OFFICIAL 2023 TARGET SCHOOL RANKINGS FOR FINANCE
List made with competition, buyside opportunities, and per capita placement taken into account.
Tier 1 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford
Tier 2 - MIT, UChicago, Dartmouth
Tier 3 - Columbia, UPenn CAS, Duke
Tier 4 - Cornell, Brown, Northwestern
Tier 5 - NYU Stern, Williams, Amherst, Georgetown
Tier 6 - Michigan, UC Berkeley, UVA, WashU, Emory
Tier 7 - Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, USC
Tier 8 - Rice, Johns Hopkins, UT Austin, UCLA, IU Kelley, UNC KF
WashU / Emory down a tier, UNC, UCLA, Notre Dame up a tier
Pretty accurate besides that
WashU and Emory are there because of per capita placement. UNC and UCLA are lower because this is for NYC opportunities and not regional banks, and Notre Dame is low because I despise the school.
Emory down 1 tier imo.
Also, I’d put BYU in this list in either Tier 7 or 8, they put a ton of students into EB/BB every year (I am still trying to figure out how they place so well across the US). Also have representation at Apollo, KKR, Carlyle, etc. along with Tiger, P72, TwoSigma, Citadel, etc. and they place incredibly well into HBS, GSB, and other M7 programs.
I say this as an Ivy League grad. BYU people are like there own secret society within high finance lol.
I think that list list depends also on City placement because obviously UT and Rice are going to feed hard into Houston same with USC and LA/SF, whereas ivies won’t touch Houston/Charlotte/Chicago/etc. (for the most part)
Other than that though I think taking it all into account this is pretty solid
BYU hires are generally in SLC offices or nepo babies
I mean nearly every school “places” into GS if we count back office. BYU places into IB was what I was referring to
You’re an Ivy League grad that just happens to track BYU placements in your free time and write multi paragraph posts on WSO about how great BYU is?
Genuinely congrats on BYU
BYU is legit
MIT is tier 1
In quantitative finance sure, but not in traditional IB/PE
ASU gotta be at least tier 2 smh it's a mega target
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Yessirrr
What about other Boston universities tufts, BC and BU?
All pretty bad
I went to BC now at a top HF. Don’t believe everything on wso.
What's a tuft?
this ranking will be outdated on July 11th, 2023
You know how some people peak in high school/college?
This is peaked in college activity.
Cope and seethe non targeter
Bro couldn’t sound more autistic if he tried lol
Unbelievably corny.
And I still broke in. I wouldn't trade my non-target struggle for the world. I'm way better off for it
Stop coping, you'd have given your left nut to go to a T10 / Ivy. Living in delusion about your non target making you better off for finance than a target school is corny.
I said 'better off'. I never said 'better off in finance'. I would say I learned personal lessons from being at a non-target more than anything else.
Funny enough, the biggest one was that finance isn't everything. It seems that your T10 / Ivy failed to teach you that
In my time in IB and knowing kids from several of these schools I would say this list is surprisingly accurate taking into all the variables that exist. Only change would be to put WashU one tier down, Northwestern one tier down, and Notre Dame one/two up. Everything else looks solid. Some people here are saying that Emory should be moved a tier down but I actually think it should stay in the same place because it places very well given the competition and size and has some influential people at the top.
SMU & BYU should be tier 8//possibly 7. There's an argument for Emory to be down a tier, but otherwise all correct. SB!
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Non target kids mad
Would personally move down Amherst / Williams. Phenomenal schools but don’t place as well as their academic reputation.
Due to students' interests or bad placing? Another example is Hopkins - it's tier 8 but that's because virtually nobody wants to go into finance from there. Those who do don't have 'tier 8' outcomes though
Also think I’d take Umich / uva / ND over Gtown.
Ngl why we creating this list what value does it provide goddam might as well start ranking dick sizes
Ross places much, much better than Williams, Amherst, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, etc.
Go blue baby. If you disagree, just check LinkedIn.
Because Ross is as big as many of those schools and pretty much everyone there is gunning for finance. Not really fair to compare to Brown or Williams where maybe 1/20 wants to do finance and obviously LinkedIn is biased by size
Duke Lax is Tier 1
Do they place well? Lol
lol Michigan Ross way too low, Tier 5 or 4 is more accurate
Any list for Canadian targets?
Northwestern down three tiers for sure
Columbia up to Tier 2,
Duke down to Tier 6,
UT Austin up to Tier 6
Harvard, Princeton down a tier, virtually zero placement at top mega-bulge banks like Northwestern Mutual
ND is too low.
Tufts and W&L missing is a big omission
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