<p>I would put USC and CalTech in Tier 1. What about the California Catholic schools (SCU, USF, LMU and USD)? Maybe SCU in Tier 3 and the others in Tier 4? There is also Pepperdine, Oxy, other private schools, etc.</p>
<p>Stanford and Berkeley Haas place the best into west coast banking by far. USC is decent too. My group specifically targeted those schools for west coast recruitment.</p>
<p>^ The usual suspects - Ivies, MIT, a couple other top schools. Wharton, Harvard, Princeton are at the top, followed by other Ivies and Ivy-equivalents. Not sure if Duke counts as east coast, but that has decent recruitment as well.</p>
<p>Caltech is actually up here with Stanford. Obviously, most Caltech students are not interested in business/finance. But those that are get placed just as well as Stanford students. I’ve heard that McKinsey, for example, likes to recruit Caltech students.</p>
<p>I have never seen or heard of any caltech students working in investment banking. I know some really strong trading firms, places like DE Shaw, recruit at caltech, but I would not consider it a target school for people trying to get into IBD. I’m pretty sure the bank I work at does not actively recruit from caltech for IB.</p>
<p>Stanford is obviously the top target in the west coast, followed by berkeley, usc (trojan network is very strong in LA), and maybe ucla.</p>