Which undergrad universities are considered prestigious?
Before everyone starts getting pissed off, I'm just curious as to which undergrads are actually viewed as prestigious within the industry (and amongst elites in general).
Of course HYPSMW is guaranteed prestigious at the highest level. Based on my own experiences, it seems like a school like Ross, Stern, or Georgetown (which are highly selective, academically strong, have strong placements) wouldn't be really an impressive or prestigious name to people who are around a lot of HYPSMW grads.
Do you think non HYPSMW targets are prestigious/impressive?
In particular, what do you think about UChicago and Northwestern? How far does each of these two names go in terms of prestige and respect? I've got into both and it seems UChic might be the stronger finance school (especially with the Econ program and Booth being combined in the new degree), but I'm afraid the UChic name isn't as well known/respected/perceived.
>HYPSMW
STFU
those are all objectively very prestigious schools, definitely better than anything else
As someone who spearheads recruiting for my group and sees a ton of resumes:
W
Rest of the Ivies (I generally don't see that much of a difference between a Cornell vs. Princeton kid), MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, Stanford, Duke
Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Georgetown
Michigan, Stern, USC, UVA, UNC, etc
After that, I don't really consider the schools to be that impressive / eye-catching.
I think this is a good list but would maybe add some schools like Rice, WashU, and the top LACs to this list, even if the applicants from these schools are fewer in number
Meh, I don't see those resumes that often but I'd lump them like this:
W
Rest of the Ivies (I generally don't see that much of a difference between a Cornell vs. Princeton kid), MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, Stanford, Duke
Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Williams
Top NESCACs, Rice, WashU, Michigan, Stern, USC, UVA, UNC, etc
I feel like Emory definitely belongs in this generally. Idk about your group specifically but it’s definitely strong in recruiting and a target for most EBs. Fits very comfortably in the last group. Also Vanderbilt is definitely in the tier below for general recruiting.
Yeah Emory should definitely be there
As someone who reviews resumes for MM IB
1. W
2. HY
3. PSM/Oxbridge/Caltech
4. UChicago/UPenn/Columbia
5. Rest of Ivies ex. Brown/Cornell + Georgetown/Duke/Ivy-tiers
6.. Stern/LSE + top APAC (Tsinghua, Peking, SNU, HKU) + Brown/Cornell
7. Top state flagships (UMich, Berkeley) + Other top privates/publics (Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, CMU, UT Austin, UNC, USC, BU, BC) + Canadian/UK/European targets (UCL, Imperial, Warwick, Bocconi, HEC, Queens, Ivey)
8. Names I recognize in the US/EU
9. Names I don't recognize in the US/EU
10. Third world names
Not necessarily based on rankings/prestige but mostly on the quality of kids coming out of those schools who are interested/dedicated to finance (Stern hardo will probably make a better intern than a Berkeley STEM kid even if Berkeley is marginally more prestigious for instance)
Also depends on major, for example Oxford PPE could probably be seen as equivalent to HY, but Oxford Chemistry will drop a couple tiers.
Classics, Geography, most humanities course are a joke to get into. Anything STEM + E&M at Oxbridge is top tier, and PPE is actually decently easy to get into vs those (for Oxford standards of course). The preftige just comes from all the UK Prime Ministers that did this course. As you can judge by yourself, not sure they were any good at being public servants.
I feel like Emory definitely belongs in this generally. Idk about your group specifically but it’s definitely strong in recruiting and a target for most EBs. It’s better than a few tier 7s mentioned
Also if you’re including foreign schools like Peking then IIT(Indian institute of technology) belongs there. I’ve seen so many MDs from there across all top banks. In Silicon Valley it’s seen on the MIT/Stanford/cal tech tier. IIT probably single handedly produces the most Silicon Valley tech ceos and foreign startup founders
Generally agree but why would Georgetown and other Ivies+ be viewed more positively than Brown/Cornell, which are actual Ivies.
You know the Ivy League is just a sports league, right? By your logic Brown and Cornell would be better than Stanford and MIT.
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