Your kids will be fine.. college name doesn’t matter as much as dcum tells you

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Kid’s school is on the list and that’s not even an area the school is best known for….

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Anonymous wrote:Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)

According to chatgpt - Jane Street data
For Interns (2025 cohort, ~72 people)
Stanford: 6 interns
University of Chicago: 5
UC Berkeley: 4
Harvard: 4
Tied at 3 interns each: Cambridge, Yale, and six other schools

Note: MIT and Waterloo, though strong pipelines, had just 1 intern each in this particular group

Full‑time / Current Employees
MIT dominates (~76 alumni at Jane Street)
University of Cambridge: ~67
Oxford: ~62


Top North American schools among employees include (but aren’t limited to): Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton


In APAC: University of Waterloo (engineering interns), University of Hong Kong (APAC hires) also feature prominently

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🧭 Summary Table
Group Most Represented Schools
Interns Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard
Full‑time staff MIT, Cambridge, Oxford; Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton (NA)

Key Takeaways
MIT leads overall, especially for full-time roles.

For 2025 interns, Stanford and Chicago are top feeders.

Cambridge and Oxford have strong full-time representation, less so among interns.

Jane Street also pulls from strong public STEM schools like UC Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, and UT Austin.

Jane Street focuses heavily on STEM-heavy campuses with strong math, computer science, and engineering programs. While brand-name universities dominate, they will still consider talent from top public and international STEM schools—especially during staff hires as opposed to internships .

TL;DR
Jane Street interns most come from Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, and Harvard. Full-time staff are mostly from MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, with strong representation from elite STEM schools worldwide. Yet you don’t have to attend an Ivy‑name school—outstanding performance from top STEM public or international schools can still land you a role.

lol how's ChatGPT supposed to know this? Here is the real data for Jane Street 2025 summer interns in the NYC office, all roles included. This is the first-hand information from DC who is doing intern there now.
College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
Caltech 5
UChicago 5
Cornell 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

Was missing a few colleges. Here is an updated list.

College Count
MIT 36
CMU 16
UC Berkeley 15
UT Austin 13
Stanford 12
UPenn 12
Princeton 9
Yale 8
Duke 7
Harvard 7
UIUC 6
Caltech 5
Uchicago 5
Cornell 5
Columbia 5
brown 4
Dartmouth 3
Gatech 3
UVA 3
NYU 2
Vanderbilt 2

The same usual suspects

UT Austin, Dartmouth, UVA, NYU, Brown stand out.

UT Austin mostly because of their Turing program.

Meh. Better regarded schools above it.

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

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Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

Most people would reach a complete halt in their career going into quant. Most people are not intelligent or skilled enough to lead a meaningful career in quant finance.

Aren’t quants sort of building the tools that will eventually replace half to 2/3rds of them? It seems like to be the top of your game, you’re actually going to be building tools that get closer and closer to making you obsolete.

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Seriously, how did we get on the narrow subject of quant finance on this thread? With regard to engineering schools, how about just wanting to be a great engineer that actually helps create things that make the world a better place?

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, how did we get on the narrow subject of quant finance on this thread? With regard to engineering schools, how about just wanting to be a great engineer that actually helps create things that make the world a better place?

No one is preventing you from becoming an engineer. And not those contribution to society craps again. Keep it to yourself please.

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Anonymous wrote:So in summary, go to an Ivie or a Top Public specific for Engineering to land the first best job out kid college. Got it.

Unless you don’t want to be a quant? This thread took a weird turn where apparently that’s the only “top” job available.

Depending on what you mean by top. Most students would kill to swap into Jane Street from MBB and Goldman Sachs. It’s like comparing Harvard and Boston College. Both are great choices, but if you’re a double admit, which one would you choose?

Plenty would choose MBB or Goldman. These are all different roles. They are not interchangeable for most people, except those lacking in direction.

That’s false. JS NGs are paid at the similar level to Goldman’s MDs (more junior ones). Money is not the only factor but it can change things. It’s actually a consensus on Wall Street that sell side is on the lower end of the food chain relative to buy side.

