Sleeper IB Schools
What are some schools that don’t come to mind right off the bat that receive their fair sharing of recruiting from BBs/EBs?
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princeton, uchicago
This is actually 1,000% true. Back during my Analyst program on the first day of training, all the Baruch/UF/ASU kids gave a 10 minute standing ovation to the Princeton kids in acknowledgement for conquering such a challenging path into finance. It was incredibly touching, many of the Princeton alums were teary-eyed knowing that the other schools would treat them as equals despite their undergrad background.
These schools have been overshadowed by the superior IU Kelley in recent years. Makes sense since Princeton and UChicago students are just unqualified spoiled rich kids who who aren’t even smart and study liberal arts /Econ. So unfair. Surely they can’t know as much about DCFs and excel as we do since we get BbA iN ACcounTInG and take classes called “international global business decisions”
exactly! princeton doesnt even have IBW!
Colgate, Middlebury
It's ridiculous how many Colgate alums I've seen in IB and AM.
Georgetown definitely
How is Georgetown a sleeper school?
Maybe is it because most people think of Gtown as a politics school?
I think that's part of the reason, everybody knows Georgetown is a target but their placement is much better than most people think, not only MSB but the whole school. IIRC Georgetown was tied with Penn for placing the most IB analysts. Not 100% sure if this is true, but their https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/w7jqgq01t01o0wj0i7zzlnt2tdr23pll</a">career report shows some pretty damn good results.
Hard to say any top 25-30 school is a 'sleeper' school
A lot of the regional offices (e.g. Chicago, Houston, etc.) don't really recruit from the same target pool as the NY offices so you'll see a lot more of the top 50-75 ranked state schools placing people in IB in those offices (perhaps in large part due to the massive size of the graduate classes) plus a handful in NYC.
In NYC banking, I've always seen pretty good representation from some less likely schools like Indiana (because of the workshop), Miami University (Ohio), Baruch, and Yeshiva. Also see decent numbers from the 'rich kid' schools like BU, SMU, GWU - though most are more from parent/family connections vs. the school itself.
Ima be real chief Ive never seen a kid from Yeshiva nor have heard of the name till today and nor will I probably ever see it in the near term future (at an EB)
It's common knowledge that all the jews go to goldman
Would say UGA could fall into that 50-75 category. UGA does pretty well in Atlanta and Charlotte and has a few kids who make it to NY.
Not a "sleeper" school but not often discussed on this site. Of all of the Ivys Brown is the least frequently mentioned. Going there you'll have the same access to every firm as the rest. Granted, they may not come to campus for OCR, but they'll still view you as a target and there will be alumni at the bank. And significantly fewer people are vying for IB jobs there's a lot less competition
Florida (UF) does well for Evercore
Second this. They get a lot of kids to BofA too
Really only from their MSF program right?
Not sure, you would know better than me. Just seems as if I've noticed a non-trivial number of UF alumni at both the analyst and MD level.
Yeah, historically, MSF has been the only way to Evercore out of UF as all the alumni are MSF grads.
UF has very strong on-campus recruiting for RBC, WF, and STRH too. Obviously, not BB/EB level banks, but still pretty decent for a Southern non-target school.
It's their MSF program. Top notch, sends out some really great people.
Likely any school which has a reputation for being strong in another area, i.e. finance recruiting is overshadowed by how many students choose pursue something else. Some that come to mind:
Rice Carnegie Mellon Wash U
Other schools that come to mind are LACs (especially in the northeast) that aren't necessarily the strongest finance education but have small, tight knit alumni groups that are the WASP-y banker types
UCLA, USC
UCLA is the top public school in the nation, plus its in SoCal - I saw on another thread someone saying an LAC like Middlebury is a better place lol
Midd > UCLA for finance in NYC, not really any doubt about it
Kelley
With respect, there is this Wall Street workshop that has very solid placement.
Don't go there but BYU seems to place a lot of kids
love going out and getting absolutely shitfaced with my Mormon friends
and their wives
Washu, UCLA, Williams, USC, CMC
A lot of the small Catholic schools punch above their weight because of a tight-knit alumni base. Georgetown and ND are highly ranked and place well, but schools like BC and Villanova which are in the ~40s range in US News also place decently.
uc berkeley for sure. especially for bay area offices
Johns Hopkins
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Would someone be hindered in recruiting if they transferred to another school sophomore year?
All I know from reading this forum is that being a junior transfer does make recruiting a little bit more difficult.
Wondering the same thing
Wharton
I second UCLA/CAL....big time underrated
It's crazy sad how much of a nontarget UCLA is treated as - resumes to the New York offices and EBs in LA/SF are usually just trashed without a single look.
Maybe New York....but resumes from UCLA are definitely not trashed in LA/SF...especially not LA...
UNC KF
not a sleeper, name one analyst at PJT/CVP/EVR?
BC, i know they place 70+ kids every year
Maybe in BO/MO...not that much for FO positions.
I can confirm this post, I’m in the Carroll school at BC. citi takes 15, ubs takes 12, GS takes 4, dB takes 8, Jeffries takes 4, Barclays takes 5, baml takes 4, top boutiques take total ~10, regional/Boston boutiques take ~10. definite sleeper school.
Wow, I'm at Princeton and looks like BC is beating our placement! Do you know how the transfer process works? I've also been looking at IU and SMU as possible places to transfer as well.
The University of Miami is a target at BAML this year and has been placing pretty solid over the last few years.
FL or OH?
FL. For the kids that are diligent, they can definitely place from there.
seen umass amherst send bunches to markets at top BBs the past few years; even a few to IB
Lmao got hit by MS when a simple Linkedin search would prove my point.. yikes
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
The B schools: Babson, Bentley, and Bryant
Bryant - no
Bentley - Decent placement in Boston area. I know they have some people at Boston Lazard and a decent amount of Falcons at the smaller Boston boutiques.
Babson - As long as you somewhat bust your arse, you'll be fine. Good recruiting connection with Piper, Harris Williams, Moelis Boston, Raymond J, Citizens. Lots of alumni at BB, but no formal IB recruiting from them. For non-IB, TONS of alumni at BBs across the boards.
If you're looking for B Schools, just save yourself the hassle and go to BC
University of Phoenix
iu Kelley
Congrats on that! Very impressive to do that from a background like northwestern.
Northwestern is super target for mid-west firms. Target for rest. Extremely reputable
Many times students who attend smaller colleges have a better chance at breaking into IB/BB through alumni connections. I’ve heard of a few students from Emory, Babson and Davidson landing gigs.
Ivey Business School. Not as familiar with Canadian schools but this one always seem to pop up
villanova is my hot take. phenomenal representation among the bbs and a fair amount at evercore and pwp.
Claremont McKenna Notre Dame Wellesley Western (Canada)
ASU
Not a sleeper. Placement isn’t good enough to be considered one. ASU is one of the biggest schools in the country and they send maybe 4-6 FT BB/EB every year.
Indiana university’s Kelley school of business.
most prestige, most clout, best swag, best times, best bros, best girls
NNPTC
Maastricht, Nova and Hult place very decently from my experience.
Middlebury & BYU
ITT: People listing their schools to make themselves feel better about their mediocre school
I don’t go here but I’ve heard University of Minnesota—Twin Cities places well into Minneapolis offices especially Piper Jaffray.
Every nescac (less amherst & williams as they are not sleepers)
University of South Carolina has a program that places 10-20 kids each year
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also see MD presence at the bank pulling them in. very large considering ~1800 undergrad
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Zicklin - Baruch
did you go to baruch or have you seen people from baruch in IB ?
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