CNBC Article - Wanna work at a hedge fund? Go to these schools

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Want to make the big bucks at a hedge fund or another hotshot AM firm? A diploma from U Penn is your best bet as an undergraduate. If you're getting an MBA, it's U Chicago. And if you graduated in 2010 or later, Columbia is the top feeder school to have on your resume. That's according to a new ranking of where employees of asset management firms went to school by eVestment. The report draws from a data set of more than 35,000 professionals—mostly PMs, analysts and other investment-focused roles—from more than 4,500 AM firms, mostly hedge and mutual funds. The average age was 47. Top schools for working in Asset Management

Raw Scores

Rank University Total alumni

1 U Penn 1101

2 Harvard 920

3 Columbia 886

4 U Chicago 877

5 NYU 810

6 Stanford 470

7 Northwestern 429

8 UCLA 412

9 UC - Berkeley 373

10 BC 372

Size Adjusted

Rank U Total alumni

1 U Chicago 877

2 U Penn 1101

3 Dartmouth 291

4 Harvard 920

5 Princeton 273

6 MIT 357

7 BC 372

8 Stanford 470

9 Yale 303

10 Columbia 886

MBA

Rank U MBA alumni

1 U Chicago 720

2 Columbia 557

3 NYU 533

3 Pennsylvania 533

5 Harvard 471

6 Northwestern 234

7 UCLA 208

8 Stanford 182

9 USC 125

10 U Michigan - Ann Arbor 124

4 Comments
 
Ghost Rider

I thought USC's prestige was rising? Though I am mostly basing this of undergrad when I was looking at schools awhile back.

B-school completely collapsed, and is ranked ~29 now, and had the worst placement rate of the top 30 (only 2/3 found jobs). They sugar coat is by saying its turn-over in the OCR and students really wanting to stay in Cali...but plenty of other schools have OCR turn-over and students who want to stay in the region (e.g. the other 3 cali schools) and don't have those issues.

 

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