Non-target school#89 of 100
Is Baylor University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Baylor University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #89 of the 100 schools we measure: 50 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 217 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #89 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 50
- At the elite five
- 20 40% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 217 #95 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 14.3 #97 per capita
- US-based
- 204 94%
A rank below 60 puts the odds against you without ending your chances: every school on this list has placed analysts into the top banks. Plan on cold email volume that feels unreasonable and a resume built from early finance internships. The students who make it from this tier start earlier and follow up longer than everyone they are competing against.
What the numbers say
Baylor ranks #88 on top-bank alumni and #89 overall, a single place apart, and both rest on 50 people who listed investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks after graduating in 2013 or later. 20 of them, or 40 percent, are at the elite five.
The broad network is where the numbers thin out. 217 IB profiles across 15,155 undergraduates is 14.3 per 1,000 undergraduates against the 100-school median of 97.8, ranking #97 per capita, while raw volume ranks #95. 94 percent of profiles are US-based, and the buyside picture leans toward private equity at 65 profiles per 100 IB profiles, well ahead of the 9 in venture capital.
A total of 217 banking profiles is genuinely small, and the venture and hedge fund networks are smaller still at #97 and #93 on those verticals. What stands out is the ratio inside the file, since a modest profile base has still produced 50 analysts at the largest banks, and that is the number worth carrying forward from this page.
Across finance
Baylor University’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.
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 Baylor Universityin 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, 204 (94%) are currently based in the United States and 13 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 15,155 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.
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