Best Undergraduate College for Investment Banking and Hedge Funding

<p>Wallstreet recruits pretty heavily from Babson college in mass. 100 finance and quan analysis majors last year and 45 are on wall street. (not all 100 wanted to work on wall street).</p>

<p>Do you know what they are doing on wall street? They could be janitors, in operations, private wealth, or investment banking.</p>

<p>lYeah. Just read their job placement report and, according to Babson, they said 38 of 45 got front office jobs. The other 7 got back office (PR, HR stuff like that) so the first 38 got good jobs. plus, the CIO of fidelity investments went to Babson so due to the smallness of Babson, anyone qualified for IB is pretty much guaranteed a job with them if they chose to.</p>

<p>instead of just going by rankings ( ********) call up these firms and see what colleges they prefer.</p>

<p>What about schools like the University of Rochester? Excellent schools, but less well-known?</p>

<p>You should really add Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Claremont McKenna to this list. Jackuk</p>

<p>they’re good for IB. Rochester is popular amongst IB firms</p>

<p>Would the list be different for someone planning to major in math or economics(since they’re not a part of the business school)?</p>

<p>^Yes.</p>

<p>UPenn (Wharton) > UPenn (Econ + Math)
NYU (Stern) > NYU (Econ + Math)
etc.</p>

<p>One of the exceptions could be UMich (Ross) and UMich (College of Engineering). A lot of firms recruit at both, but obviously a bent towards Ross.</p>

<p>Can somebody please list the liberal arts colleges that are good paths into IBanking?</p>

<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, Cal, UVA, Umich, UNC, UMich, NYU, GaTech(engineers), Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Claremont McKenna</p>

<p>Everyone on this board seems to agree that ND sucks for IB, yet I know many grads in it as we speak. Hmmmmm.</p>

<p>Bluedevils - The consensus is that Williams and Amherst are the best LACs for getting a job in investment banking directly through campus interviewing. For what it’s worth, I know a few people in IB’s who went to those two as well as Middlebury and Wesleyan. Also, all four of these schools are very popular with the top investment management and private equity firms as they seem to highly value well-rounded LAC types. Jackuk</p>

<p>@FutureVpFinance,</p>

<p>You list Georgia Tech, but not Emory?
Wesleyan, but not Middlebury or Swarthmore?</p>

<p>Keep in mind Swarthmore is part of the Quaker Consortium giving it access to UPenn’s classes, facilities, and networks.</p>

<p>@AvidStudent- I didnt purposefully leave it out. I’m just adding to the list as people suggest colleges. </p>

<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, Cal, UVA, Umich, UNC, UMich, NYU, GaTech(engineers), Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Claremont McKenna, Emory, Middlebury, Swarthmore</p>

<p>thats nearly 30 colleges already. So dont listen to anyone who says they only recruit at Harvard and Wharton guys.</p>

<p>And feel free to suggest anymore.</p>

<p>I know plenty of ND alumni in banking. Same with Gtown.</p>

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<p>JHU gets recruited. I’m skeptical that Georgia Tech is recruited for non-technology positions. Some of those on your list are probably only for the b-school. </p>

<p>In any case I think there’s a difference between schools with high levels of recruiting and low levels of recruiting. There is also a difference between schools with business majors and schools without business majors. For example, CalTech may be less recruited than UPenn Wharton, but everyone at Wharton is applying for the jobs whereas there are only a few people at CalTech trying to get the jobs.</p>

<p>Which to choose? For internships and for IBanking jobs</p>

<p>Financial Math at Umich
Or
IOE+econ minor at Michigan engineering
Or
USC EE+minor from Marshall
Or
Vanderbilt Math+minor in Financial Econ (No UG b-school)</p>

<p>Suppose I will get a good GPA.</p>

<p>I dont care staying at regional offices at SF or LA. But my ultimate goal will be Wall street.</p>

<p>I know mich is strong in math and econ and all hard sciences and maybe I could get an excellent quantitative background, but I am afraid recruiters know that public schools are not selective (50% admission rate at M). And since M is huge, the competition for internship opportunities will be extremely cut-throat. Just do not know about USC and vandy. Heard that USC sucks for math and econ…</p>

<p>People in this thread seldom talks about USC and Vanderbilt. Is that because of the location? or just because they lack some prestige?</p>

<p>Anyone share any insights?</p>

<p>EEatPurdue, I’m not sure that I caught all of your abreviations, but If you can major in electrical engineering at USC with a minor from their business school, that is your best option. Engineering graduate with good wrtiing and presentation skills are highly prized by I Banks for capital markets teams such as telecoms, technology, chemicals, etc.</p>

<p>I am going to apply to these schools, can you rank which would be the best to get into the investment banking route? or what the recruiters favour, anything i should take out?</p>

<p>-Carnegie Mellon
-UVA
-UNC
-Emory
-Georgetown
-Wharton (Reach)
-BC
-Michigan</p>

<p>thanks! and anything i should put in? i don’t think my scores are high enough for Ivies</p>