Hopeful Investment Banker!

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am looking for REALLY good Econ/Business programs that will lead me to an Investment Banking job. Thoughts have already included Wharton, UT-Austin, Notre Dame, Emory, Princeton, yale etc etc. Any hidden programs out there that are known for their job placements w/ IB's?</p>

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<p>Any Ivy (you noticeably left out Harvard). University of Chicago, Duke, UC-Berkeley (Haas), NYU (Stern), Stanford, Williams, Amherst, Middlebury are all well-recruited too.</p>

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<p>USNEWS 2006</p>

<p>Undergraduate business specialties:
Finance </p>

<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)<br></li>
<li>New York University (Stern)<br></li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * </li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley (Haas) * </li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) * </li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan)<br></li>
<li>Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) * </li>
<li>Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) * </li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (PA) </li>
<li>U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) *
Univ. of Southern California (Marshall)<br>
University of Virginia (McIntire) * </li>
</ol>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/business/bizspec02.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/business/bizspec02.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also look at the BusinessWeek rankings:</p>

<p><a href="http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As an example IU's Kelley sent 27% of its 2006 Finance majors into Ibanking. Thats approximately 160 IBanking analysts, not including people who majored in things other than Finance and still went into IBanking.</p>

<p><a href="http://ucso.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/brochures/Finance.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ucso.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/brochures/Finance.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here's a post by another user that talks about UMich and UofI and how many they send to Ibanking:</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2758534#post2758534%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2758534#post2758534&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Oh yeah, I forgot UMich. But please don't post the USNews u-grad business rankings...they're pretty bad aside from #1. Georgetown and Emory are both better at placement than OSU and probably IU. OSU at #8?!?! Sure, they education may be good (however one evaluates that), but for business, the only thing that matters is recruiting and salary.</p>

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Oh yeah, I forgot UMich. But please don't post the USNews u-grad business rankings...they're pretty bad aside from #1. Georgetown and Emory are both better at placement than OSU and probably IU. OSU at #8?!?! Sure, they education may be good (however one evaluates that), but for business, the only thing that matters is recruiting and salary.

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<p>In terms of sheer numbers IU actually placed more IBank analysts than UMich in 2006. Approximately 160 from IU versus approximately 100 from UMich (See above links)</p>

<p>But as far as the USNews rankings go, thats why I put up the BusinessWeek rankings as well. Most good programs fare well in both rankings.</p>

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<p>From what I saw from my analyst class, ones below and above mine and friends' analyst classes, the following schools had the best placement:</p>

<p>Harvard
Penn (almost entirely Wharton)
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
Duke
Stanford
Georgetown
UVA
UChicago
Northwestern
UMichigan
BC
Notre Dame
UTexas
NYU</p>

<p>LACs:
Williams
Amherst
Bowdoin
Colgate
Middlebury
Haverford
Hamilton
Colby</p>

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<p>The reason I left out Harvard is due to a lack of interest in my part. I just have never been a fan of going to Havard for undergrad. One of the factors is I wish to go to Havard for an MBA potentially down the road, and would like a change of pace from undergrad to job to another school for MBA.</p>

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<p>Also, you don't have to be an econ/finance major for IBanking!</p>

<p>They will train you! </p>

<p>Of course some coursework is important.</p>

<p>Target schools should by Ivies, Stanford, Duke, NU, Chicago, UBerkeley...most top schools are heavy recruiting grounds</p>

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<p>Emory? Notre Dame? Dude read the lists above...apply to more heavily recruited schools. Though these are great schools in their own respect, there are many other schools about equally as difficult to get into that place better.</p>

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<p>I like Notre Dame for many reasons, not just for school. I love watching sports, and ND football is amazing. The overall "family" atmosphere to ND is also a plus.</p>

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<p>My experience (as someone who lives in NYC with a ton of banking exposure and who has an Ivy MBA) is that for the elite firms ignore the program rank and go to any of the top 10-15 USNEWS UNDERGRAD schools (basically the Ivies "plus") + the top 3-4 LACs (ex. Williams has amazing placement for example) overall. Then look at the top 3-4 undergrad business schools according to USNEWS. Any of these are the strongest feeders. The rest (top 25 USNEWS Universities, top 15 LACs, top 12 UG business) will give you opportunities but mostly at the lesser firms.</p>