Which banks hire the most Baruch analysts?

By our count, J.P. Morgan leads with 69 Baruch alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Bank of America with 55 and Goldman Sachs with 44, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.

Do banks treat Baruch as a target school?

A semi-target for New York and a non-target elsewhere, by forum consensus. Our count ranks it #34 of 100, in the semi-target tier, on a large presence at the biggest New York banks spread across a large student body.

Which Baruch programs feed investment banking?

The Financial Leadership Program above all, by forum accounts and by the program’s own record, plus the Investment Management Group and the main finance clubs.

Which banks recruit at Baruch?

J.P. Morgan and Goldman have taken small numbers of front-office analysts on campus, and Mizuho and BMO hold on-campus recruiting, by forum accounts; the leadership program lists Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and UBS among its placements.

How many Baruch College alumni work in private equity?

1,061 Baruch College alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #17 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many Baruch College alumni work in venture capital?

178 Baruch College alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #37 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many Baruch College alumni work in hedge fund?

351 Baruch College alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #3 of the 100 schools in our database.

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Baruch College investment banking placement: is it a target school?

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.

By Ben Chon, former J.P. Morgan investment banking analystUpdated 2026-10-16

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Rank: #34of 100 schools
At 18 top banks, 2015+: 28980% graduated 2018+
At the elite five: 13045% of the top-bank total
IB alumni network: 1,695#27 by profiles
Per 1,000 undergrads: 105.4#48 per capita
US-based: 89%1,517 profiles

TargetTarget 1–15Semi-targetSemi 16–35Lower semi-targetLower 36–60Non-targetNon-target 61–100

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.

Is Baruch a target school for investment banking?

The verdict, from the data

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.

Baruch investment banking placement by bank

Analysts, classes of ~2015+

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.

Banks with fewer than five matched analysts, and banks not yet measured for this school, are left off the list. Of the 289 analysts at the 18 banks, 130 (45%) are at the elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview.

Where Baruch alumni land beyond investment banking

Alumni profiles, all years

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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.

How to recruit for investment banking from Baruch

Baruch is a public college in the City University of New York system, a walk from most of the large banks, with 16,086 undergraduates and a business school that grants the finance degrees. It publishes outcomes dashboards for its graduate programs; the undergraduate finance share is not published in text.

The Financial Leadership Program, run by the Starr Career Development Center, is the pipeline: a year-long curriculum for a select group of high-performing sophomores and juniors, with corporate valuation, modeling, and interview training, an alumni mentor and a peer mentor for each student, and a network of more than 600 alumni. The program says it has placed students in analyst programs at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America, UBS, and Credit Suisse.

The Investment Management Group began in the summer of 2010 as a simulated fund and now runs a real-money, long-only equity portfolio of about $2,400,000, one of the larger student-managed funds in the country, with alumni events and an annual review of member placements.

Forum accounts call Baruch a semi-target for New York and unknown elsewhere: J.P. Morgan and Goldman have recruited front-office roles on campus in small numbers, Mizuho and BMO hold on-campus recruiting, and most students who reach the front office come through the leadership program or the two main finance clubs, with the Big Four and back-office programs the larger recruiters.

The advice in every thread is the same and blunt: a very high GPA, self-taught technicals, boutique internships from the first year, and relentless networking on a New York address, with expectations set at middle-market and lower-tier bulge-bracket seats rather than top groups. A 2025 alumnus says more students break in now than a decade ago.

Our data ranks Baruch #34, with the headline held down by the size of the student body and lifted by a real presence at the largest New York banks. The bank breakdown above shows which of the 18 measured firms hold the most Baruch analysts.

What Baruch publishes about outcomes

3 figures, 2 sources

Every figure below is quoted from the source named above it, as published; none is ours. Read them beside our counts, which measure a different thing: analysts matched to named banks rather than a graduating class's outcomes.

Baruch Starr Career Development Center, Financial Leadership Program

Financial Leadership Program alumni: 600+

Baruch Investment Management Group

Investment Management Group assets under management (fall 2026): ~$2,400,000
Investment Management Group began: 2010

How Baruch compares with schools ranked nearby

Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+

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Baruch investment banking FAQ

8 questions

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.
Which banks hire the most Baruch analysts?
By our count, J.P. Morgan leads with 69 Baruch alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Bank of America with 55 and Goldman Sachs with 44, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.
Do banks treat Baruch as a target school?
A semi-target for New York and a non-target elsewhere, by forum consensus. Our count ranks it #34 of 100, in the semi-target tier, on a large presence at the biggest New York banks spread across a large student body.
Which Baruch programs feed investment banking?
The Financial Leadership Program above all, by forum accounts and by the program’s own record, plus the Investment Management Group and the main finance clubs.
Which banks recruit at Baruch?
J.P. Morgan and Goldman have taken small numbers of front-office analysts on campus, and Mizuho and BMO hold on-campus recruiting, by forum accounts; the leadership program lists Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and UBS among its placements.
How many Baruch College alumni work in private equity?
1,061 Baruch College alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #17 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Baruch College alumni work in venture capital?
178 Baruch College alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #37 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Baruch College alumni work in hedge fund?
351 Baruch College alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #3 of the 100 schools in our database.

How we counted Baruch’s analysts

Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. The headline rank is anchored on the strict measure: profiles that list Baruch College in 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 2026-10-16.

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.