Best value undergraduate schools to break into IB

Question

I am a high school junior who is interested in finance, specifically investment banking and private equity. However, my family’s financial situation is to the point where all the top private universities are simply unaffordable as my family is upper-middle class (too rich to get any need-based money, but too poor to pay sticker price for four years). Contrary to my what my family wants, I want to leave the state of South Carolina to pursue my dreams of being more than my peers around me. In other words, I don’t want to go to a cheap non-target that will make networking virtually impossible.

Brownfield Capital · Accepted Answer

I was in a similar situation to that (family is from a NY suburb)- lived paycheck to paycheck but had too high of an income to receive financial aid and too little after tax to pay anything meaningful for in state public, out of state public or private school (this was due to high fixed costs from expensive mortgage).

finch77 · Answer

why cant he have high goals? everyone’s different man calm down

ebitda-d · Answer

I can speak to a few of these. UGA sends a decent amount of people to IB every year. Look into something called the Corsair Society. Placements obviously don't compare to a target but you have a solid shot at a MM like STRH in Atlanta or WF, plus a decent shot at a BB like Citi. Without intense networking I'd say STRH or WF is doable easily.

UF does pretty similarly. They have a program called MSF that sends like 20 kids to IB every year. Also sends to STRH and WF, but also to RBC, Jefferies, Evercore, etc.

monkishitz · Answer

Honestly speaking, there isn't really an easy way to put this, but you're probably going to have to shell out a lot even in the best circumstance. The best schools for financial aid are probably the ivies except for Cornell (not that they're bad they just don't have a lot of money and don't give a lot of aid...they have a great business school that's a target), Stanford U Chicago, you get the picture. They're obviously all ridiculously hard to get into.

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