How does Vanderbilt (undergrad) stack up? Why is it not talked about a lot despite being an incredibly difficult school to get into? Is Alumni presence/network not strong? Would you choose Vanderbilt over WashU, Emory, Middlebury, Rice, UMich, or Georgetown?
| +40 | Wharton Huntsman Program vs Yale vs Dartmouth | 40 | 18h | |
| +32 | Umich Ross vs Rice vs Notre Dame Mendoza | 17 | 17h | |
| St Andrews vs LSE vs Middlebury | 18 | 5h | ||
| +26 | Target School Kids Stop Complaining | 6 | 18h | |
| +25 | Oxbridge or Top 15 US School. | 7 | 8h | |
| +23 | Imperial College Finance Masters' | 5 | 1d | |
| +22 | UCL Vs Warwick Vs Umass Amherst Vs UW Madison Vs UofT for undergrad | 22 | 1h | |
| +20 | LSE BSc Economics vs Cambridge BA Economics | 7 | 10h | |
| +18 | UK/EU MSc's in Finance | 7 | 11h | |
| +17 | Why is Boston College CSOM praised so much here? | 10 | 4d |
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WashU and Georgetown >> Vanderbilt especially for IB
This is not true, washu is worse than vandy for ib, Georgetown might be better.
WashU has been hot of late
Probably this order if given the choice:
Georgetown
UMich (Ross only)
Vanderbilt
WashU
Emory
Rice
Middlebury
Of those schools I think the obvious choice is IU-Kelley.
I am pretty sure iu Kelley places better than half those schools on the list
Vandy is an incredibly good school and most professionals recognize it as such. Idk why they're underrepresented in IB. I'm an alum of one of the other schools you mentioned, and I can attest that many of those schools are very research or sciences focused and you'll be behind the 8-ball coming out of them since their business programs are weak. It took me longer to catch up on the technicals to people who had gone to business-focused schools (so I was a weaker candidate early on in my career), but now I'm far ahead of my peers since the technicals can be learned over time but true novel critical thinking is innate or really only fostered in those sorts of educational environments.
It’s a good school that historically enrolled southern students that more often than not stayed in the Southeast. The demographic has changed a lot of the past few years as it’s gotten increasingly competitive and the pipeline to NYC has gotten a lot stronger but it still has a lot of roots in the southeast and isn’t as northeast focused as other schools. Also it doesn’t have a business or finance major to offer so people who think they’re dead set on finance in high school (lol) probably see that as a setback. Hasn’t ever been a disadvantage in my experience. If you need 4 years to figure out the math and strategy involved in IB, you’re probably stupid
I am an incoming freshman, can any vandy alums say how good recuriting is or nyc ib
I see quite a few Vandy alum in NYC IB for some anecdotal evidence. Would put it on a similar level as Michigan/Georgetown and above the rest.
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I was sus because those placements were red-hot, but it seems their selective finance club has a good amount of placements in MO/BO
I think Vandy's a great school, but it's really regional. High semi-target, so you can get IB if you talk to alumni and interview well enough, but quality of groups probably isn't so great. Probably about 30-40 kids a year get IB based on PeakFrameworks' data that says 15 spots/year for bulge-brackets and top EBs. I would say similar to Notre Dame in terms of quality, lesser in terms of spots.
so basically is all the on campus recruiting for southern banks
I went to Vandy. Absolutely loved it, but will be honest with my pros/cons.
pros: Overall incredible student experience. Nashville is significantly, by a factor of 2.17-2.53 billion according to recent studies, more fun than just about any other college town you could end up in. The student body is consistently rated as happiest in the country by Princeton Review (not a clue how they get that, could just pull it out of their ass but it felt true to me). Incredibly selective and higher ranked (according to US World, if you're a Umich grad and you want to cry about it CVS is doing a 2-for-1 on tissues) academically than all of the other names mentioned, so it's definitely a prestigious degree. Plenty of high quality alumni
cons: Umich and Georgetown both seem to provide better educations on finance. At Vandy you pretty much have to do econ as a major with finance courses as a minor. Umich/Gtown also have a better NYC presence. Vandy really took off in terms of academic performance (becoming a top 15 school) in the past few years, whereas the others have been respected for longer, so they have a stronger alumni base in positions of power, especially Wall Street. I will say in my recruiting I came across plenty of Vandy MDs and PMs, but the other two are more prominent.
IMO, Vandy's recent outperformance will help it continue to climb the ranks as it places kids at top shops/MBAs. They'll be in those top positions in 10 years and the lines will blur. All 3 schools are fantastic and you'll have ample opportunity to reach any position in finance from all 3.
was it hard reaching out to alumni, Ik that we have very few in ebs
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