Does a Hopkins student have a chance at IBanking?

<p>I'm a student at Hopkins with a decent GPA majoring in engineering. Since it is ranked fairly highly on US News and is pretty selective, it seems like it should get decent attention from IBanks. However, it doesn't seem like they recruit here very often. Is it because JHU doesn't have a business school and thus doesn't have many students interested in the field or is it because, for some reason or another, they aren't interested in Hopkins students.</p>

<p>Yes, JHU is one of those semi-target schools for IB in the East Coast.</p>

<p>Generally speaking, the major feeders are the following: Ivys, MIT, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, NYU, Duke, Stanford, Berkeley, Northwestern and Chicago.</p>

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<p>lack of interest. Have you been to the career center. If I remember correctly, this is recruitment cycle starts around now- check which companies are visiting hopkins, also try and find out from the career advisor which IBs are receptive to the small population of hopkins students interested in this career path. You can get a headstart if you can make alumni contacts and such.</p>

<p>Also look into Management consulting. All the MBB firms and Booz recruit from hopkins. I think because its close to DC it would likely have a lot of recruitment from firms like Booz Allen</p>

<p>I’m actually a bit surprised that Hopkins doesn’t do as well with IBanking as Cornell/Brown/Northwestern, considering they’re all about equal in prestige. Maybe it’s because more Hopkins students go to grad school. </p>

<p>Anyway, if Hopkins is a “semi target”, should I focus on the smaller banks that might be more receptive? </p>

<p>Also, I have looked into consulting and Booz Allen in particular.</p>

<p>Apply everywhere you can- do you know what banks interview on campus?</p>

<p>Look: <a href=“https://jhu-csm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?mode=list&cf=fallcf2010[/url]”>https://jhu-csm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?mode=list&cf=fallcf2010&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I see no banks which is kind of weird. I would not call Johns Hopkins a semi-target but even less. I think its because it has more academic people and less social/outgoing people from what I have seen. Most would jump into engineering, consulting and graduate school.</p>

<p>I dont know much about targetting but even if a company does not conduct on-campus interviews or target your school, its still very very possible for you to get a position. It would just be harder.</p>

<p>JHU has positioned itself as a place for higher education and research. If you are doing engineering at JHU and looking for a job in the Consulting/IB, you may find it difficult! In fact, I find a lot more enginneers from the top-notch public universities in New York than from JHU.</p>

<p>This is true. The best and brightest at JHU tend to go into research and a lot seem to go into consulting. In general, it wouldn’t make sense for someone to go to JHU to become an engineer since one can go to more or less any school and do that.</p>

<p>Someone in my daughter’s internship class who is from JHU said no IB recruited there. He got the internship on his own. </p>

<p>Just because a school has high ranking doesn’t make it a target school. A very good example is U. Of Chicago. A lot of it has to do with the type of students each school admits, and number of alums at each of those firms. At the end of internship, alums from each school try to get as many interns from their school offered permanent positions. Often it’s the alums who go back to their schools to recruit.</p>

<p>UChicago has a very good reputation on wall street, definitely not too hard getting a job out of there.</p>

<p>Any stats to back that up? Which firm recruits there and how many were hired in the last few years?</p>

<p>Booth has to have some pull I’m guessing.</p>

<p>I hate to revive my own thread, but I can offer some new information. The big banks do post applications and have resume drop periods at Hopkins, but for the most part they don’t come to career fairs. This is probably a combination of Hopkins not having a lot of students going into IB as well as the smaller size of the school. </p>

<p>Hopkins has an internship board consortium with Chicago and Dartmouth as well as a few small/respected LACs, and there are a few IB places on that board that aren’t on the Hopkins board, so one of those schools might have a little bit more more pull.</p>

<p>Dartmouth is a heavy IB recruit. Chicago less so, and JHU significantly less so. However JHU people would get a lot of priority if they apply since it is a very good school. For example, a lot of consulting firms might not target a particular school but would always take lots of their graduates for their regional offices.</p>

<p>Also if you search some linkedin profiles, you would find a lot of successful JHU people at any firm. So its all up to u and not the school u come from.</p>