Any Investment Banking or Private Equity professionals?
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Anonymous
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Do you agree with this Tier listing for IB/PE placement
Tier 1 (Ultra-Targets) (++++) Harvard • UPenn (Wharton) • Stanford • MIT Tier 1.5 (Top Targets) (+++) • UPenn (non-Wharton) • Columbia • University of Chicago (UChicago) • Duke • Dartmouth • Yale • Princeton Tier 2 (High Targets) (++) • Brown • Northwestern • Cornell • NYU (Stern) • UMich(Ross) • Georgetown (McDonough) Tier 2.5 (Semi-Targets) (+) • UVA (McIntire) • Amherst • UC Berkeley (Haas) • University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) • Emory (Goizueta) • USC (Marshall) • UT Austin (McCombs) Tier 3 (Semi-Targets) • Johns Hopkins • Northeastern • Vanderbilt • Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) • UCLA Tier 4 (Semi-Targets) • UNC (Kenan-Flagler) • CMU (Tepper) • Boston College (Carroll) • Rice • Indiana University (Kelley IB Workshop only) • Brigham Young (Goldman Sachs pipeline) Tier 5 (Lower Semi-Targets) • Williams College • Middlebury College • Claremont McKenna College • Texas A&M University • Penn State • University of Florida (Evercore pipeline) • University of Georgia Tier 6 (Non-Targets but Recognizable) • Rutgers • Fordham • University of Wisconsin-Madison • Villanova • Southern Methodist University (SMU) • University of Washington (Seattle) https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/no-bs-data-backed-target-colleges-for-ibpe |
Anonymous
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I’d collapse 2.5 and 3.0 colleges into one group. There is equal and visible recruitment at all of them.
Add Pitt to group 4 or 5 |
Anonymous
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If you want to be in New York after college, move Cornell up a notch.
The IB feeder system at Cornell is not limited to Dyson and MUCH more accessible. |
Anonymous
| OH NO! Where is Bucknell. The poster who always says it's the best school to land a job on THE STREET. LOL |
Anonymous
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Stanford is too high just because kids aren’t as interested in PE/banking vs VC and tech/startups.
Other schools are probably correct if you want to go to NYC, but tiers are different if you want to work in banking/PE for Atlanta-based companies or Dallas or Houston-based, etc. |
Anonymous
| Collapse 3 and 4. Move UTA and USC to 3. Add Gatech to 6. |
Anonymous
Agree on Stanford. I know many kids who struggle to get those PE and IB jobs tbh. Their career services in this space actually sucks. Ask around - the more you know. |
Anonymous
| Are you sure you want to build this onramp to Adderall and anxiety? Speaking as a dual PE family, I would not onramp my kid into this. You know who makes a lot of money? People who build great companies (owners or high level execs) who exit to PE or public markets every 2-3 years but still have a life. |
Anonymous
Equities in Dallas! |
Anonymous
| Does PE even hire new college grads? |
Anonymous
| +1 on Cornell. Good career services, coaching and mentoring in this space for entire school, not limited like Wharton. |
Anonymous
| I know I'm alone on this board with this sentiment, but yes, BYU is making the list. It is so underrated. Several friends ended up in IB and PE after undergrad, not just at Goldman. Several friends ended up in excellent, big law jobs out of law school (in NY, LA, DC, and Houston) and paid off their minimal student loans within months. |
Anonymous
| +1 on other’s’ suggestions to collapse the middle but I would probably even collapse 2.5 to 4. When you get to these schools it really just depends on each firm, where it has recruited and hired from in the past, where kids want to end up after school, etc. And some are dubious anyway (like Northeastern over BC or Kelley workshop), just put them all in one group. |
Anonymous
The one sensible poster on this thread. Keep in mind, though, many of these parents have raised compliant overachievers who do not have the resilience or creative thought to start a business. |
Anonymous
| In this economy, I would be weary paying full sticker all the schools below Emory.... If IB is truly what you want. |