<p>Does UChicago have any career reports for undergrads? I know that Penn has a pretty comprehensive one that basically lists all employers by number of students and their majors. More specifically, I'm interested in investment banking and consulting firms, namely top companies like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bain, Mckinsey, etc. </p>
<p>If not, can any current students chime in on how UChicago undergrads fare in recruiting for top firms compared to peer schools? I guess Penn isn't a good comparison since it has Wharton, and that self-selected group of students all want to work at elite companies to begin with, whereas Uchicago students are generally more diverse in career interests. </p>
<p>There are a zillion threads on this topic, if you look for them. I will summarize them for you: Some people (I included) believe that Chicago students who want that kind of career and have the credentials for it do fine at getting those jobs. Other people believe that the most desirable name-brand firms do not recruit undergraduates as heavily at Chicago as they do at the Ivies or Stanford. </p>
<p>Both statements are true, I believe. There’s little question that, at least until about five minutes ago, a smaller percentage of the student body at Chicago was interested in that kind of career than you would find at Harvard or Brown or Stanford, much less Penn, so the absolute numbers of hires and the intensity of recruiting is lower. Also, even some of the finance-oriented Chicago students are focused on the Midwest, and may choose to work regionally rather than going to New York. But there’s no real question that a good student who targets finance or business consulting and goes about it with half a brain will be successful. What doesn’t happen nearly as much at Chicago as it does at Harvard is a good student with no particular direction more or less falling into a job with BCG or McKinsey. That doesn’t happen at Penn, either, by the way.</p>
<p>No one, anywhere, publishes the kind of data Penn does. They are a decade ahead of everyone else, make it more of a priority, believe in it, and are working to stay ahead, too. (A reliable little birdie told me they are close to having enough data to start publishing meaningful reports on alumni experience five and ten years after graduation.) If you look at the Penn data, you can distinguish between the jobs Wharton kids get and the jobs CAS kids get.</p>