Busniness school in the future - How many people in IB have gone?

How many people in IBD have gone to business school? I read in another thread that math/engineering guys might take over a lot of the work in finance. What do you think? Will it be a reality in the next 5-10 years? Will it include IBD or will it only be in trading, hedge funds etc? I

Whats your thought on the business school guy getting hired in IBD in the future(5-10 year time)?

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For the love of God, stop posting this question. If you go to a top 15 biz school, you will have a good chance of landing an associate position. If you have an MS in science/engineering you could get an analyst position but should go to b-school and break in at associate-level. There are, and always have been, a lot of science/engineering majors in analysts positions, myself included. Nobody gives a fuck about your major, just your school. If you want to advance from there, you probably need a top MBA.

 

Thank you, I posted it here as well because no one answered. If I go a good school, there will be no problems if my major isn't science/engineering? So I won't have to worry that the science people are taking all the analyst positions in IBD, in a 5-10 year time?

 
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Simply put...if you go to a target undergrad, you will get interviews for analyst regardless of major. If you go to a target MBA, you will get interviews for associate regardless of major. I am a "science people", went to a target undergrad and landed an analyst job. Most science people don't know or care about IBD and never will. It isn't prestigious to them. Prestige to a science major is working at the Large Hadron Collider and discovering Higgs-Boson.

Also, 5-10 years is an eternity in IBD years. Most of us will have had 3-5 different jobs and be far away from IBD. Nobody knew what a shit storm the industry would turn into 5-10 years ago.

 

Traditional investment banking (the kind that doesn't revolve around technology or math or complex deployment of balance sheet) has always been and will always be a relationship game. The pay might go down and they might attract less MBAs than in the past, but picking out elite undergraduates and MBAs is still a tried-and-true route.

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