Top Feeders to Tech and Wall Street

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia is the winner for Wall Street by a long shot. They only have about 2,000 grads per year.
Cornell is twice the size.

Really? There at least a dozen schools including three NESCAC LACs which place considerably better than Columbia on a per capita basis.

Data please.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

I hope you don't beileve this. NYU is not that low

It also says Columbia has lower placement than Vanderbilt? College transitions hasn't been a good data source for a while.

I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into.

Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet.

Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are:

Chicago
Dartmouth
Princeton
Georgetown
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Duke
Penn
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Brown
Columbia
SMU
Cornell
Rice
Northwestern
Boston College
Stanford

So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today.

Gtown is always a strong feeder so it doesn't surprise me.

Is middlebury still good today? Ranked super high.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia is the winner for Wall Street by a long shot. They only have about 2,000 grads per year.
Cornell is twice the size.

Really? There at least a dozen schools including three NESCAC LACs which place considerably better than Columbia on a per capita basis.

Data please.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

I hope you don't beileve this. NYU is not that low

It also says Columbia has lower placement than Vanderbilt? College transitions hasn't been a good data source for a while.

I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into.

Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet.

Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are:

Chicago
Dartmouth
Princeton
Georgetown
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Duke
Penn
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Brown
Columbia
SMU
Cornell
Rice
Northwestern
Boston College
Stanford

So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today.

The list above is incorrect !!!

LOL at someone posting that Vandy is a bigger feeder to Wall Street than is Columbia ! What are you smokin'?

The updated 2025 list shows these schools as the leaders when adjusted for enrollment:

1) Columbia
2) Yale
3) Dartmouth
4) Princeton
5) Georgetown
6) Harvard
7) U Chicago
8) Claremont McKenna
9) Duke
10) Amherst College
11) Williams College
12) Middlebury College
13) U Penn
14) Cornell
15) Northwestern University

16) Notre Dame
17) Boston College
18) Brown
19) Vanderbilt
20) Stanford
21) NYU
22) Babson
23) Fordham
24) Wash & Lee
25) Bentley U.
26) Villanova
27) Hamilton
28) U Richmond
29) Bowdoin
30) CUNY Baruch

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia is the winner for Wall Street by a long shot. They only have about 2,000 grads per year.
Cornell is twice the size.

Really? There at least a dozen schools including three NESCAC LACs which place considerably better than Columbia on a per capita basis.

Data please.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

I hope you don't beileve this. NYU is not that low

It also says Columbia has lower placement than Vanderbilt? College transitions hasn't been a good data source for a while.

I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into.

Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet.

Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are:

Chicago
Dartmouth
Princeton
Georgetown
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Duke
Penn
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Brown
Columbia
SMU
Cornell
Rice
Northwestern
Boston College
Stanford

So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today.

The list above is incorrect !!!

LOL at someone posting that Vandy is a bigger feeder to Wall Street than is Columbia ! What are you smokin'?

The updated 2025 list shows these schools as the leaders when adjusted for enrollment:

1) Columbia
2) Yale
3) Dartmouth
4) Princeton
5) Georgetown
6) Harvard
7) U Chicago
8) Claremont McKenna
9) Duke
10) Amherst College
11) Williams College
12) Middlebury College
13) U Penn
14) Cornell
15) Northwestern University

16) Notre Dame
17) Boston College
18) Brown
19) Vanderbilt
20) Stanford
21) NYU
22) Babson
23) Fordham
24) Wash & Lee
25) Bentley U.
26) Villanova
27) Hamilton
28) U Richmond
29) Bowdoin
30) CUNY Baruch

Again, how do you define "Wall Street." Lots of CUNY alums in back office jobs (which are perfectly fine jobs). Not many of them starting in prime roles (though I do know some).

Garbage in, garbage out. Anyone making decisions based on this list, USN&WR, or something similar is completely uninformed and wasting their time.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia is the winner for Wall Street by a long shot. They only have about 2,000 grads per year.
Cornell is twice the size.

Really? There at least a dozen schools including three NESCAC LACs which place considerably better than Columbia on a per capita basis.

Data please.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

I hope you don't beileve this. NYU is not that low

It also says Columbia has lower placement than Vanderbilt? College transitions hasn't been a good data source for a while.

I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into.

Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet.

Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are:

Chicago
Dartmouth
Princeton
Georgetown
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Duke
Penn
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Brown
Columbia
SMU
Cornell
Rice
Northwestern
Boston College
Stanford

So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today.

