College Rankings for IBD in NYC:
Based on placement in NY, not on academics. Things can vary, but this is a solid list for people trying to get to schools with consistent placement:
Wharton Harvard Columbia Yale U Chicago NYU Cornell Princeton Stanford MIT Dartmouth Brown Northwestern UVA Notre Dame Duke Emory Lehigh Georgetown Michigan UT Austin UNC Claremont McKenna Vanderbilt Penn State Villanova Middlebury Indiana U of Florida Fordham Texas A&M Georgia Wake Forest SMU Boston College Minnesota USC Michigan State Ohio State U of Illinois Missouri Rutgers FSU Iowa Alabama Ole Miss Arizona State
Look who went to Lehigh
Big Ten and SEC schools with huge alumni bases (and schools with nationally recognized sports programs) are pretty underrated. They obviously don’t place a ton of folks but when I worked in IB I was still a little surprised at how folks were willing to go to bat for a Big Ten/SEC/Big 12 kid.
Over the years I’ve met handfuls of kids from Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Iowa at different networking events. Mostly from regional offices.
I agree. I've seen a lot of state schools, like you mentioned, and the top kids there do just as good of a job. They're usually very passionate, technically proficient, and fun to work with.
Have seen and worked with across many cities.
Just imagine how low per capita BB placement is at these schools with hoards and hoards of finance kids
lets take Rutgers for example. 10k kids per class, assume 25% are finance -> 2.5k
of course not all will recruit for IB, but let’s not get too complicated.
say, conservatively (it’s probably less), 25 kids place BB or EB each year…
thats 1%
I understand your math, and you arent wrong. However, what you have to understand is that kids at non-target state schools don't live and breathe finance. They are more interested in figuring out how they are going to get laid this weekend than why their corpfin professor didn't like their WACC assumptions. 90% of kids don't know or care about what IB is and end up in F500 rotational programs, no name consulting, big 4, etc. At my big10, nearly everyone who put in strong effort to get an offer got one at at least a regional bank like 5/3 or something with most getting solid MM or BB/EB.
seeing arizona state on the same list as harvard is a disgrace
They place.
yea no shit theres like 70k undergrads there u moron
harvard = ugly minority goblins
asu = sorority goddesses
Realistically, it's more like this, for any high schoolers actually interested. This is mostly based on per placement capita, interest from the student body and % of IB classes. Of course, I think I'm mixing in a bit of buy-side prowess in here, but that would be a whole different list, with WHPD making up the top 4. Just my 2 cents as my team's recruiting lead.
Georgetown should be in 3rd bucket at the lowest if you're going by the number of FT analysts they produce each year...They place a similar number to Harvard/Wharton. It's likely they send more FT analysts to NY than MIT, Brown, Stanford, Northwestern, and Duke. NYU is also missing and should be in 2nd or 3rd.