Best Undergrad Schools for IB recruiting
which schools have the most Ibanks come to their on campus recruitings. I am a senior in high school and I plant to get into investment banking. I will probably transfer schools after my freshman year. I am just wondering to which one would be the most beneficial. Also if you have any knowledge/experience about transfering to other schools would be great!
I'll save you the humiliation of getting ms thrown at you. Use the search function please, literally a 1000 threads on this
The "Search WSO" function isn't a Christmas decoration; It does work.
The utter lack of initiative displayed by OP is absolutely ridiculous. Not to mention that he should have thought about this several months ago.
Take some initiative bru
Nevada State............. penitentiary
I have researched this a million times.. Harvard, wharton, yale, princeton, cornell, MIT, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and Brown seemed to be the top choices. The previous threads were pretty old, just curious to see if anything changed since then.
Stanford and Brown are definitely no nos, especially brown.. Michigan-Ross, NYU-Stern, UCB-Haas, and UVA-McIntyre are all great...in recent years I've seen Indiana-Kelley (IB Workshop), Vanderbilt, and UNC-Chapel Hill get a lot stronger.
I mean, they've become semi-target rather than target
read us news top 50 business schools
Someone PM'd me about what I said above. I was referring to Stanford/Brown becoming semi-target rather than target, the ones mentioned after (Kelley, Vandy, UNC) are all rising.
Best Undergrads for Investment Bankers according to LinkedIn (Originally Posted: 05/02/2015)
I know this topic has been discussed extensively on WSO, but I came across this ranking on LinkedIn of the best schools for investment banking. Honestly, I was a little surprised by the findings. Of course, there are the usual suspects, but I had no idea that non-targets like Boston College, Rice and Notre Dame were so heavily represented. Also, what do you make of Middlebury and Amherst appearing on this list? They are elite LACs, but do they really get that much OCR? Their ranking is based off of the percentage of alumni from each school who work at BB IB. 1) Georgetown 2) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3) Yale 4) Duke 5) Columbia 6) Princeton 7) NYU 8) Wellesley 9) Cornell 10) Dartmouth 11) Harvard 12) Amherst 13) Brown 14) Boston College 15) Emory 16) Notre Dame 17) UChicago 18) Middlebury 19) Rice 20) UMich contd here: https://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us/undergraduate-investment-banki…
This metric isn't the most effective way to evaluate which schools are best for getting into IB. Small schools that have an abundance of rich kids with connections have their rankings inflated, whereas larger universities such as Michigan, UVA, and UNC are ranked lower only owning to their increased diversity. This explains why certain schools such as Wellesley and Amherst are ranked so highly when they shouldn't (they still place well into IB, though.)
Also, I have never heard of BC, Notre Dame, and Rice referred to as non-targets.
Really? Who recruits at Rice?
Also, if rich kids with connections inflate the rankings of smaller schools, why isn't Williams on this list?
% of alumni? Would rather see actual # of people. Rice probably sends...5? a year into IB. Haven't heard of many BC or Brown either...
Not sure how Rice is over Mich and UVA, doesnt seem credible. Studies like this often dont distinguish between FO and BO, they just filter by "Analyst" at x bank and every BO person on LinkedIn leaves their title as "Analyst" and not "Operations Analyst" or "Back Office Analyst".
Ranking based on percentage is obviously not a good idea. Schools with higher enrollments don't necessarily have more students competing for IB. Ranking schools on an absolute basis makes sense here.
Schools that have particularly strong IB placement and are not listed here include UVA, Indiana, Baruch, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UNC, BYU, Texas, Vanderbilt, WUSTL
Is placement at WUSTL really that good? I haven't heard of any banks that recruit there.
Second this. Pretty solid list of schools that should be higher.
I'm pretty sure Texas has better placement than Rice, both on the undergrad as well as MBA level.
Yes, I would agree with this. Nevertheless, Rice still places well in the South.
Stupid thread is stupid. Excluding powerhouse schools such as UVa, Indiana, Berkeley, UCLA, UNC, etc. is criminal.
Best undergrad for IBD (Originally Posted: 12/17/2012)
Out of the schools below that I'm looking at, which would be the best to break into a BB. I am a high school senior.
