I recently committed to Cornell University for my bachelor's degree. I will be attending the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and will be majoring in AEM with a concentration in Finance. What are the job prospects like for a graduate from this university? Is there heavy recruitment from the top banks on Wall Street (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley etc.)?
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Cornell's Dyson school? Great program. You'll do just fine.
I just was accepted at the College of Engineering and am planning on majoring in Operations Research and Engineering and minoring in AEM. How is the recruitment for IB and PE (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Blackstone)
Is it any good, or should I try to be transferring into AEM after a year or two?
Recruitment at Cornell is largely major-agnostic; no matter what you study, you have a shot at landing IBD. The best kids across the school will typically take the top spots, but if you're good enough you shouldn't have a problem landing BB IBD. Just meet the right people, join the right organizations, and network well, and you shouldn't have a problem in either OR or AEM.
PE recruiting is a bit more lackluster, and you're unlikely to get offers at places that hire out of undergrad (the exception is with REPE thanks to the strong real estate program in the Hotel school). Once in a blue moon you'll see someone land a SA spot at something like Apollo or Apax, but chances of a full-time offer straight out of Cornell are slim.
You'll be in a good shape as long as you join one of the investment clubs or one of the business fraternities. As mentioned, recruiting is more or less major-agnostic and the ways you can differentiate yourself is through the aforementioned organizations. The business fraternities especially have crazy pull - 9 of the 10 GS IBD interns from last summer were involved.
All BBs come to campus although MS only does so for S&T and only hires diversity candidates for IBD from Cornell. Generally GS/BAML/Barclays each take like 10 kids for IBD, JPM/UBS/Guggenheim/RBC each take like 5 or so and the rest of the BBs each take like 2 or 3. EBs don't really recruit as much but Lazard/Moelis/Evercore/PWP each take 2 kids pretty consistently every year.
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