LinkedIn shows zero summer interns at Bank of England who attended Harvard. They also don’t have any results for anyone who listed their college as Harvard and current or past employer as Bank of England, so it doesn’t sound like this has changed recently. Instead the intern and quality positions appear to be dominated by students at British universities, which makes sense considering Bank of England’s internship requirement that “non-British/Irish nationals are required to be currently studying at a UK university and hold a valid Tier 4 student visa.” I expect that a student interested in such UK positions would have a much better chance of achieving goals by studying as an international at British colleges.
I’m not sure which EC stagiare internship you are referring to, but in general it’s not the college that arranges the internship, it’s the student and employer. Desirable employers may recruit at certain colleges and not others, but which colleges they choose are rarely primarily based on prestige. For example, it’s quite common for some desirable employers to choose to recruit at the state flagship, including for interns, rather than Harvard. It depends on many factors, including the employer and position.
Continuing the linked in example, the most common colleges for some example positions at various employers are below. Harvard tend to do well at “elite” Wall Street finance type positions, but not in many other desired fields.
Software … Intern at Google
- Stanford
- CMU
- Berkeley
- Waterloo
- UT Austin
Software … Intern at Microsoft
- GeorgiaTech
- BirlaTech (India)
- UCSD
- Purdue
- Maryland
Intern at NASA
- U Houston
- UCF
- Columbia
- UT Austin
- Purdue
Intern at SpaceX
- GeorgiaTech
- Purdue
- MIT
- Michigan
- UCLA
… Analyst at Goldman Sachs NYC Office
- Columbia
- Cornell
- London School of Economics
- Harvard
- Penn