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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jane Street is not accepting interns from anywhere else but HYPMS (possibly Duke, Penn and a few others)[/quote]

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

🧭 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.

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This reddit poster seemed to have taken an even deeper dive on this issue.  Interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/zhvqvn/universities_quant_feeders/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf[/quote]

Yeah. This seems to more of an accurate representation.  Several employers. [/quote]

This as well

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering[/quote]

This list, adjusted by Enrollment(tho they should have used Engineering/CS enrollment, not total) closely parallels our main recruiting targets with many ivies plus a few top publics in Eng.  
It also overlaps with the Jane street list from the current intern that has MIT ivies and top publics, though JS is quant and we are tech consulting. Targeting can seem unfair but it is the most efficient way to get top talent. We have experience with the rigor of these schools. That being said there are many internships outside the top companies. Small companies can sometimes be better internship experiences. No panic needed if you are not at a school on all the lists. And realize that the competition within those schools is often fierce[/quote]

This is very specific to STEM majors and converting them (mostly) corporate jobs.  A very specific type of school is the stepping stone for this path.  Most of these grads will need to pursue a masters or higher immediately or eventually.

Many schools are very good for pre-med, pre-law, business school admissions, and public administration/public service (which I know gets trashed on this board, but still has competitive graduate programs).

Your undergrad matters less 5 years out and even less if you obtain a graduate degree.  Graduate programs have a lot more nuance on recruitment than HR departments and the DCUM thought leaders . 
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