Johns Hopkins vs Emory
Which school is more prestigious, and which school has better placement for a motivated student that's willing to grind?
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As far as lay prestige for the average person, JHU. IB-wise, Emory by a mile.
Definitely Emory. Johns Hopkins is traditionally more “prestigious”, but for IB, Emory is the superior choice. Decent pipeline and good placement for those willing to grind.
Gonna play devil’s advocate here and say JHU is better for both prestige and IB recruiting. I don’t think I need to elaborate on JHU’s general prestige. As for IB placement, I’d say JHU is actually better per capita because very few people recruit for IB there and so competition is light. From what I’ve heard, it’s very easy for someone from JHU to hop on a networking call. They also have a really good investment club. Compare this to Emory where 20% of its student body are business and econ majors (business is their most popular major). Emory’s placement is pretty mid to begin with but then you have all this cutthroat competition alongside it. And most of the ppl who place well are diversity.
You think Emorys mid, but JHU is a non target by almost all publications. Lol, OP is a troll, and wouldn't be surprised if they have multiple accounts here.
it's literally impossible for us to become a target when we have less than a dozen kids fully recruiting each year. Banks need at least 50-100 kids to be worth their time. JHU will always be the most asterisk school out there in terms of top schools but yet so far from being a target, purely because of a lack of volume.
It’s good you heard from your buddies that it’s easy to land a call with all 7 JHU alums on the street
Emory student here: can only shed light on the Emory experience. If you want IB and prep enough to earn an offer, you will get it. Simple as that. No prestige barrier or lack of resources available.
Hi, is there any chance I could DM you? I'm thinking of ED2ing emory
Not much work on the desk today and my colleague just showed me this – logging on for the first time in a minute.
I'm a JHU alum who chose Hopkins out of many other schools including Emory. I've had 0 trouble networking coming out of Hopkins and networked into a very well known firm on this website (where i'm now full time w/ PE offer in hand) with no alumni connections. Hardly anyone dubbed me in terms of networking. The alumni network out of our club is extremely strong with at least a few people who will absolutely bat for you at most top firms. In addition, most people (especially in Healthcare/ Life Sciences IB) will take your call after seeing the JHU name.
Look at our investment club placement here: https://jhusalant.com/home. I think JHU is the better choice for IB despite the fact that they send so few kids – every single kid that tries to place out of Hopkins goes lights out. The last 2-3 years placement has included: MS, JPM, EVR, MOE, Ares, LionTree, Lazard, PJT, HL RX, etc. etc to name a few. We also generally end up in the top groups – MS M&C, EVR RX, JPM HC. This is target-school quality of placement, just with very low volume (which has its downsides in smaller alumni networks, but historical placements show it doesn't matter)
One aspect can be attributed towards kids becoming more hungry in the environment at Hopkins (lots of premed kids with insane work ethic, knowing you're competing with Wharton kids, etc.). However, looking back on it, I'm happy I went to Hopkins because I probably would've hated being surrounded by turbo-sweats who knew they wanted IB since 8th grade (which I assume you can find many of at Emory). Like the top comment says, you are competing with effectively nobody and the kids that end up trying to recruit are all very close to each other and genuinely helpful instead of cutthroat. I'm still super close with the people I studied with (which also happened to be the only kids who tried for IB) while recruiting at Hopkins.
I'm not sitting here and typing all of this out to say you should go to JHU over the majority of target schools – I think that you're pretty stupid not to go to a target school when you know you want to do IB. Your life will be easier there. However, JHU for IB is a far better option imo than Emory in terms of placement alone. Nobody is going to doubt your intellect if your resume says JHU, so long as you study your technicals and network like everyone else, the school name will not hold you back whatsoever. If you're dead set on IB and these are your two options, choose JHU.
Emory has much better placement despite it being a consulting school. Glad you're happy about your Alma matre but this is delusional.
Per capita placement doesn’t equal prestige. Like the post said, if someone is willing to grind hard, JHU is the better place to be. If you’re kind of half assing it/ don’t care about going to the tip top, Emory may be easier but there’s more competition for the top. Put the same hungry kid at both schools and JHU is the better place to be. The club placement speaks for itself.
Turbo sweats—get a life. JHU sucks in every single possible eay
JHU is more prestigious but not much of an IB presence. A lot do seem to end up in S&T and research tho. I’d go with JHU
JHU is more prestigious on paper. Emory has more absolute placements than JHU due to its decent-sized alumni network in street. I believe Emory places fairly well into EB/MMs and some BBs as well. JHU will still get you looks from BB/EBs if you do all the work correctly.
All I can say from my buyside seat is that I’ve never encountered a single Emory grad in my career vs I’ve met many (and worked with two) Hopkins grads
and no I don’t work at TRowe. I’m at a SM HF in the northeast
A simple LinkedIn search could solve this.
Searching on LinkedIn will help me meet Emory alums?
Just stfu pls
Not going to argue with you on your own experience but its not very representative. There are clearly more Emory alums on the street and in finance but that doesn't mean that its better but saying that the school doesn't have a general finance presence is not true
Hopkins is the more prestigious school by a solid margin. Hopkins is very much a semi-target at best for finance. The school isn’t bad for finance by any means but its business school is not a leading program of the school.
Emory, while less prestigious, is generally better for finance jobs.
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