Hi, I’m very interest in going into private equity or investment banking. What schools have a good finance program with good recruitment, other than the Ivies (something similar to NYU). I would prefer a school in a major city, like NY or something similar. Thanks
Other than Ivy schools? MIT, Duke, Stanford, and USC come to mind.
Georgetown, Boston College, Villanova, Boston University, Fordham.
These are all urban, East Coast universities that Bloomberg ranks among the top 50 undergraduate business programs.
@chopstickshalf Lehigh and Bucknell have first rate alumni networks and excellent job placement. Both business schools are excellent.
You can also go the liberal arts college route as well.
Baruch?
@boolaHI How are the recruitment opportunities at USC? I feel like SoCal doesn’t have many people trying to go into finance, so no one wants to recruit there.
Well that’s a surprise.
Look for example at linked in:
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Wharton has a campus in San Francisco. So does Babson. LA has the makings of a major venture capital industry. Sand Hill Road is just 400 miles north. And San Diego is very much a center of the biotech industry. Lots and lots of investment money in California. Much of it is managed from within California.
Not true. Many of the IBs, VCs, etc…on the west coast are filled with USC graduates. By way of example, see:http://www.kpcb.com/teams
The major world financial centers located in the US are:
- NY
- SF (Northern California)
- Chicago
- Boston
12.DC
LA does not make the top 80 world wide. The distance from Boston to NY is 180 miles, Boston to DC is just over 400 miles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index
US Venture Capital is another story
1.SF (Northern Ca.)
2.SJ (Northern Ca.)
3. Boston
4. NY
5. LA
6. Seattle
7. Oakland (Northern Ca.)
9. DC
10. San Diego (about 500 miles from SF)
Are you truly “interested in private equity and I-banking” or is it that you heard these careers make a lot of money? Get real - I doubt you have an “interest.”
chopstickshaif, do your best at school get strong SAT results, work on your 2-3 ECs, get into a good university and get a good undergraduate education. In other words, develop yourself unconditionally and intrinsically. Once your Sophomore year in college comes around, should IB/VC/PE still be an interest, you will be in a good position to get an internship in a financial services firm.
Keep in mind that many 13-17 year olds are enamored with the thought of being a jet-setting financier, but when exposed to the nature of the work, the vast majority change their minds. That is why I suggest the approach above. Work on developing yourself, not on some distant and uncertain goal.
Anyway, here are some big-city schools that are good-great for aspiring bankers:
Boston College
Columbia University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Villanova University
Many target schools, however, are not located in major cities:
Amherst College
Brown University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Middlebury College
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of Virginia
Yale University
I just listed two dozen, but there are obviously many more.