Alumni representation (undergraduate only) at the top Private Equity firms

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@Alexandre

ennisthemance, I was not referring to the residence status of the students, but of the location of the universities. East Coast universities attract more finance types than Midwestern schools or West Coast schools. IBanks do not prefer Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown or UVa students to Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern or Stanford students, I guarantee it! But there are far, far more students at Georgetown and UVa that apply for jobs in the financial sector than students from Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern or Stanford.

Do you have any proof of this? Michigan actually has a dedicated undergraduate business school, Northwestern has MMS plus the Kellogg Certificate, and Chicago has CCIB (Chicago Careers In Business), and Economics is actually Stanford’s most popular major so I’m guessing the vast majority of their graduates will work in i-banks and consulting firms (on the West Coast though primarily).</p>

<p>Keep in mind that Chicago and San Francisco are major financial hubs as well and all the bulge bracket banks have secondary or tertiary offices in these cities as well. It doesn’t make logical sense that U of M would have attract less applicants to banks than Georgetown or UVA given its sizeable and highly ranked undergraduate business program, multiple professional business fraternities, specialty majors like Financial Economics and Organizational Studies, etc. etc.</p>

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@Alexandre

Considering that most of those peer schools (with the exception of Dartmouth) are larger than Chicago (Michigan five times larger, Cornell almost three times larger, Penn twice larger, Northwestern 60% larger, Columbia 35% larger, Duke 30% larger and Brown 12% larger), I think Chicago holds its own nicely.

Chicago usually does better than only 1 other Ivy in all these preprofessional lists Alexandre. Cornell, Michigan, and Penn all have Nursing schools in addition to other preprofessional programs like undergraduate business, kinesiology, pharmacy, etc. whose enrolled students typically will not apply to law school or medical school.</p>

<p>Chicago is a 100% liberal arts school so all of their graduates will either pursue graduate studies, professional studies, or aim for jobs in the investment banking or management consulting sector. Remember, Chicago doesn’t even have an engineering school!</p>

<p>Again, the professional success of its graduates severely lags its academic reputation which is not good.</p>