MBA Tier List for IB
Hey guys, I'm thinking of applying for an mba and I was hoping on breaking into IB. Can you guys make a tier list based in which schools in the T15 are the strongest for IB recruiting?
Thanks
Pretty much any of the ~top 15 or so can get you there.
Relative to their ranking / overall tier of the school, NYU and Cornell tend to do much better. MIT and YSOM underperform.
Stanford and Kellogg have great reputations and it's definitely possible to get IB out of them, but very few in the program are interested. HBS has a pretty strong pipeline despite most gunning for buyside or consulting roles instead.
UT obviously does great in Houston.
Like 90% of most classes is made up of Wharton, Columbia, Booth, NYU and Cornell.
Can you clarify why you say MIT and YSOM underperform? A bit concerned because I am at one of the two schools and am looking to do IB. I was told that the school actually does very well for IB relatively speaking (not in raw #s because most of the school is not interested in IB in the first place).
An example would be Kellogg a target school at a number of banks despite relatively small representation overall, but MIT and YSOM not a target school which mans you get grouped in with all the random people for recruitment.
They might very well have good placement, just with added hurdles at certain banks.
I see. Yea we are not strictly speaking core schools for many banks (I think only for 8), but there is a structured process at another ~8 or so because alumni run the initial coffee chats directly. I guess that still makes us relatively weaker than the pure finance schools but I think it's not bad relative to the number of students actually interested in banking.
I definitely wouldn't be worried. If you are at either of those schools you're going to have plentiful options. The other commenter is blowing this pretty far out of proportion as it has more to do with the preference and culture of people at each school for the IB placement than the opinion at those IBs of those schools.
Bottom line: If you are at one of those two T15s, and you want to get into IB and you have the drive to do it, you will certainly end up in a coveted role. Don't sweat it, just work hard.
Would throw in Tuck. Otherwise agree with all of what you said. Met some super weird Kellogg banking prospects though. Wouldn't be surprised they ended up being fine considering top schools are way easier to recruit IB IMO than schools outside of T15.
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