<p>Well, I want to go into I-Banking for a little while before I pursue anything else, and I was looking for schools that would offer good studies for that, and also schools that recruiters come to with job offers.</p>
<p>I know of the top tier schools like Penn, HYPS, etc., but what other good schools are there for this that aren't as well known to the common public?</p>
<p>Business Week Rankings are a good resource to start with. Since you're interested in I-Banking, you want to look at job placement as your number 1 factor. </p>
<p>That said, UVA, MIT, Emory, Michigan, NYU, Indiana, USC, Minnesota, and Northeastern top the list for job placement. Villanova, Lehigh, Boston College, etc. are up there too.</p>
<p>To answer your specific question, Emory, Indiana, Northeastern, and Minnesota would probably be the "hidden gems" of the list.</p>
<p>U of South Carolina's International Business program is hot and well-regarded!</p>
<p>The best are, without a doubt, HYPSM, Penn (b/c of Wharton), Columbia (b/c it's almost up there with HYPSM in general and is in NYC) and perhaps NYU Stern.</p>
<p>s snack -
Well, I have a doubt. NYU Stern isn't as good as some would make it seem, and Columbia is not up there with HYPSM in general (up there with Dartmouth and Brown though). I would say Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Wharton are all tops, and then the rest of the top privates. </p>
<p>In terms of hidden gems...
Of course, Stern is a great school and is not quite as difficult to get in as the Ivy-ish schools, so I would look at that. Also consider Boston College, Michigan, and Lehigh. When coming from these schools, look at middle market IBs, as the largest banks usually only recruit for investment banking from a very set number of target schools.</p>
<p>Sorry Thoughtproccess, but your statement about Columbia Business not being of the same caliber as Harvard et al is comical.</p>
<p>So much of the information flying around in this thread is just plain wrong. For one, Michigan's Ross is in a different league than BC and Lehigh for BB IB recruitment. The top investment banks are the most common employers for Ross grads. Minnesota and Northeastern? Are you kidding me? Disregard all this and go here for a better idea of the top schools for IB recruiting:</p>
<p>ive heard that if you graduate from the williams school of commerce at W&L, youre almost guaranteed to become an i-banker!</p>
<p>I love how people stress over this. Very few actually get more than a back office slave job. Very few get a job to begin with. Not many schools are recruited at compared to business in general. Not to mention you have to dedicate a good...what? seven years of your life?</p>
<p>LakeWashington - we're talking about undergrad, saying Columbia is pretty much as good as HYPSM is not reality, so its really not that comical.</p>
<p>jnpn - Michigan is heavily recruited by I-banks but is easier to get into - that is why its being mentioned.</p>
<p>Recruitment falls like this:
HYP, Wharton, MIT, Stanford <--- though MIT tends to go on Trading/Quant side.
Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, Penn College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago, Northwestern, Mich's Ross, UCB Haas</p>
<p>Almost every major bank recruits at every single one of those schools. For most of these schools, large investment banks are the top employers. I am talking about undergrad for all of this by the way - might have missed one or two.</p>
<p>You need a solid GPA (3.6 plus), somewhat relevant experience and significant leadership to get into the interview stage. The difference between Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth, and Penn CAS to a recruiter is insignificant - using Tahoma instead of Times Roman on your resume probably plays a bigger role.</p>
<p>The way recruitment works - the recruiter gets all of the resumes from students at a certain school, sits down and weeds through them. Then, at the interview stage, candidates are again screened, and then all candidates are invited to NYC to compete with candidates across all schools. </p>
<p>Put it this way: IB recruiters want to strongest students, they'll go wherever to get those.</p>
<p>Going to the best private school in terms of reputation possible will probably open up the most doors for you.</p>
<p>Also, outside of the top private Universities and Mich and Berkeley, don't forget Williams and Amherst - which do get recruited by top banks.</p>
<p>I disagree with thoughtprocess. I would say the list is the following</p>
<p>Harvard Yale MIT Wharton Stanford Princeton
Dartmouth / Columbia/ Penn CAS / Michigan Ross
Brown / Duke / Northwestern / Chicago / Cornell </p>
<p>idk the rest</p>
<p>Columbiahopeful - I think our lists are almost identical</p>
<p>Btw, food for thought (it was posted on a different thread about a similar discussion)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768%5B/url%5D">http://www.ibankingoasis.com/node/5768</a></p>
<p>Pretty much mimics me and Columbiahopeful's lists.</p>
<p>jnpn - Chill. I wasn't insinuating that Minnesota and Northeastern are equal to top schools. I was simply citing some schools that scored well in the job placement category of the Business Week Rankings. All of the schools I listed received an A or above. </p>
<p>The OP already knows about HYP, Wharton, etc. Everyone does. She wanted to explore lesser-known (but still strong) options.</p>
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<p>He's not talking about job placement. He is talking about IB job placement. Very different. The businessweek job placement category does not rank based on IB placement. Schools like Northeastern do an amazing job of getting their students internships/jobs, but at the same time are not recruited by investment banks.</p>
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<p>Though this year the acceptance rate at Ross for HS seniors is <10%, and ~30% for UM freshman, I do agree that it is one of the easier targets to get in to. The only issue is taking that risk of going to UM solely for the hopes of getting in to Ross.</p>