<p>I agree with Pat. My son is at UIUC as a sophomore and had decided to pursue the IB track. There seems to be a lot of opportunities for him. </p>
<p>My advice would be to talk to the Deans of both programs and ask some of the questions raised during this thread. I have been very pleased with the amount of help the Deans have been to my DS. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks IBtired for the insight. Does this weighting seem pretty accurate to you?
(some of the colleges i’m applying to)</p>
<p>New York University > Carnegie Mellon University > Boston College > UIUC > UT</p>
<p>??</p>
<p>Also, where do you think places like Cornell/WashU/uMich would fall here?</p>
<p>For Investment Banking, right?
Umich (Ross) = Cornell = NYU (Stern) >> WashU > CMU = BC > UIUC = UT Austin </p>
<p>UIUC might have a slight edge on UT Austin.
CMU is a bit hard to tell since the business school is quite small.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t put NYU ahead of wustl or CMU</p>
<p>I think Stern should definitely be up there. It has the recruiting of the Ivies in NYC. </p>
<p>I would agree with Pat. That does seem like a very accurate depiction of IB recruiting, even though I’m a bit unfamiliar with Wash and UMich.</p>
<p>@barrk123: why not? I thought NYU’s exceptional biz school + amazing location would make it perfect for IB recruitment o.0. Please explain.</p>
<p>Also, can anyone generate a similar ranking for Quantitative analysis/Financial Engineering/Computational Finance?</p>
<p>Thanks all!</p>
<p>From what I have seen almost every ibank that recruits from NYU also recruits from BC, WUSTL and CMU</p>
<p>It depends what we’re basing the rankings off of. Only recruiting? I could see that. I don’t think people go to CMU or WUSTL if they’re set on Ibanking. I think they’d rather go to Stern.</p>
<p>@barrk123: does it recruit as much? like why would WashU/CMU specifically be above nyu</p>
<p>Barrk, although I would agree with you, I don’t think they take the same quantity of students from those schools. I think they pick up more students from NYU than BC, WUSTL, and CMU (possibly combined). Don’t quote me on that, though.</p>
<p>CMU has a top Finance program and Wustl-Olin is highly ranked as well</p>
<p>Of course they would take more from NYU, Stern has 5000 students.</p>
<p>so barrk are you saying that %wise they take the same amt from each of the schools??</p>
<p>I am not sure, I am just saying NYU isn’t far and away that much better than CMU or WUSTL</p>
<p>I think Stern has an enrollment of more around 2000-2500, but point taken. Unfortunately, Stern does not publish in depth placement data. I’m not sure if WashU or CMU do, but looking at those could give a lot of key information.</p>
<p>ok thanks barrk. I see what you mean. Pat you’re right it would be useful if we had more detailed placement information available. Ah well</p>
<p>For purely IBD, Stern is your best bet simply because it offers a four year program (unlike Michigan Ross which needs you to apply as a freshmen), is in the epicenter of finance (unlike Cornell), and has the 2nd best finance program. Similarly, however, the competition for Investment Banking gigs will also be the most intense.</p>
<p>WUSTL is not more recruited than CMU, Boston College, or even UT-Austin for that matter. It has a pretty weak brand name and is in a poor location.</p>
<p>For investment banking recruiting purposes, I would rank them as:</p>
<ol>
<li>NYU (Stern), Cornell (AEM), Michigan (Ross)</li>
<li>CMU (Tepper), Boston College (CSOM), UT-Austin (McCombs)</li>
<li>Illinois, WUSTL</li>
</ol>
<p>^ WUSTL may not have a strong brand name for common folk. But recruiters know WUSTL. Especially those in Chicago. </p>
<p>I did some further search and 19% of WUSTL’s business class went into Ibanking last year. Not nearly as much as Stern, but still a pretty hefty percent. (I would also guess that Stern students are in general more interested in IB).</p>
<p><a href=“http://olincareers.wustl.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDFs/WCC/EmploymentBSBA.pdf[/url]”>Error;
<p>yeah $70k is a pretty nice figure, especially considering it’s pre-bonus. </p>
<p>Idk what the salaries are like if you graduate from the others. Anyone have statistics?</p>
<p>There are statistics for almost all of them. I’m not going to go through the hassle, and nobody else should. Google is quite a fine tool, bud :)</p>
<p>lol ok i’m gunna search nyu… gl to myself xD</p>