Best Undergraduate College for Investment Banking and Hedge Funding

<p>NW or Cornell for (BB) IB, Ross isn’t as well-connected in the field. For other fields Ross is better recruiting wise, i.e. consulting, marketing.</p>

<p>cornell > northwestern = michigan</p>

<p>That’s what I thought, thanks.</p>

<p>these threads are generally silly, but I just wanted to add something:</p>

<p>If I had the choice, I would have gone to Dartmouth. The school places better than anything listed here if you adjust for its size. Dartmouth is always at the top of every post grad salary survey, despite the very small % of technical majors (the rest of the lists are topped by MIT, Harvey Mudd, etc.). </p>

<p>I have no bias because I didn’t go to Dartmouth. But trust me, if you’re in the frats there, you have a higher % chance of getting any top biz job than anywhere else. Why? The school is the only Ivy that still actually has a preference for blue blood prep school grads. It has not fully embraced the progressive, meritocratic stance of the other IVys. Thus, you are surrounded by the offspring of the New England brahmins. If you can fit in with them, you’re set. On campus recruiting stats mean nothing when you’re that tight knit.
6’2 waspy athletic Dartmouth male studying history>the smartest geeky engineer.</p>

<p>I disagree. Dartmouth is close to 40% minority now and I know SO MANY non jock types who have gotten top finance jobs. The Dartmouth “old boy” network has completely embraced the new world. Remember 92% of campus voted for Obama. But there’s no question Dartmouth dominates finance.</p>

<p>I said if you’re in the right frat. The people I know at Dartmouth who got the really hot positions (I’m talking PE out of undergrad) did not go through the career office and were studying philosophy, history, etc. They got it through an alum who was in the same frat. Wharton may place more people through the career office (I’m sure it does, in fact) but at Dartmouth these guys didn’t need to compete on some curve in cutthroat econ classes.</p>

<p>I would say Harvard, Wharton and UChicago share tier 0 in that Wharton is by far #1 for Business/Finance while UChicago and Harvard share #1 for Economics.</p>

<p>^ This thread addresses neither business/finance nor economics. If you read the thread title, you would see that the OP is asking for rankings based off of IB recruiting. With that in mind, Chicago doesn’t come close to Wharton/Harvard.</p>

<p>Well reading through this thread, there seems to be some agreement that BB firms like to pick up students with Economics degrees</p>

<p>And that is relevant how? An English major at Harvard with decent internships + a good GPA trumps an economics major at a Rutgers/Penn State type school. The question posed isn’t what undergraduate degree is best for IB recruiting.</p>

<p>bit off subject, but if you’re non target(top 50), but have a high(3.9) GPA, some work experience(teller at WellsFargo), helped found a small business, were an officer in your school’s finance club, and majored in Math/Econ are you screwed in the world of finance until grad school?</p>

<p>also, does undergrad research in economics help when going for an MSF/MBA?</p>

<p>Its going to be tough, you just won’t be on the recruiting radar. My suggestion would be to go get a one year masters at a top 10 in computational finance, math, or something like this. That’s probably your best bet.</p>

<p>what year are you? get an internship at a local boutique / mm firm. start emailing / coldcalling and fix your resume up.</p>

<p>to answer the OP’s original question:</p>

<p>Princeton</p>

<p>I’d say Harvard or Wharton.</p>

<p>Wharton is definitely the most represented school in the financial industry, but you can get in from any top school</p>

<p>what is the list now? Also is UMIAMI in florida or USC or UWASH in seattle or NYU or UVIRGINIA or UNC on it?</p>

<p>I’m a bit curious as to what you guys think about UT Austin (especially the few guys on here who are bankers). Every once and a while I see their name on the low end of targets. Is this mainly just from the business school (McCombs), or do they take some econ and/or math majors?</p>

<p>So can engineering students (Cornell) get recruited for I-bank after graduation? Do they really need Econs for I-bank?</p>

<p>What about Marquette? I heard that their AIM (Applied Investment Management Program) prepares kids very well for the CFA exam and has good connections to the IB/Wall Street. Anyone verify this???</p>