The list above is incorrect !!!

LOL at someone posting that Vandy is a bigger feeder to Wall Street than is Columbia ! What are you smokin'?

The updated 2025 list shows these schools as the leaders when adjusted for enrollment:

1) Columbia
2) Yale
3) Dartmouth
4) Princeton
5) Georgetown
6) Harvard
7) U Chicago
8) Claremont McKenna
9) Duke
10) Amherst College
11) Williams College
12) Middlebury College
13) U Penn
14) Cornell
15) Northwestern University

16) Notre Dame
17) Boston College
18) Brown
19) Vanderbilt
20) Stanford
21) NYU
22) Babson
23) Fordham
24) Wash & Lee
25) Bentley U.
26) Villanova
27) Hamilton
28) U Richmond
29) Bowdoin
30) CUNY Baruch

Again, how do you define "Wall Street." Lots of CUNY alums in back office jobs (which are perfectly fine jobs). Not many of them starting in prime roles (though I do know some).

Garbage in, garbage out. Anyone making decisions based on this list, USN&WR, or something similar is completely uninformed and wasting their time.

Sure, we believe you, an anonymous poster on the internet over vetted information published worldwide.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia is the winner for Wall Street by a long shot. They only have about 2,000 grads per year.
Cornell is twice the size.

Really? There at least a dozen schools including three NESCAC LACs which place considerably better than Columbia on a per capita basis.

Data please.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-colleges-for-investment-banking-careers/

I hope you don't beileve this. NYU is not that low

It also says Columbia has lower placement than Vanderbilt? College transitions hasn't been a good data source for a while.

I don’t see why Vanderbilt wouldn’t. It has a great Econ/HOD department, and Columbia has a lot of other professional careers it feeds better into.

Then you clearly don't work in finance, that's the furthest thing from true. Columbia is a 10 min walk from wallstreet.

Well, when adjusted for the size of the school, the biggest feeders to IB are:

Chicago
Dartmouth
Princeton
Georgetown
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Middlebury
Williams
Duke
Penn
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Brown
Columbia
SMU
Cornell
Rice
Northwestern
Boston College
Stanford

So yes, Vanderbilt is a bigger feeder than Columbia. Which makes sense. I don't think most students today choose Columbia because they want to go into investment banking. I'm a little surprised by how high Rice is and how low Stanford is - I didn't think anyone at Rice was interested in IB and I would have expected more from Stanford. But I am not at all surprised that SMU ranks so high today.

The list above is incorrect !!!

LOL at someone posting that Vandy is a bigger feeder to Wall Street than is Columbia ! What are you smokin'?

The updated 2025 list shows these schools as the leaders when adjusted for enrollment:

1) Columbia
2) Yale
3) Dartmouth
4) Princeton
5) Georgetown
6) Harvard
7) U Chicago
8) Claremont McKenna
9) Duke
10) Amherst College
11) Williams College
12) Middlebury College
13) U Penn
14) Cornell
15) Northwestern University

16) Notre Dame
17) Boston College
18) Brown
19) Vanderbilt
20) Stanford
21) NYU
22) Babson
23) Fordham
24) Wash & Lee
25) Bentley U.
26) Villanova
27) Hamilton
28) U Richmond
29) Bowdoin
30) CUNY Baruch

Again, how do you define "Wall Street." Lots of CUNY alums in back office jobs (which are perfectly fine jobs). Not many of them starting in prime roles (though I do know some).

Garbage in, garbage out. Anyone making decisions based on this list, USN&WR, or something similar is completely uninformed and wasting their time.

Sure, we believe you, an anonymous poster on the internet over vetted information published worldwide.

You think USN&WR is vetted? Or this random list is "vetted?" Do you think some great genius is sitting there agonizing over 26 vs. 27? USN&WR provides some highly directional guidance. That's all. #2 is probably "better" than #102. Their criteria is highly questionable and constantly changing because having the rankings stay the same doesn't draw clicks.

I don't have the nerve to claim to be an expert on this. And neither should they.

Sounds like you are getting what you deserve then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech:

1. Berkeley, 1041 employed (Google, Amazon, Facebook)
2. Univ. of Illinois, 598 employed (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
3. UMich, 568 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
4. Carnegie, 530 employed (google, Microsoft, Facebook)
5. UWash, 511 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)


Top Feeders to Wall Street and investment banking.

