Actual Global Undergrad Tier List
This is the most thorough tier list of institutions of higher learning's undergraduate programs, sorted by an aggregate of success rate into MBB, IBD and PE and international perception/prestige. Inaccurate metrics such as total placement, placement per capita, on-campus recruiting, geographical location or alumni base are eliminated from the aggregate data.
The metrics for schools in each tier fall within roughly 0.414 standard deviations of each other. Within tiers, there are no particular order of schools. This list only covers institutions of higher learning in developed countries (G7 + Hong Kong, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and regions without developed status by FTSE nor MSCI, but has a sufficiently developed capital markets infrastructure on par with G7 countries).
Tier White
"A student from this school has roughly a 27-33% chance of breaking into MBB, IBD or PE in developed regions."
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- LSE
- Harvard
- Yale
- UPenn (Wharton only)
- ETH Zurich
- Tsinghua
- Kyoto
- Tokyo
Tier Gold
"A student from this school has roughly a 14-26% chance of breaking into MBB, IBD or PE in developed regions."
- Dartmouth
- Cornell
- Princeton
- UVA
- MIT
- Warwick
- Imperial
- UCL
- HEC Montreal
- Peking
- Melbourne
- TUM
Tier Grey
"A student from this school has roughly a 11-13% chance of breaking into MBB, IBD or PE in developed regions."
- Georgetown
- Notre Dame
- Michigan (Ross only)
- UToronto
- St Andrews
- KCL
- Manchester
- ANU
- Sydney
- Bocconi
Tier Brown
"A student from this school has roughly a 3-13% chance of breaking into MBB, IBD or PE in developed regions."
- NYU (Stern only)
- Columbia
- Chicago
- UC Berkeley (Haas only)
- Caltech
- Queen's (Canada)
- McGill
- etc
Tier Black
"A student from this school has <3% chance of breaking into MBB, IBD or PE in developed regions."
I'm only going to include overrated schools that most would think are at least Tier Brown, well known or notable schools in this category, otherwise it would encompass pretty much every school in the developed world.
- USC (Marshall only)
- IU (Kelley only)
- Stanford
- Western (Ivey only)
- Northwestern
- etc
Pretty accurate so far, especially because the success rates have shifted a lot this year. I'd put Princeton one tier down and Bocconi up a tier though.
Found the UVA kid
Why the fuck is Dartmouth that high, and I don't see a single german or french uni on here
nepotism
I'm gonna base my kids future on this list
unironically accurate, even though i noticed you sorted the tiers from best to worst from white to brown to black (tf is wrong with you)
its very private-centric, because it left out some hidden gems like ut austin and ucla
Neither of those schools are hidden gems lol in fact UCLA is one of the worst schools for finance compared to peer schools
Manchester is arguably the biggest troll aspect of this thread tbh.
that TUM was included in the same tier as MIT, UCL, Imperial, Warwick, Princeton, Dartmouth and HEC is the much bigger troll
the usual pipelines from canada are drier than my wife ever since trump fucked with their visas
make another one based on how hot the girls are and itll be reversed
Western Ivey and Queens should at least be the same tier as uToronto if not higher. I don’t know if anyone from uToronto goes to US banks. It is a good feeder for MBB though
Western uses a 2 year program, meaning kids under x gpa are filtered out entirely, skewing data heavily in their favor because everyone in their b school has over ~3.8 gpa.
McGill and Queen's run the show domestically, why UToronto is by far the most represented international school found in Asia-Pacific, having even more presence there than McGill or Queen's does in Canada and the US combined.
Re your comment on UT in APAC, that is correct. UT has the most non-biz brand recognition out of any Canadian school. However, if we are talking about biz, UT is not really in the discussion. McGill and Queens are great schools, however, they do not "run the show" domestically. Ivey performs the best domestically, with Queens as a very close second. McGill is not considered to be in the same tier, however, they still do great regardless.
Side note, you placed HEC Montreal as the #1 school in Canada and in the same category as schools like Dartmouth/MIT? Anyone from Canada would read that and assume to be a troll
Read it bottom to top and its the ranking of likelihood of getting pussy in college. This is why I went to Blue Mountain State and now proudly work at GS/MS/Tobin & Co as an extern.
Clearly not from Canada if you're placing UofT anywhere on a list, especially above Queens and Ivey.
Ivey is massively overrated on forums like WSO because of the US centric nature of these forums. People working in the US see Ivey overrepresented in the states relative to their b school size, so they tend to think it's more of a "target" than Smith (Queens) or Desautels (McGill) who really dominate up north.
Nobody's mentioned stanford being on the very fuckin bottom?
Whoever made this has zero clue what they're talking about. Princeton is definitely white. No way in hell is UVA even remotely close to gold lol. And why tf is my alma mater Columbia in tier brown? Columbia students go straight to buy side and skip that beta IB life. Don't think Stern or Georgetown should be that low either. List was made by some UVA kid trying to steal clout. UVA kids make me laugh.
Yeah a bunch of my friends and I went straight buyside. Laughable that you try to sneak in Dartmouth with HYW. Dartmouth is for people who couldn't get into a good ivy and chose Dartmouth so their parents could brag their kids go to an ivy. And trying to group Princeton with Brown and Cornell (UCLA is not even a semi target) is also a joke.