Semi-target school#35 of 100
Is Babson College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Babson College is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #35 of the 100 schools we measure: 181 alumni list investment banking analyst titles alongside the 18 top banks from classes of roughly 2015 onward, weighted for school size, and its wider banking alumni network holds 1,102 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #35 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 181 81% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 80 44% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,102 #39 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 400.4 #11 per capita
- US-based
- 794 72%
Schools ranked 16 through 35 place real numbers into top banks — at least 152 analysts each in this data — but the per-school pipeline runs thinner. Alumni will answer your emails, and the difference between getting an interview and getting skipped comes down to outreach volume. Start networking earlier than your target-school peers and treat every alumni conversation as a referral opportunity.
What the numbers say
Babson produces 400.4 investment banking profiles per 1,000 undergraduates, more than four times the 97.8 median and good for #11 on density. That figure comes from 1,102 profiles set against only 2,752 undergraduates. Raw count tells the opposite story at #39 by network size, and the headline settles at #35, anchored on the top-bank analyst count rather than on either broad measure.
The top-bank count is the weak leg: 181 analysts and a rank of #45, ten places below the headline #35, with the per-student side of the blend making up the difference. Firm counts stay correspondingly small, topping out at J.P. Morgan's 29 and Goldman Sachs's 27, though 44 percent of the group sits at the elite five. Buyside mix is heavy, at 60 private equity and 20 venture capital profiles per 100 IB profiles, while only 72 percent of the network is in the US.
A 2,752-undergraduate denominator makes the density figure jumpy, since a few dozen profiles either way move it far more than they would at a large university, and #11 remains a size index rather than a placement rate. The verdict is a small network that punches well above its headcount but thins out sharply at the largest banks.
Across finance
Babson College’s rank in each vertical we count, by the same title-phrase method. Bars show its count as a share of that ranking’s #1 school. The last column shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
Where its analysts go
Babson College analysts at each of the top banks we measured — graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles. Banks with published feeder pages link through.
Nearby in the ranking
How we counted
Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. The headline rank is anchored on the strict measure: profiles that list Babson Collegein their education, a job title containing “investment banking analyst”, one of 18 named top banks as an employer, and a graduation year of 2013 or later — the analyst classes of roughly 2015 onward, deduplicated across banks. Those conditions hold on the profile rather than on a single job, so the title and the bank are usually but not provably the same role. The rank weights that count at two-thirds and the same count per 1,000 undergraduates at one-third, so school size is priced in. The elite-five figure counts analysts at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Data pulled 2026-08-25.
The alumni-network figure is broader: everyone who has held a title containing “investment banking” at any firm worldwide, across all years, including graduate alumni. It reads as the size of the school’s banking network rather than a single era’s placement. Of those, 794 (72%) are currently based in the United States and 308 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 2,752 total undergraduates reported for fall 2023 in the NCES IPEDS Fall Enrollment dataset — a school-size comparison, not a placement rate for a graduating class.
