Saturday, 14 February 2015

The top 50 universities for getting a front office investment banking job

Want to work in a front office job in investment banking? You should have gone to the London School of Economics. Share on twitter Failing that, banks would dearly like to hear from Columbia University graduates. Or those from Oxbridge, French grande écoles or top London universities like University College London (UCL) or Imperial College. The Ivy League is also, of course, a pretty good bet.
Given the amount of time bulge bracket investment banks spend buzzing around the campuses of these colleges, these might seem pretty obvious assertions. However, analysis of the 272,000 resumes uploaded on to eFinancialCareers over the past 12 months adds some objective weight to the common assumptions about banks’ favourite schools.
We analysed resumes on our database from individuals who went to the top universities in the financial markets where we have most coverage. This means the UK, U.S., Asia-Pacific markets and a number of Continental European countries – but mostly France and Germany. We then cross-referenced this against the proportion of people from individual universities working in front office positions – this means M&A, capital markets and a number of markets functions including equities, research and trading. The result is the top 50 ranking below.

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