University representation at the largest Private Equity Firms

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<p>So now private equity is the only career that matters because grads of certain schools have more of a relatively few jobs? Since they got blasted out of the CEO jobs by state school grads they need something to show their superiority. Anyway it’s highly likely half of these PE firms will be going broke in the recession and the rest won’t be doing as much and will not be hiring so good luck to all the fired Ibankers and new grads trying to get jobs with these firms. </p>

<p>I think NFL and NBA careers are far cooler than PE. There are far more Michigan and other state school grads playing in those leagues earning nice $$$. Plus they get way more hot chicks.</p>

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<p>^ LOL! I said it too.

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<p>Sam, did you notice again…Berkeley>NU? :D</p>

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<p>Hawkette, I did not keep track of undergrad vs graduate with the exception of Michigan. In the case of Michigan, it was 17 undergrads (7 BBA, 7 BA/BS and 3 BSE) and 14 grad (11 MBA, 2 JD and 1 PhD in Physics).</p>

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<p>Sam Lee, I actually clicked on all the profiles! LOL! I appologize for missing one NU grad. I am sure I missed a few from each university. I clicked on 1,000 profiles so I am bound to have missed a few. I made the correction above. </p>

<p>UCBChemGrad, with the correction, Cal = NU. Hehe!!!</p>

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<p>While I do think this is a very interesting list (and must’ve taken an immense amount of research), I do think its a incredibly unfair to the schools w/o a business school, namely Princeton and Brown. HBS has about 500 kids a year, thats roughly half of Princeton’s yearly undergraduate population and I do believe HBS explains Harvard’s dominance of this list. </p>

<p>I would venture to guess that Wharton business does the same for Penn. I’d like to see similar list based only on undergrad since such a listing does seem to give several schools (including my alma mater) the shaft. Nevertheless, I do think its quite the impressive showing by Princeton and Brown.</p>

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<p>ucb,
the wildcats just made the last-min field goal to tie the game!!!</p>

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<p>Pesky Wildcats!</p>

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<p>PimpDaddy (I feel ridiculous addressing you!), one should not look at the list as a ranking of a university. Indeed, some amazing universities, like Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Swarthmore etc… have very few alums working in those organizations. Some schools are just less likely to attract students interested in a future in Finance. </p>

<p>This said, I intend to go through the 1,000 or so links over again to break it down by undergrad and graduate alums. Give me a few days. As the HR Director of PE firm myself, I tend to get busy!</p>

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<p>Well, then I demand a recount! :D</p>

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<p>That is indeed a very rare occasion for the Mildcats, no? ;)</p>

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<p>^typical chemE nerd that don’t follow football? the wildcats have been known as cardiac cats! i am sure alexandre remembers that. :wink: </p>

<p>[HuskersHQ:</a> Northwestern’s 'Cardiac ‘Cats’ never give up 12/29/00](<a href=“http://www.theindependent.com/stories/122900/Hus_cats29.html]HuskersHQ:”>http://www.theindependent.com/stories/122900/Hus_cats29.html)</p>

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<p>Actually, college football is my favorite sport…nothing else like it. It’s just Northwestern games aren’t typically on the radar screen here in L.A.</p>

<p>Wow, 3 games…in 1999 no less. At least you guys went to the Rose Bowl…which is more than I can say for my Bears.</p>

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<p>Hey, don’t laugh at NU. They’ve been to the Rose Bowl far more recently than Cal has. Cal hasn’t smelled roses for nearly 50 years now. In fact, sadly, that’s the longest Rose Bowl drought of any team in the Big 10 or Pac 10 (except for Arizona, which has never gone to the Rose Bowl, but Arizona didn’t even join the Pac-10 until 1978).</p>

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<p>that was 2000. i admit they are not consistently good but when they do overachieve, they do so with a lot of drama. it’s not uncommon that they win games in this fashion! when they are competitive, their offense is awesome while their defense remains mediocre…so it’s a lot of fun to watch because they beat you not by stopping you but by scoring more than you. </p>

<p>by the way, they’ve accomplished all that with virtually identical graduate rate as the rest of the student body. can’t help bragging on this one! ;)</p>