It’s not false at all. Quant trading is not the same as working on deals which is not the same as consulting which is not the same as being in portfolio management at a long-only asset manager which is not the same as being a commodity trader which is not the same as being a macro hedge fund analyst which is not…I could go on and on.

People choose different things based on their interests, skills, and experience, and they can’t just switch from one to the other. There is a reason the top 5 on the list above for Jane Street is MIT, CMU, Cal, UTA, Stanford. You think that’s the top 5 at Goldman or McKinsey? No. Different skillsets. Different backgrounds. Plenty of people would be happy to be somewhere other than Jane Street and more successful at it too, rather than doing something that isn’t a good fit for them.

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Summary of this thread: for certain highly selective internships in research and finance, the school does matter, and the same 15-20 schools are dominant.

For MOST internships it likely matters a lot less.

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I graduated from San Jose State University in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) with a degree in business. I worked at Pebble Beach Country Club from 2008 to 2010 while looking for a professional job. There, I met an EVP of a well-known private equity firm, and he gave me my first start. Fifteen years later, I am now a VP there, and I have many people working for me who graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc... One thing that they do not have is "street smart". I learned "street smart" during my time at Pebble Beach CC. FWIW, I make five times more than they do. This is from a guy who attended an average public university.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is a junior at UMD at the business school. Got a paid internship this summer, including housing. Other interns at this company attend, Georgia Tech, UVA, Ohio State, Va Tech, among others. No matter what dcum tells you, it comes down to what you do once you are in college. All interns are really bright. No not all hired on the business side. Some CS students are there too. Hope this helps some panicked parents..

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated from San Jose State University in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) with a degree in business. I worked at Pebble Beach Country Club from 2008 to 2010 while looking for a professional job. There, I met an EVP of a well-known private equity firm, and he gave me my first start. Fifteen years later, I am now a VP there, and I have many people working for me who graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc... One thing that they do not have is "street smart". I learned "street smart" during my time at Pebble Beach CC. FWIW, I make five times more than they do. This is from a guy who attended an average public university.

I love this!

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated from San Jose State University in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) with a degree in business. I worked at Pebble Beach Country Club from 2008 to 2010 while looking for a professional job. There, I met an EVP of a well-known private equity firm, and he gave me my first start. Fifteen years later, I am now a VP there, and I have many people working for me who graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc... One thing that they do not have is "street smart". I learned "street smart" during my time at Pebble Beach CC. FWIW, I make five times more than they do. This is from a guy who attended an average public university.

You learned street smarts on the rough and tumble streets of Pebble Beach?

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated from San Jose State University in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) with a degree in business. I worked at Pebble Beach Country Club from 2008 to 2010 while looking for a professional job. There, I met an EVP of a well-known private equity firm, and he gave me my first start. Fifteen years later, I am now a VP there, and I have many people working for me who graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc... One thing that they do not have is "street smart". I learned "street smart" during my time at Pebble Beach CC. FWIW, I make five times more than they do. This is from a guy who attended an average public university.

You sound like a condescending a-hole. And your story sounds so fake.

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What percentage of San Jose State graduates are able to duplicate your career path?

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Of course the college name matters. Ask yourself a simple question: do you want the name MIT on your resume or San Jose state? If it truly doesn’t matter then we should all omit the school names from our resumes.

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated from San Jose State University in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) with a degree in business. I worked at Pebble Beach Country Club from 2008 to 2010 while looking for a professional job. There, I met an EVP of a well-known private equity firm, and he gave me my first start. Fifteen years later, I am now a VP there, and I have many people working for me who graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc... One thing that they do not have is "street smart". I learned "street smart" during my time at Pebble Beach CC. FWIW, I make five times more than they do. This is from a guy who attended an average public university.

You learned street smarts on the rough and tumble streets of Pebble Beach?

hahaha