Hi,
So I know that Wharton, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, etc. all have tremendous placement on Wall Street and top Management Consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Ernst and Young, and the like.
But what about Liberal Arts Colleges? How do they place?
I’ve read that Williams/Amherst/to an extent Swarthmore are the best target schools that compete with the likes of Georgetown, Stern, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.
But how about Pomona, Bowdoin, Middlebury? Or maybe even Haverford, Davidson, Carleton and Clermont McKenna?
In other words, how would you compare these to the likes of HYPSM, Wharton, etc, and which ones would compare to that level? Which ones are a tier below, and to what other colleges would you relate them to in terms of placement? I’m a bit more concerned with Mgmt, but also keeping in mind Wall Street recruitment.
You can get work at the firms like Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, kPMG, or Ernst and Young from tons of places. For example, when I worked at Accenture, one of the schools we recruited at was Luthet College in Iowa. NDSU was another place. Now, did we hire more people from higher ranked schools? Yes. But we also hired some from those places every year. Go major in something like Econ or CS and do well, and you have a shot at it. My D’s boyfriend went to Dickinson, and he works for Deloitte.
@intparent Ok that’s great to hear. So most of your hires did not require an MBA for a Mgmt job? They were hired just with a Bachelor’s Degree?
Yup. Once you get there, it is about what you can do. Now… business knowledge IS helpful in the job.
Here are LinkedIn’s rankings for schools that send people into Investment Banking. Not necessarily what you’d expect.
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Why are these schools a surprise?