University of Michigan (apply to Ross sophomore year) Indiana University (Kelley direct admit) Boston College (CSOM)
-Still waiting on UVA
I would like to add I am a Michigan resident
mich=indiana>>bc, UVA greater than them all though.
Many would tell you to go to Michigan because Ross is the better business school (by rankings this is likely true). However, I would just note that it's worth taking pause to consider Indiana, given that you are a direct admit to Kelley. A lot of this would hinge on whether you are paying out of state tuition for both or whether one is in state. If you can get into Indiana's Investment Banking Seminar / Workshop, your placement opportunities to a banking role somewhere are nearly 100%. They place well to Chicago, and I personally have worked with several Kelley kids at my bank in New York.
Ross also has great placement to Chicago and New York, and has a more universally recognized business school. If Michigan is cheaper for you, then I would go that route, but if Indiana is cheaper and you don't absolutely want to go to Michigan, then pick Kelley.
For the record, I have worked with a kid from BC as well, and he was a stud analyst and left for a top Middle Market PE shop. It really just depends on the cost of tuition and your desire to attend each respective school. If I were making the decision, and cost was roughly the same across these schools, I would pick the school I wanted to attend the most for all reasons (including culture, party scene, tradition, et al).
Not a bad choice among these.
Try for UVA especially if you get in state tuition.
Michigan is slightly more prestigious, but they're both state schools and have similar dynamics going on where the upper crust kids are great and then are the kids who get in b/c they're instate and have decent grades. You can break into IB from either one, but neither carries the prestige of a private so I would choose based on which one you like more. Being at the top of Ross is harder than at the top of IU, and it may be more fun to go to an easier school that is similar socially. I would definitely consider BC CSOM as well, but they are definitely more of a semi target where lots of kids end up at MM shops and the BB's aren't taking like 20 kids or whatever. If you get into UVA mcintire, it's slightly better than Ross and so I would just go to whichever school you like the most as they are all about the same in terms of opportunities (and even lifestyle, IU, UVA, Mich are all huge on frats and parties apparently)
Let's be clear though... the BBs aren't taking 20 kids from any school
I'm going to Indiana next year. PM me
My school sent 10 kids to one of the BBs last year. Probably more this year.
Yep, 10 but not 20. I don't think there is a single BB that has 20 kids in banking from one school. I could be wrong on that, but it seems unlikely from everyone I have talked to at other firms and I believe at my school the most is ~10.
Go for UVA if admitted. Otherwise, Michigan seems like your next best bet.
Finance major at BC here. Just wanted to say that we do have active OCR for IBD and/or S&T from Barclays, Citi, UBS, DB, and BAML. JPM only recruits for Private Banking and I have never seen Goldman/MS/CS though they do resume drops.
You will have a good time at BC. We get a good amount of shit for not being Harvard/MIT, but our girls are at least solid 8s, our hockey team dominates Boston (sadly can’t say the same for football which blows ass), and while were not actually in the city at least our students don’t get shot and sexually assaulted (looking at you BU/Harvard/Tufts). CSOM classes are also easy as shit and you will have a solid GPA if you put in minimal effort and choose the right professors.
Please rank these undergrad schools for chances at IB? (Originally Posted: 05/04/2014)
I'm looking to narrow my list of colleges down. My goal is to break into IB or S&T.
If I listed one with an asterisk next to it it means that it would cost me a good amount more so it comes with the additional question of whether or not it would be worth the price premium
Trinity College Connecticut College Colby College Baruch College of Business U of M Michigan State Boston University* Rutgers University* Fordham University* NYU econ*
One more question, assuming I get into Econ (but not business) at both NYU and U of M. Which one should I pick? Any other suggestions or advice would be much appreciated
U of Mich and don't look back, assuming you're deadset on high finance.
Gotta love the Slutgers girls though.
I'm aware that U of M is the best on there, but it is a slight reach for me. I was more looking for which of these would be not as good as U of M, but still decent?
First get in and then post?
I'm attempting to rule out some of the colleges so I don't have to waste money (or my time for that matter) applying to colleges that wouldn't really put me in a relatively better position than Mich State (safety school)
Colby will get you into BarCap.
Which Big 10 Schools best for IB SA? (Originally Posted: 09/08/2014)
Trying to see which Big 10 schools are good for a chance at IB
Northwestern and Umich.
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