<p>Can anyone provide me with a list of the schools that bulge bracket firms mostly hire from? I have been scouring the internet with no luck. Thanks!</p>
<p>Every BB has a campus recruiting schedule that’s usually available on its website. If you want general information regarding BB recruitment, you need to understand the terms “target,” “semi-target,” and “non-target.” “target” schools are colleges where many top financial firms (including BB’s and top prop firms) heavily recruit students on campus. A “non-target” school doesn’t have much campus recruitment and its undergraduates are forced to apply online for positions.* A “semi-target” has some on-campus recruitment, but has fewer visiting firms than a target school. </p>
<p>Although “target” and “non-target” are used extensively in the industry, there is no clear consensus on which colleges are targets. There a handful of college which obviously make the cut (HYPSM, Wharton, Duke, UChicago, etc.), but its difficult to fully determine the target/non-target status of other schools. In addition, some college are targets for certain areas of the industry but weak for other areas. </p>
<p>Here’s a general list of target schools for IB based on everything I’ve read thus far:</p>
<p>Tier 1 - HYPSMW
Tier 2 - UChicago, Duke, Columbia, Cornell AEM
Tier 3 - Cornell (non-AEM), Brown, UPenn (non-Wharton), Dartmouth, NYU Stern
Tier 4 - Georgetown McDonough, UMichigan Ross, UCB Hass
Tier 5 - CMU Tepper, WUSTL, Northwestern, JHU, ND Mendoza</p>
<p>Note that these rankings are just generalizations. There is no way to precisely gauge prestige.</p>
<p>*If you don’t apply for a position at a BB through OCR, its very unlikely that you’ll receive it.</p>
<p>I would put Dartmouth in Tier 2 and UMich Ross in Tier 3, but this list otherwise looks pretty accurate to me.</p>
<p>No, BB do not recruit at Chicago that often. NU gets more notice. Cornell AEM is not more of a target relative to Cornell in general. When IBs come on campus to recruit, it is open to all students, not just AEM students.</p>
<p>Eh. Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I would probably switch Dartmouth and UChicago instead. UChicago, despite its prestige, I think historically had a higher emphasis on academia, meaning that fewer alums are in high-ranking positions at the BB banks, but that’s changing and will probably reach Tier 2 as a whole by the end of the decade. </p>
<p>Also, I thought Stanford, despite its heavy prestige, is underrepresented on Wall Street due to many students wanting to go into start-ups and VC and other things like that? Am I wrong on this?</p>
<p>Dartmouth is very well represented. Most Stanford grads do not want to go to WS, so they are not as heavily recruited. It’s also the case for MIT. Don’t see that many analysts from Brown either. Williams, Colgate, some of those LACs are also visible.</p>
<p>Ok, here’s an updated version of this list. I’m just an incoming freshman so I’m glad that some professionals are taking a look at the list. Thanks for all the input guys! </p>
<p>Tier 1 - HYPSMW
Tier 2 - Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, Cornell
Tier 3 - Brown, UPenn (non-Wharton), UChicago, NYU Stern, UMichigan Ross
Tier 4 - Georgetown McDonough, UCB Hass, Northwestern
Tier 5 - CMU Tepper, WUSTL, JHU, ND Mendoza</p>
<p>You skipped UNC-Chapel Hill
it should be tier 3 with Ross</p>
<p>UNC-CH should NOT be in tier 3 with Ross. It’s presence on the street, from everything I’ve read, is negligible compared to Ross’.</p>
<p>blackangek2, thanks for reminding me about UNC. From what I’ve heard, UNC is more of a tier 4 or 5 school for IB.</p>
<p>Btw, this list only includes college that I’m familiar with. I wanted to expand it to include all college in the top 35 on the USNWR rankings. Do you guys have any suggestions on where to place the other colleges?</p>
<p>Tier 1 - HYPSMW
Tier 2 - Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, Cornell
Tier 3 - Brown, UPenn (non-Wharton), UChicago, NYU Stern, UMichigan Ross
Tier 4 - Georgetown McDonough, UCB Hass, Northwestern, UNC Chapel Hill, ND Mendoza
Tier 5 - CMU Tepper, WUSTL</p>
<p>So consensus is that Duke is a top-10 business school? Does that apply to other areas besides IB?</p>
<p>Top 10 recruited, it doesn’t have an undergraduate business school (neither does any other school in the “2nd tier” besides Cornell)</p>
<p>Okay, I will publicize my ignorance. I have never heard this term and when I saw the title an image of firms who hire people with large waist circumferences came to mind.</p>
<p>You missed University of Virginia Mcintyre, probably tier 3 with Umich Ross</p>
<p>Lol dietz…</p>
<p>Tier 1 - HYPSMW
Tier 2 - Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, Cornell
Tier 3 - Brown, UPenn (non-Wharton), UChicago, NYU Stern, UMichigan Ross
Tier 4 - Georgetown McDonough, UCB Hass, Northwestern, UNC Chapel Hill, ND Mendoza, UVA Mcintyre
Tier 5 - CMU Tepper, WUSTL</p>
<p>All jobs available for Whartonites are also open to all Penn grads.</p>