<p>im quite confused as to how to approch a acareer as a investment banker. oh ohkay fine i have no idea about it, but i like finance and money and numbers so i guess it fits ?
what top colleges offer it? and what the usuall career path.</p>
<p>Econ or finance if you're not at a target school ( ivies, NYU, UVa, UMich, Georgetown, etc etc etc). Major whatever the hell you want if you're at a target, but econ/finance majors still get a little bit of a boost.</p>
<p>Major in anything but keep a good GPA (like over 3.5 for eng/Science and 3.7 for econ/management/etc)...Engineering/Math/FIn/Econ majors are preferred....
Comes from experienced people so the advice has weight to it..</p>
<p>95% of investment bankers are communications majors.</p>
<p>NYU, UVA, Georgetown are not exactly target school. Unless your an econ or finance major in these school, breaking into top firms would be quite tough.</p>
<p>Thats not completely true for Georgetown, SFSers do well along with the business kids. The college kids don't do so badly either.</p>
<p>"95% of investment bankers are communications majors."</p>
<p>For some reason I highly doubt that. Considering a fair percentage of I-Bankers come from NYU-Stern, Penn-Wharton, MIT-Sloan, and Michigan-Ross...that about rules out at LEAST 20% of majors. I'm pretty sure you just made up a random statistic.</p>
<p>That said, what futurenyustudent said is basically true. You should probably major in Finance or Econ, but if you're at an Ivy you can basically major in whatever you want.</p>
<p>You can major in whatever you want. Investment banks hire people with all types of majors. I had a friend back at UVA who majored in Religious Studies and another who was an engineer, and they ended up at JP Morgan. That said, you still have a better chance of getting hired if you majored in Econ and/or Business. </p>
<p>Re. UVA not being a target school, that's not true. Many banks and other firms recruit at UVA.
<a href="http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/career_services/CCS_Destination_Report_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/career_services/CCS_Destination_Report_2006.pdf</a></p>
<p>i've read online that accounting helps. should i opt for a minor in accounting if i were to pursue investment banking?</p>
<p>would you consider UC Berkeley as one of the target schools for I-banks?</p>
<p>And I'm not talking about Haas Business Major. Just an Econ major.</p>
<p>you have no idea what an I-banker is, yet you want to be one ?, stop picking careers/majors based on the money. If you had any idea what I-bankers do, you'd know what to major in. </p>
<p>Picking a major/career based on money is by far the worse decision you can ever make. yes, the pay is good, IF you're good at it. If you just pick it based on prestige and/or money, chances are you'll never actually be an i-banker, much less a successful one.</p>
<p>Berkley is trying to become a target. </p>
<p>Major at a community college in nursing, sure way to ibanking</p>
<p>math/physics/econ</p>
<p>RijeosXeper, what is an i banker? can you provide an accurate definition to that question? i dont know if you can</p>
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<p>agreed (10)</p>
<p>how abt indiana @ kelley school of biz? for finance. a job at IB?</p>
<p>Kelley at Indiana is a very solid tier 2 target school. I think.</p>
<p>nyustudent stop throwing word target around .. besides ivies and stern not too many schools/programs are anywhere near "target"</p>
<p>Oh, please. I know you kids like to think of Ibanking as the Holy Grail but this is getting stupid.</p>
<p>Any Top15 business school per BusinessWeek or any Top30 overall per USNews with a good GPA and resume will get you an interview. From then on it's up to the individual.</p>
<p>It is not like after the interview the hirer's will think: "Well, he can't form a cogent thought and he flubbed all the brainteasers... But he went to Harvard so he gets the job."</p>
<p>And it's not like it's hard to look any of this up, most schools love to brag about their employment figures and post them all over their websites. Good business schools in particular are fans of this, McIntire, Kelley, Ross, Haas all of them have very detailed career statistics floating around.</p>
<p>Even schools such as Princeton that don't do business post something in terms of career statistics:</p>
<p>My bottom line here, guitars_girls (and Kahlen too), is that you are not helpless. You don't need to come here begging "surferdude69" and God knows who else for advice on a life-altering decision. Honestly, what are you going to say when it turns out you made the wrong decision in basing your college and career choices on word-of-mouth? "Well, cooldude82 said it was true..."</p>
<p>Do your own research, make your own decision and live your own life.</p>
<p>MK: No need to be belligerent. Whatever. My point is that Kelley is a good school for IB.</p>