SLAC then to Wall Street?
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The top 50 universities for getting a front office investment banking job 1 3 London School of Economics 35.6% 2.5% 2 1 Columbia University 36.2% 1.40% 3 2 University of Pennsylvania 35.30% 0.9% 4 6 New York University 33.9% 1.6% 5 4 University College London 33.2% 1% 6 8 Imperial College London 33.2% 0.9% 7 9 University of Chicago 33.4% 0.70% 8 22 University of Oxford 33.30% 0.70% 9 11 University of California, Berkeley 33.30% 0.4% 10 7 Carnegie Mellon University 33.1% 0.30% 11 13 Yale University 32.6% 0.30% 12 17 Dartmouth College 32.80% 0.1% 13 12 Cornell University 32.2% 0.5% 14 19 Harvard University 32.1% 0.5% 15 5 Stanford University 31.6% 0.60% 16 10 Princeton University 31.40% 0.60% 17 24 MIT 31.20% 0.8% 18 38 University of Bristol 31.5% 0.4% 19 15 Northwestern University 31.5% 0.30% 20 16 Tsinghua University 31.40% 0.4% 21 18 University of Michigan 30.8% 0.60% 22 43 University of Warwick 30.5% 0.8% 23 14 Johns Hopkins University 30.6% 0.30% 24 28 Duke University 30.5% 0.30% 25 26 Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 30.6% 0.1% http://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/199099/top-50-universities-getting-front-office-investment-banking-job/ |
Anonymous
Wall Street? I thought all the gunner kiddos dream of doing private equity or venture capital in LA/SF these days? |
Anonymous
And if you knew anything about the career path you would know you interview for IB in college and then for PE after a year in IB. |
Anonymous
I'm 20 years out from one of these schools, but in my time lots of Wall Street firms recruited on campus - I would say that Wall Street and/or big accounting firms were probably the most common career path (or law school). |
Anonymous
| But SLACs don't usually offer finance or business majors, do they? |
Anonymous
No. But they produce critical thinkers who analyze and write well. I'd take one of those over a business major any day of the week. |
Anonymous
So a business major can't think critically or analyze and write well? Ok. |
Anonymous
I always dreaded interviewing business majors because the jobs I was hiring for required a lot of writing. Just not something they are strong in. On the non quant side of IB, they love classics majors. |
Anonymous
| I knew a guy who did this from Washington and Lee. Not sure if he had connections or not. |
Anonymous
| Plenty of my Davidson friends are now on wall Street fwiw |
Anonymous
As far as I can tell, Trinity is where you go when you weren't a very good student at a seriously preppy private school. Trinity probably has to be good at finance because that is going to be the choice of such students. They are a fairly well=connected bunch. |
Anonymous
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/01/28/business-is-the-most-popular-college-major-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-a-good-choice/?utm_term=.c16d27afdf57 "Students majoring in business spend less time studying than anyone else on campus, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement. They also spend less time reading and writing than other majors. One analysis of 10 public four-year universities in Texas found that of the 40 courses needed for a business degree, only one required a writing assignment of 20 or more pages, and only three required assignments of at least 10 pages. What’s more, the results of national standardized tests, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus, given to freshmen and seniors, found that students who major in business made significantly fewer gains in college in critical thinking, writing and communication, and analytical reasoning than those who studied mathematics, science, and engineering, as well as the traditional liberal arts (philosophy, history, and literature)." |
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This is the number of alums working at Goldman Sachs. Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, and Colgate are the clear standouts. All NESCAC members except Colgate, which is more pre-professional than most of the Ivies. Colleges not on the Northeast don't perform so well, so it may be of import to pick a SLAC there if doing so at all.
Amherst - 52 Bates - 8 Bowdoin - 33 Carleton - 10 Colby - 24 Colgate - 56 Davidson - 8 Hamilton - 33 Haverford - 14 Middlebury - 59 Pomona - 13 Swarthmore - 21 Vassar - 18 Wellesley - 34 Wesleyan - 25 Williams - 59 |
Anonymous
| sorry quick correction- more pre-professional than most of the SLACs and comparable to an Ivy in that regard (Colgate) |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing. What's the source of this info.? |