Wallstreet Feeder Schools (Per Capita)

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Anonymous wrote:CMC and Washington are Lee is a bit surprising. Does DC even know what W&L is?

And UVA is dead last?

This is a per Capita list so it controls for school population size. Notice how no other public schools made the list.

UVA is DFL. No excuses.

But the other public didn't make the list at all. UVA is the best public school for Wallstreet placement. That's shocking when Umich, UCLA, UCB exist.

For state universities, Berkeley, Michigan, and Texas ALL SEND MORE grads to Wall Street than UVA. And UVA is a couple thousand miles closer. These schools also send big time to Big Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the scope of Wall Street employment? Does the list include I-banking only or does it include BS commercial banking jobs or worse yet back office and admin? I would assume the latter because that’s the only possible explanation for schools like SMU, UVA and W&L being on this list.

It says entry level IB analyst roles on the website. These roles pay well over 100k now. SMU, W&L, UVA are very good conservative (White) good ol boy schools with high test scores. I wouldn't expect anything different from them.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to HYPSM?

Right lol. But I think Stanford and MIT students focus mainly on tech.

More of a knock against Yale and Princeton. We all know that Stanford and MIT dominate tech, so we have an impression that HYP would be the top Wall Street feeders. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Stanford and MIT in Silicon Valley are # 7 and 17 respectively. They don’t do that well in their own backyard.

Sorry, the link is here:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech

You saw the overall list, scroll down to see the per Capita list, there Stanford and MIT are 2nd and 6th respectively.

Top Feeder Rankings TECH (adjusted for undergraduate enrollment)
1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Stanford University
3 California Institute of Technology
4 Harvey Mudd College
5 Columbia University
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 Georgia Institute of Technology
8 University of Southern California
9 Rice University
10 Duke University

What happened to HYP? Where are all those HYP grads going to if their alma maters are not top feeders to tech or Wall Street?

All ivies are liberal arts schools. For liberal arts, they are very well represented. If they are not in Silicon Valley or Wall Street, they’ll do fine. Not all ivy grads chase money.

You're making too many excuses. The way ivy's are worshipped on this site, one would think they would do better. But Princeton is 8th and Cornell and barely beat Notre Dame. It says a lot. DC is delusional.

Well, how did non-ivy UVA do?

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This list also does not favor schools that have sizable schools or departments for arts, music, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:CMC and Washington are Lee is a bit surprising. Does DC even know what W&L is?

And UVA is dead last?

This is a per Capita list so it controls for school population size. Notice how no other public schools made the list.

UVA is DFL. No excuses.

But the other public didn't make the list at all. UVA is the best public school for Wallstreet placement. That's shocking when Umich, UCLA, UCB exist.

For state universities, Berkeley, Michigan, and Texas ALL SEND MORE grads to Wall Street than UVA. And UVA is a couple thousand miles closer. These schools also send big time to Big Tech.

More overall and a higher percentage is a different thing. Schools like UT benefit from being gigantic. And most males at those schools are aiming for IB or FAANG so they have a ton of applications out of those schools. If you want you child to make big bucks as an analyst they have a better chance at UVA or one of the privates listed.

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God I’d be so disappointed if my kids worked on Wall Street.

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Anonymous wrote:*cough*lacrosse*cough* at many of these schools


And other non Olympic sports at these particular schools

Yes, Wall Street loves the sports bros—they have a team spirit and willingness to sacrifice for the cause that translates well to business.

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Anonymous wrote:CMC and Washington are Lee is a bit surprising. Does DC even know what W&L is?

And UVA is dead last?

This is a per Capita list so it controls for school population size. Notice how no other public schools made the list.

UVA is DFL. No excuses.

But the other public didn't make the list at all. UVA is the best public school for Wallstreet placement. That's shocking when Umich, UCLA, UCB exist.

For state universities, Berkeley, Michigan, and Texas ALL SEND MORE grads to Wall Street than UVA. And UVA is a couple thousand miles closer. These schools also send big time to Big Tech.

