True undergrad investment banking Target School Prestige Tierlist

Prestige of schools on Wall Street, primarily for investment banking, 100% for out of undergrad. 

S: Harvard Wharton Stanford

A: Yale Princeton MIT

B: UChicago, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, NYU, Columbia

C: Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Georgetown, Michigan

D: Williams, Amherst, Berkeley, Notre Dame, UVA

E: UT, Vandy, Emory, WashU, Johns Hopkins, Florida, USC, CMC

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In my experience most people under the age of 30 or so are equally impressed by the stern undergrad name and cornell. brown maybe a little higher. of course in the big picture u are right

 

Dartmouth and Columbia need to be between Yale/MIT and such and UChicago/Duke/NYU. If you want to get even more granular put Yale/MIT > Columbia > Dartmouth > UChicago/Duke/NYU. 

 
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