I know that the best schools are Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, etc., but I just want to know if the following schools would really help someone break into I-banking:
- Cornell (Johnson)
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
- Notre Dame (Mendoza)
- Duke (Fuqua)
- Emory (Goizueta)
- Wisconsin-Madison
- UT Austin (McCombs)
- Indiana University (Kelley)
- Ohio State University (Fisher)
Which would and which wouldn't?
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Boston College Carroll School should be included. Probably has better placement than atleast 75% of those (if you're talking about undergrad).
No, I'm talking about an MBA
Honestly, any of those would give you some shot.
I know IU, UT, UW, Duke and ND have OCR.
I figured most would be good. What about Wisonsin-Madison, though?
Where do you want to end up living?
UT is top for TX IB, almost all associates, vps, and mds I have seen in TX went to McCombs.
Emory also gets good ocr recruiting, but mainly the south and MMs, though they still get some BBs
duke is good, if you have no preference, I see Duke grads everywhere.
i dont have input on the others, mainly because I am not in those regions.
UT places very well into Houston
from your list Duke Fuqua is by far the best option if your goal is investment banking. i've seen plenty of Fuqua guys at lower BBs.
with that said...it's not safe to assume you will get a banking job if you go to Fuqua. the odds are probably still against you.
In order: Duke, Emory, Cornell, UT-Austin - the latter two are more regional in their placement.
Duke and Cornell. Not sure, but Cornell might have a larger group of students going for banking, which alters the competitive landscape. Duke and Emory suffers less from it.
Is that true? I'm simply asking b/c more Cornell guys I've seen are in S&T and in HFs, not as frequent in IBD or PE. I could be off base, but that was my general perception.
There are some people from Cornell who end up working in WS for some tier 1 bank (IBD). I've been working with one of them when I was interning and checked it out. They place in IBD...
Cornell is a good option simply for the alumni network. All of the Cornell grads I know are very eager to help out their fellow Cornellians.
If you want to work in New York, NYU Stern could be a good option. The only downside to Stern is that it is one of the more expensive schools in the country while lacking the "prestige" of schools like Wharton, Columbia, etc.
Also interested, and I'd like to include Ross, Darden and Yale to the list. About UT, since Austin IB is focused on O&G and Energy in general, do they target people with previous energy experience? Do these schools work for international students? I see a lot of European people breaking into WS from H/W, Columbia and Stern but not that much from other schools...
Columbia/W/Chicago (these guys are all over BBs and boutiques)
Drop
Stern/Tuck/Yale/Sloan/Kellogg
Drop
Cornell/Duke/Ross maybe Emory
Big Drop
Tepper/ND/UT/UNC
Hardly seen
Indiana, OSU, Wisc
Yale over Duke? I thought that Duke was much more finance focused than Yale SOM. And I though that UT placement was much better. How should UCLA and Haas be ranked in those groups?
I've seen many more Yalies across the banks I've worked at/with and during my associate recruiting process. I've come across some Duke grads at healthcare shops, but that's about it. Whether that's because it's not heavily targeted by banks as other schools or perhaps because the general interest in banking at that school is less prevalent, I'm not sure.
UCLA places well in LA/SF offices. Haas, not sure. My inclination is that the school is a much more tech/general mgt school and not as into banking. I think their biggest recruiters are blue chip tech firms like ORACLE, Salesforce.com
For UT, could be same as UCLA in that it's regional placement, but for NYC, again, hardly seen or come across both in banking or when I did my associate recruiting (CBS/W/Booth) a couple of years ago.
I'll be going to Johnson this August to get into IBD in BB. GS, DB, JP, Citi, BoA, among others, each come on campus in autumn to recruit. There are then several treks to NYC to meet with alumni, build relationships and have informationals - all before closed lists start. The proximity makes it easy and the C2C bus is no joke. I think what differentiates Cornell is the Spring Semester IB Immersion which is particularly designed to prepare you for your summer internship - it gets great reviews. Secondly, there's more one-on-one access to alumni recruiters because it's a smaller class size.
It depends if you want to get into BB in NYC or not.
Also, I wouldn't be caught dead in Madison, Columbus, or Ithaca...so there's that too
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