More overall and a higher percentage is a different thing. Schools like UT benefit from being gigantic. And most males at those schools are aiming for IB or FAANG so they have a ton of applications out of those schools. If you want you child to make big bucks as an analyst they have a better chance at UVA or one of the privates listed.

UT has excellent programs in business, engineering, and computer science

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Anonymous wrote:What is Claremont McKenna College? Never heard of. Is it a good school?

A liberal arts school in California similar to Pomona. It's ranked 8th on US news.

It’s not just similar to Pomona. Both are part of the Claremont Consortium of schools, along with Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps. Kids at these colleges can cross register and each school has its own flavor/focus. https://www.claremont.edu/

It’s very well regarded and has been for many years. It’s a liberal arts school but had a slightly more preprofessional bent and it is known for being more conservative (or politically balanced, depending on how you look at it) than most schools.

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There's a plethora of tier lists on this site, but most seem based on opinion. College Transitions made a ranking based on LinkedIn data and is the definitive and most accurate Wallstreet feeder list. Any Surprises?


Top Feeder Rankings (adjusted for undergraduate enrollment)

1 University of Pennsylvania

2 Columbia University

3 Harvard University

4 University of Chicago

5 Yale University

6 Georgetown University

7 Dartmouth College

8 Princeton University

9 Duke University

10 Williams College

11 Claremont McKenna College

12 Middlebury College

13 Amherst College

14 Brown University

15 Washington and Lee University

16 Cornell University

17 University of Notre Dame

18 Stanford University

19 Boston College

20 Vanderbilt University

21 Emory University

22 Bowdoin College

23 New York University

24 Colgate University

25 Southern Methodist University

26 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

27 Northwestern University

28 Wellesley College

29 Swarthmore College

30 University of Virginia

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking

Penn has Wharton. Remove Wharton the Penn ranking would drop a few notches for sure.

Otherwise it's a self-fulfilling list. Yes, these are the elite colleges, and yes, they send many grads to Wall Street/finance. For all the sneers, it's a decent route to making a good income and having a comfortable life.

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As if a Wall Street job was something worth aspiring to.

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What a joke. Using Wall Street to rank colleges? If USNWR published a ranking that placed Stanford at 18 and MIT at 26, they would lose all credibility. Thanks for playing, kids.

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Anonymous wrote:What a joke. Using Wall Street to rank colleges? If USNWR published a ranking that placed Stanford at 18 and MIT at 26, they would lose all credibility. Thanks for playing, kids.

This is based on real data not the insecurities of HYPSM grads.

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Anonymous wrote:As if a Wall Street job was something worth aspiring to.

Well genius, it obviously is if so many bright young minds from top colleges seek employment at i-banks. Now you can go back to gnawing on your government cheese and wait for your next handout.

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There's a plethora of tier lists on this site, but most seem based on opinion. College Transitions made a ranking based on LinkedIn data and is the definitive and most accurate Wallstreet feeder list. Any Surprises?


Top Feeder Rankings (adjusted for undergraduate enrollment)

1 University of Pennsylvania

2 Columbia University

3 Harvard University

4 University of Chicago

5 Yale University

6 Georgetown University

7 Dartmouth College

8 Princeton University

9 Duke University

10 Williams College

11 Claremont McKenna College

12 Middlebury College

13 Amherst College

14 Brown University

15 Washington and Lee University

16 Cornell University

17 University of Notre Dame

18 Stanford University

19 Boston College

20 Vanderbilt University

21 Emory University

22 Bowdoin College

23 New York University

24 Colgate University

25 Southern Methodist University

26 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

27 Northwestern University

28 Wellesley College

29 Swarthmore College

30 University of Virginia

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking

Penn has Wharton. Remove Wharton the Penn ranking would drop a few notches for sure.

Otherwise it's a self-fulfilling list. Yes, these are the elite colleges, and yes, they send many grads to Wall Street/finance. For all the sneers, it's a decent route to making a good income and having a comfortable life.

Keep in mind the numbers are pretty small. UVA has 132 employed and that is probably from several years of graduates, so you are talking about perhaps 1% of graduates. It is probably a more significant number specifically for McIntire graduates.