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<p>lol! take that from your fellow alum, ucb.</p>

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<p>^ whatever, thats why we have blogs on Cal football titled “A Rose Bowl Before I Die!” Hopefully Tedford can keep some momentum…if only we can send Pete Carroll to the NFL, we’d have a shot once in a while. :(</p>

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<p>Pete Carroll’s been at 'SC since 2000. So, sure, I can perhaps understand why Cal hasn’t “Rose” since that time. But that doesn’t explain the remaining 40 years of that god-damned drought.</p>

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<p>That would be greatly appreciated, thanks alexandre! (and I sent you a PM if you have the time)</p>

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<p>I have just completed a thorough analysis of of each of the 1,000 or so profiles, carefully segragating undergraduate from graduate degrees and I have come up with the following numbers. Again, the results aren’t surprising (with a couple of exceptions like Stanford). </p>

<p>Below, I provide a breakdown of alums into undergraduate and graduate degrees from the 6 PE firms mentioned above (Blackstone, Carlyle, Bain, Silverlake, Warburg and PEP). In cases where an employee receives undergraduate and graduate degrees from the same institution, I only count the undergraduate degree. I only included US colleges and universities with at least 5 undergraduate representatives. </p>

<p>Please keep in mind this does not constitute an academic ranking. There are too few representatives from any one university (save perhaps Harvard) to draw any reasonable conclusion from the stats below. </p>

<h1>1 Harvard University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 62
Graduate: 165
TOTAL: 227 (#1 overall)</p>

<h1>2 University of Pennsylvania</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 61
Graduate: 52
TOTAL: 113 (#2 overall)</p>

<h1>3 Princeton University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 35
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 36 (#6 overall)</p>

<h1>4 Dartmouth College</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 27
Graduate: 11
Total: 38 (#5 overall)</p>

<h1>5 Duke University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 24
Graduate: 7
TOTAL: 31 (#8 overall)</p>

<h1>6 Cornell University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 23
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 29 (#12 overall)</p>

<h1>7 Yale University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 22
Graduate: 8
TOTAL: 30 (#10 overall)</p>

<h1>8 Georgetown University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 21
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 27 (#14 overall)</p>

<h1>9 University of California-Berkeley</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 20
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 26 (#15 overall)</p>

<h1>10 Stanford University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 17
Graduate: 48
TOTAL: 65 (#3 overall)</p>

<h1>10 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 17
Graduate: 14
TOTAL: 31 (#8 overall)</p>

<h1>12 Brown University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 16
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 17 (#18 overall)</p>

<h1>13 Columbia University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 15
Graduate: 33
TOTAL: 48 (#4 overall)</p>

<h1>14 University of Virginia</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 12
Graduate: 9
TOTAL: 21 (#16 overall)</p>

<h1>15 New York University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 11
Graduate: 21
TOTAL: 32 (#7 overall)</p>

<h1>16 Boston College</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 10
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 10 (#20 overall)</p>

<h1>17 University of Texas-Austin</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 9
Graduate: 9
TOTAL: 18 (#17 overall)</p>

<h1>18 Northwestern University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 7
Graduate: 21
TOTAL: 28 (#13 overall)</p>

<h1>18 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 7
Graduate: 4
TOTAL: 11 (#19 overall)</p>

<h1>20 Emory University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6</p>

<h1>20 University of Chicago</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 24
TOTAL: 30 (#10 overall)</p>

<h1>20 University of Notre Dame</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6</p>

<h1>20 Williams College</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6</p>

<h1>24 Middlebury College</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5</p>

<h1>24 Syracuse University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 6</p>

<h1>24 University of California-Los Angeles</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 4
TOTAL: 9</p>

<h1>24 Vanderbilt University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5</p>

<h1>24 Washington & Lee University</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5</p>

<h1>29 SUNY system (including Albany, Binghampton and Oswego):</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 12
Graduate: 3
TOTAL: 15</p>

<h1>30 United States Academies (Air Force, Military and Naval combined)</h1>

<p>Undergraduate: 10
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 10</p>

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<p>^ Nice. :)</p>

<p>Thanks for the work.</p>