Semi-target school#34 of 100
Is Baruch College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Baruch College is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #34 of the 100 schools we measure: 289 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 1,695 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #34 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 289 80% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 130 45% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,695 #27 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 105.4 #48 per capita
- US-based
- 1,517 89%
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
The buyside side of Baruch's data outruns the banking side. Its 351 hedge fund profiles rank #3 in the country, a rate of 21 per 100 IB profiles, and private equity is nearly as strong at #17 on 1,061 profiles, or 63 per 100 IB profiles. For a school sitting at #34 on banking itself, that investing network is disproportionately large; venture capital is the exception at #37.
Banking scale comes from volume rather than density: #27 by network size on 1,695 profiles, but #48 per capita, where 105.4 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates barely clears the 97.8 median against 16,086 undergraduates. The school ranks #30 by top-bank count on 289 analysts, 130 of them at the elite five for a 45 percent share, and the blend's per-student leg drags the headline four places back to #34. J.P. Morgan leads the firm counts at 69.
The buyside numbers describe who is in the network, not who moved there from banking — 21 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles is a mix, and many of those people may never have held a banking title at all. The verdict is a solid banking network attached to an unusually large investing one.
Across finance
Baruch 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
Baruch 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 Baruch 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, 1,517 (89%) are currently based in the United States and 178 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 16,086 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.
