<p>There were several engineers in my MBA class, and I know many Cornell engineering grads who went on to careers in finance and who received MBAs from top schools (most of the people I am thinking of were OR/IE at Cornell). I know that the OR/IE majors were heavily recruited by bulge bracket investment banks for analyst programs (at least they were several years ago). I assume the same would be true for engineers from other unversities.</p>