I’d agree that UVA is a bit better than Michigan but both are outstanding. It’s interesting that only one public is in the Top 30 and Bowdoin has a better shot than Michigan as a % of undergrad enrollment. It goes to show how outstanding many of these private schools are across the board while many publics are only restrictive for engineering, business and performing arts.
Interesting, especially after adjustment for undergrad enrollment, but what is missing is the total number of undergrads who even pursue a career in finance, but that is a hard number to get. Penn is so high because a large proportion of the kids going to Wharton are gunning for such a career path from the start. Same for Stern or other undergrad BSchools. There is greater career aspiration diversity in many schools, especially as you get into large publics. Maybe treating undergrad business schools as their own entity would be more incisive.
Perhaps another way to identify “feeders” is to take these 13 employers and identify the schools where they all (or pick a number like 80%) do on-campus recruiting. Also, it would be interesting to cut the place of employment data by taking each bank and showing the top 2 schools represented.
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P&Q website provides some of the info. that you noted.
Just like the comparison of two colleges’ acceptance rates can mislead because of the strengths of their different applicant pools, comparing the percentages of their graduates going into finance can be even more misleading because of different interests and intentions of their different graduates.