Lehigh vs Hamilton College vs Babson vs University of Wisconsin vs Indiana University

I'm trying to choose where to attend next year. My final choices are Babson college, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana, Hamilton, Lehigh, as well as Bentley, the University of Miami, Grinnell College, Kenyon College. If anyone can give me advice on where the best school to attend out of these choices to break into banking or finance in general is, that would be great. Thank you.

 
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Hamilton and Lehigh are the strongest academically. Lehigh tends to be pretty engineering heavy, Hamilton is more liberal artsy.

Wisconsin is a party school but actually has decent placement, especially on the west coast.

Babson & Bently I don't know much about. I know Babson has a decent entrepreneurship program. I generally think of both schools as is ok, but tough to standout compared to Harvard, MIT, BC, and Tufts among others.

Grinnell and Kenyon are also good schools, along the same vein as Hamilton, but a little more nerdy/artsy. Will be tougher to place into industry from these schools.

University of Miami is a party school, pretty weak academically.

Indiana is also pretty mediocre in my opinion. The only way I'd choose IU is if you could get into the Investment banking program which places very well into investment banking.

Overall I'd take a hard look at Hamilton, Lehigh, and Wisconsin. For pure banking recruiting, I'd actually go Wisconsin given that you can do really well. Hamilton will place into finance, but you'll have to hustle a little bit more as there won't be as direct of a path. Not sure about Lehigh, but from the little I know, it places ok regionally.

 

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