1. NYU, 386 employed (morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, citi)
2. UMich, 296 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)
3. Cornell, 279 employed (J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
4. Columbia, 259 empliyed (Jo Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley)
5. Berkeley, 233 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)

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

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they mean Wall Street the physical location vs Wall Street as a euphemism for finance/banking/PE.

The Claremont kids are headed to LA and SF more than NYC working in those industries.

This is just a wrong assumption. More CMC students in the past 3 years went to NYC than LA: https://www.cmc.edu/institutional-research/factbook/outcomes-6months

A lot of 5C students are from New York/Boston and intend to go back home.

Well there are more headed to LA plus San Francisco than NYC based on your chart…which is literally what I wrote (and NYC exceeded LA by one kid).

Are you…intellectually disabled? Of course there are, they’re two major cities. There’s more grads going to LA and Dallas than New York. So basically you wasted my time, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Tech:

1. Berkeley, 1041 employed (Google, Amazon, Facebook)
2. Univ. of Illinois, 598 employed (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
3. UMich, 568 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
4. Carnegie, 530 employed (google, Microsoft, Facebook)
5. UWash, 511 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)


Top Feeders to Wall Street and investment banking.

1. NYU, 386 employed (morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, citi)
2. UMich, 296 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)
3. Cornell, 279 employed (J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
4. Columbia, 259 empliyed (Jo Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley)
5. Berkeley, 233 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)

What is the source here?

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech (Full List Top 10)

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Anonymous wrote:Tech:

1. Berkeley, 1041 employed (Google, Amazon, Facebook)
2. Univ. of Illinois, 598 employed (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
3. UMich, 568 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
4. Carnegie, 530 employed (google, Microsoft, Facebook)
5. UWash, 511 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)


Top Feeders to Wall Street and investment banking.

1. NYU, 386 employed (morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, citi)
2. UMich, 296 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)
3. Cornell, 279 employed (J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
4. Columbia, 259 empliyed (Jo Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley)
5. Berkeley, 233 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)

What is the source here?

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech (Full List Top 10)

UMD 17. Nice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moral of the story? The ivies are overrated.

Look at the jobs and starting salaries. An IB analyst in FIG and someone in HR have very different career trajectories.

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certainly outliers, but the prestige job from T20s and Williams/Swarthmore are from a small pool of jobs: Bulge bracket IB analysts, MBB associates, or FAANG Associate Product Manager or Associate Solution Engineer. Everything else is a tier down

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Anonymous wrote:Moral of the story? The ivies are overrated.

Look at the jobs and starting salaries. An IB analyst in FIG and someone in HR have very different career trajectories.

Yup. I'm surprised Stevens didn't make this list. It puts lots of kids into IT project management type jobs on Wall Street. Which are perfectly fine job. But they are not the career path to be a rain maker pulling down millions. Though Stevens occasionally gets kids on that path as well. Hidden gem. On a per capita basis they would likely be high on the list. But I have no idea what the methodology for this ridiculous list even is.

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completely agree about Stevens being a hidden gem - big investment in quant finance and then placement is ridiculous- every business major lands six figure job. Punches well above weight. Also putting kids into entry product or pre-sales tech roles at Google and Salesforce - these are highly coveted roles for new grads

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Anonymous wrote:Tech:

1. Berkeley, 1041 employed (Google, Amazon, Facebook)
2. Univ. of Illinois, 598 employed (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
3. UMich, 568 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
4. Carnegie, 530 employed (google, Microsoft, Facebook)
5. UWash, 511 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)


Top Feeders to Wall Street and investment banking.

1. NYU, 386 employed (morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, citi)
2. UMich, 296 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)
3. Cornell, 279 employed (J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
4. Columbia, 259 empliyed (Jo Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley)
5. Berkeley, 233 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)

What is the source here?

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech (Full List Top 10)

That is just for tech, what about IB/finance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech:

1. Berkeley, 1041 employed (Google, Amazon, Facebook)
2. Univ. of Illinois, 598 employed (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
3. UMich, 568 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
4. Carnegie, 530 employed (google, Microsoft, Facebook)
5. UWash, 511 employed (Microsoft, Amazon, Google)


Top Feeders to Wall Street and investment banking.

1. NYU, 386 employed (morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, citi)
2. UMich, 296 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)
3. Cornell, 279 employed (J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
4. Columbia, 259 empliyed (Jo Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley)
5. Berkeley, 233 employed (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs)

So basically big schools graduating a large number of students other than NYU & Columbia with close ties to and located in Wallstreet's backyard and graduating students who are already interning at Wallstreet.