Target School Tier List for Consulting - 2025
Based on what I have seen / heard across tier 1 office MBB recruitment. Attended Ross for reference so very familiar with NYC and Chicago pipelines. Only iffy on Penn (could be higher?) and Cornell (could be lower for MBB).
Tier 1: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
Tier 2: Penn, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke
Tier 3: UChicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Michigan Ross
Tier 4: WashU, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, UVA
Tier 5: USC, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley
Tier 6: NYU Stern, IU Kelley, UCLA, UT Austin, UNC
Go blue devils
NYU Stern does not even have MBB on campus recruiting.
can confirm
The entire tier 6 list shouldn’t exist unless tier 6 stands for non-target. None of those schools have MBB presence on campus, and I believe stern only does for their MBA program, not undergrad.
chic to 2 ; berk to 6
uchi mbb recruiting sucks compared to finance/quant/etc
nahh because of booth they have a massive alumni base in mbb. they place well in finance, quant, and consulting
Move up Uchicago and Dartmouth one tier
Shouldnt georgetown also be moved up a tier?
Tiers 1-3 look accurate. However would bump Cornell down, combine tiers 4-5 (Cal and ND are the same level as the schools on tier 4), and push USC and Hopkins down to tier 6.
Isnt georgetown tier 3?
USC has on-campus recruiting for 2 of the Big 3, 4, and a handful of boutiques - only McKinsey doesn't have much OCR presence. Strong alumni network on West Coast - would keep at 5 or bump up a level
congrats on ross
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