Best Undergraduate College for Investment Banking and Hedge Funding

<p>folks, ratios, ratios, ratios. the fact that Stern places massively into i-banking seems to pale in comparison to the number of people who DIDN'T get into i-banking, considering how big a proportion of its class wants Wall Street.</p>

<p>From a old school bro who works at Morgan, he has this to say: Stern is one of those 30-resume-drop-and-2-interview places.</p>

<p>the same could be said, to a much lesser degree, of Northwestern. </p>

<p>I got admitted to USC Marshall. it is a hard target for west coast banks. but it doesn't mean anything, because so many guys out of USC Marshall want to making lots of money (why do you think they are biz majors?) in banking, and so few actually get in.</p>

<p>from what i hear, i-banking is a solidly prestige-driven business, and appropriately so. the Ivy name that your boss drops off casually to the client gives the junior i-banker a lot of credibility and power. after all, they are complete newbs going in and telling big companies what to do.</p>

<p>if you want i-banking, go to the Ivies. if that fails, go to Duke, UVa, UT McCoombs, or the prestige Northeast LAC's.</p>

<p>sam lee, where is Amherst and Middlebury?
isn't middlebury like super strong in i-banking?
(i got into Wes, so i haven't got much to complain about. hella JPM interviews on campus)</p>

<p>Not so subtle UT trolling 2 posts ago -_-</p>

<p>Actually UT does pretty well for IB recruiting.</p>

<p>(i never applied for UT and never would go there. In fact i am pretty sure i never would go to Texas for any personal reasons).</p>

<p>(Me neither, as I live in Europe.)</p>

<p>UT McCombs Business Honors Program does well for IB. Kids that aren't in honors program really don't have a whole lot of chances, unless they have a super high GPA. From what I've heard, when the banks come, they are looking overwhelmingly at only BHP kids.</p>

<p>^ noooo :[
Can some1 else input their knowledge about non BHP people at UT?
I probably will be applying there next year for transfer, don't think I will be in BHP. Can you even be one as a junior transfer?</p>

<p>Why nothing about UNC-Chapel Hill? It's definetly a top 10 buisiness school. Do any i-banks recruit there? Or is it just that UNC grads get jobs in other sectors of buisness world?</p>

<p>It's not a top 10 business school at all.</p>

<p>um... us news has it as #5 tied with stern</p>

<p>Think about it. If you're a recruiter from Goldman or MS, why would you recruit at UNC when you can tap a much brighter demographic a few miles down the road at Duke? UNC is a great school, but it is not heavily recruited for banking. FACT. Next question.</p>

<p>duke doesnt havea ug business school</p>

<p>you said business school so I assumed you meant business school, not UG business school. Still, unc isn't a target no matter how you spin it.</p>

<p>Okay, so assuming its not a "target" does that mean its impossible to land a job at i-banking right out of undergrad UNC buisiness?</p>

<p>But how can it not be a target at all being as high rated as it is? Are kids just recruited in other areas (like mackinze)?</p>

<p>biz school means just about nothing on the UG level.
it's all about the prestige.</p>

<p>sf606508, doesnt just about any school mean nothing on the u grad level, because u learn the same stuff in wharton and at UNC business, its just all about prestige and recruiter access....</p>

<p>yes, quagmire, it is exactly what i said. haha.
"it is all about the prestige."
somehow the whole bizarre obsession with quality of education at one college vis-a-vis another has to stop. the college degree of today has been a commodity, and the Harvard and other Ivy degrees are the equivalent of gold or, well, barrels of oil.</p>

<p>well, while it may be true that you might learn the same thing at harvard that you learn in a not-so-remarkable state school, the prestige still matters in terms of landing jobs, so the obsession with prestige is not totally unwarranted</p>

<p>Ugrad business school means nothing outside of a select few (wharton, haas, sloan, stern). Notice that wharton/sloan belong to penn/mit whereas probably the only really big benefactor of an ug business school is nyu. Just because you aren't a target doesn't mean you can't get IB, it just becomes much more difficult.</p>