<p>What are some less selective universities that have trading floors or trading labs?</p>
<p>Depaul</p>
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<p>U of Dayton.</p>
<p>As someone who’s worked in Investment Banking for nearly thirty years, I can tell you that this is perhaps one of the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard.</p>
<p>Unfortunately 30 years doesn’t by helpfulness. </p>
<p>My S went to Fordham and they have one. I know Bentley (another school he considered) has one too. At this point I think many many business schools have trading floors – you can probably look online for any school you are interested in and see if they have one. That said, I would not select or eliminate any particular school based only on that attribute.</p>
<p>I can’t recall visiting any business schools recently that don’t have one.</p>
<p>@soze what college did you go to for undergrad?</p>
<p>Sitting on a fake trading floor at a busness school teaches you nothing and anybody who would hire you knows that.</p>
<p>So, I stand by my contention that it’s a dumb question. You should not be choosing a school based on whether or not it has a trading floor.</p>
<p>Oh and P.S. Since you asked, I went to Brandeis which certainly didn’t have a trading floor when I was there and I have no idea if they have one now (not that it matters).</p>
<p>Coming from an investment banker, is it worth pursuing investment banking? @soze</p>
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I never met an investment banker at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley who went to Brandeis.</p>
<p>Now, back to the question: Villanova has a trading floor. No bank hires anyone because they have “experience” on a school’s dummied-up “trading floor.” They hire for other reasons.</p>
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<p>Firstly, just because you never met one, does not mean that they don’t exist. You appear to be engaging in a logical fallacy of personal increduality. Also have you met a sufficient number of investment bankers to make that observation statistically significant?</p>
<p>Secondly, I never said I worked for GS or MS. </p>
<p>Thirdly, I never said that Brandeis was a particulary good (or bad for that matter) school to go to if you want to be in Investment Banking. I just said I went there because the OP asked (and as I said above, it’s not germaine to the question at hand).</p>
<p>So, what’s your point, exactly?</p>
<p>@cnikroo: That’s too broad a question and one that is really outside the scope of this forum. I was really just addressing the point that the presence or absense of a “trading floor” at a particular school should not be a data point in assessing whether or not you should go there.</p>
<p>I’m interested in investment banking and I was curious about the career and what school is best for pursuing a career in IB @soze</p>
<p>@soze - why would you feel the need to call any question asked by a (presumably) teenaged kid dumb? You could have suggested a better way to phrase the question or given your same answer in a more respectful way. With experience comes wisdom and knowledge- why discourage these kids from asking questions for fear of those questions being deemed dumb?</p>
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<p>I have met with and worked with many investment bankers – none of them went to Brandeis. Thus, my personal statistical sample is 100% and my statement, “I never met an investment banker at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley who went to Brandeis” is completely true on its face as a fact. My statistical sample is statistically significant . . . to me. I met bankers from Harvard, Duke, Williams, Wellesley, Penn, etc. Multiples of same. Just never met a Brandeis one. I agree with you, they may exist, they certainly exist! They just don’t exist in my experience and since my experiences spanned time and lots of people, I found Brandeis to be comparatively unproliferated throughout the bulge bracket. You may be the exception.</p>
<p>I never accused you of working for GS or MS, but then by implying you did/do not, you prove my point about Brandeis (lack of) in the bulge bracket.</p>
<p>I think my point was that the OP was trying to draw proof of your bonafides re commenting on the linkages between colleges and Wall Street. You offered your opinion as somewhat definitive on the subject (as someone who seemingly works on the Street). The OP – altogether naturally – sought to do some credentials-checking to gauge the expertise behind what was told to her. </p>
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And do tell – how many of those colleges have trading floors?</p>