<p>Next year I'll be going to Hopkins as an econ major and probably double minor in financial econ and entrepreneurship & management. From what I've learned and understood, the econ department at Hopkins is small but strong and growing. After undergrad, I plan on working for a few years and then applying to grad school for an MBA. Right now, I'm very interested in investment banking. I know that employers are well aware of Hopkins' reputation in medicine, but do big businesses (Deutche Bank, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, GS, etc.) value the well-roundedness of a liberal arts education from a top university? Or would they gravitate more towards recruiting from a college that may not be regarded as highly as Hopkins but with a strong business school? </p>
<p>Also... same question for graduate business schools. Do the best grad business schools prefer students who studied business in a more liberal arts environment or went to a business school in a "worse" college. </p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Are you trying to get into banking before or after your MBA?</p>
<p>If before, do banks recruit from your school? IE do they come on campus and give presentations and have a resume drop for interested students? If not it’s going to be an uphill battle because banks can always fill their analyst positions with kids from their “target schools” where they recruit. It’s not impossible to get in if you don’t go to a target school but you’ll need to contact alumni working in banking and try to leverage those relationships into interviews.</p>
<p>If after, just do everything you can do get into a top MBA program and then banks will come to your campus to recruit you.</p>
<p>I am talking about working after undergrad and before getting my MBA. From what I understand, banks usually do not recruit at Hopkins. However, I do know that lot of people do get jobs with big banks. I am still worried, though, that going to a non-target school will make it almost impossible to find a good banking job if I do not have connections.</p>
<p>You need to make the connections. Your career services office should be able to give you a list of alumni and where they’re working, you can also use linkedin. From there, start calling/emailing people and try to set up a time to talk to them regarding recruiting at their and eventually you ask about internships/FT positions. JH is a great school, I’m sure a lot of people go on to banking, you just need to reach out to them.</p>
<p>[Center</a> for Financial Economics](<a href=“Center for Financial Economics | Johns Hopkins University”>http://cfe.econ.jhu.edu/)</p>
<p>The Center for Financial Economics, a developing program for those planning to work in the Finance industry. </p>
<p>Recruiting for banking is mediocre at best. Career services isn’t great. Not usually a target school. However, many Hopkins alum have done well in the banking sector so connections can play a role. </p>
<p>Compared to a state school with a good business school like Indiana or Texas (familiar with both), I would say that on-campus recruiting is much stronger in these places than it is at Hopkins. There are just not enough students to warrant major efforts.</p>