Wash U's Business School...

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<p>I tried asking this question in the Wash U forum, and didn't get very good responses (I posed the question weirdly there) - but essentially, I was wondering if anyone can give insight into Wash U's (specifically the Olin school of business) job placement. How many graduates are sent to Wall Street and/or Investment Banking and who are typical recruiters/employers? I am having trouble finding job placement statistics published by Wash U. Thanks!</p>

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<p>The John M. Olin Business School’s BSBA program ranked No. 13 in the nation in BusinessWeek’s 2010 rankings of undergraduate business schools. Compared to the more than 100 other undergraduate business school programs ranked, Olin was:</p>

<p>No. 1 in average SAT score of incoming freshman for fall 2009
No. 1 as a feeder school of students who enroll in the top 35 ranked MBA programs in the country
No. 7 for the highest median starting salary for Class of 2009 graduates
In the top 10 for job placement of the top 50 schools ranked, with 94 percent of 2009 BSBA graduates reporting job offers within three months of graduation</p>

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<p>Perfect, very helpful</p>

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<p>“How many graduates are sent to Wall Street and/or Investment Banking and who are typical recruiters/employers?”</p>

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<p>Olin is not well recruited. In those tiers (in the investment banking section) with Harvard and Wharton on 1; Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, and MIT on 2; Brown, Duke, UChicago, Northwestern, etc. on 3; Olin is usually not even ranked or is on 4 or 5.</p>

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<p>^ Where would Penn non-Wharton be in that tier system?</p>

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<p>It will be very tough, if not impossible, to break into Wall Street from Olin.</p>

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<p>The tiers for target schools can be debatable (Brown’s placement is especially susceptible to fluctuation in rank) but I get the idea that going from Olin to Wall Street would difficult. Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>Usually in 2 or 3, depends on who you ask. Personally I would say 3. Here is a helpful link that I found:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/977935-top-target-schools-ib.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/977935-top-target-schools-ib.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Job placement statistics published by WashU:
<a href=“http://www.olin.wustl.edu/docs/WCC/employmentBSBA.pdf[/url]”>http://www.olin.wustl.edu/docs/WCC/employmentBSBA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>YES! That’s what I was looking for, thanks a bunch Gatsby.</p>

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<p>“The tiers for target schools can be debatable (Brown’s placement is especially susceptible to fluctuation in rank) but I get the idea that going from Olin to Wall Street would difficult. Thanks everyone!”</p>

<p>Brown’s placement isn’t that susceptible to fluctuation in rank. It has nearly always been on 3. People in the business world who are hiring (not the HR) don’t really rely on rankings to get a sense of the reputation of each school; instead, they base their sense of reputation on how many impressive people they have met in their career from each school and on other personal experiences. That’s why old, established schools such as Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc. do extremely well. Non-Wharton Penn would definitely be in 3, despite Penn’s success in manipulating its rankings in USNews.</p>

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<p>IvyPBear, you seem to contradict yourself about Brown…</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065414213-post13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065414213-post13.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/977935-top-target-schools-ib.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/977935-top-target-schools-ib.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Did it’s “tier status” change in 2 months? But anyway point taken.</p>

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<p>“IvyPBear, you seem to contradict yourself about Brown…”</p>

<p>I never even included Brown in that previous list you dug up. Not including something doesn’t necessarily mean that I believed that it didn’t belong on the tiered list. It could simply have been that I forgot about Brown.</p>