caring for patients.

Job Title: Analyst On Congress And The Legislative Process

After earning a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, I now work as an Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process at the Congressional Research Service. In both graduate school and my current job, I constantly utilize the research skills and critical thinking I developed as a QSS major. From Quantitative Political Analysis (GOVT 10) to Sports Analytics (QSS 30.01) to Major Thesis Research (QSS 81), every QSS class gave me a new way to think about the world. More than anything, I learned how to tackle uncertainty and evaluate the quality of evidence presented to me. Thank you to all of the awesome QSS faculty for your support, dedication, and incredible insight!

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Zach is an Engineering Lead at AngelList, which helps startups raise money and makes it easy to invest in private markets. He lives in DC with his wife Jessie Anderson '18.

Job Title: Database Analyst

I am working as a Database Analyst at Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) in Arlington, Virginia. The company works with major organizations to help them understand their data and, in turn, make data-driven decisions. As an intern at APT last summer, I worked with a leading insurance provider to automate their data feeds. My present role sits between software engineers and consultants; I simultaneously work internally with databases and interface directly with clients. QSS showed me how to handle this hybrid—not only how to ingest sets of big data but also how to communicate the real-world implications of data. This attention to skillsets enabled me to serve as the lone database analyst on a client team last summer, and I look forward to further applying the skills in learned in QSS in my full-time role at APT.

Job Title: Consultant

I am currently an Associate at L.E.K. Consulting's Boston office, where my colleagues and I collaborate with teams across the country to help companies and non-profits solve their business strategy questions. At work, I use the research skills I developed while working on my QSS thesis to efficiently gather data and understand its implications. So far, I have found the transition into my role much easier than it may have been, since the QSS major's coursework and my thesis had already exposed me to the imprecisions and nuances of data collection.