Non-target school#89 of 100
Baylor University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #89of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 50#88 by count
- At the elite five
- 2040% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 217#95 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 14.3#97 per capita
- US-based
- 94%204 profiles
Is Baylor a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataBaylor 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.
Baylor investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Baylor University's analysts at the 18 top banks we measure, graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles, against the elite five. Its per-bank cells are not yet measured, so the breakdown by bank is the one thing this page cannot show.
- 18All 18 top banks we measure50
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview20
By count alone Baylor University ranks #88 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Baylor alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsBaylor 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.
How to recruit for investment banking from Baylor
The Investment and Advisory Network is Baylor’s banking pipeline, a student organization whose mission is to promote the placement of Baylor students in investment banking, strategy consulting, equity research, wealth management, private equity, and hedge funds. Members need a 3.6 GPA or a cover letter explaining a lower one and must commit to mentoring after placement; each gets a senior and a junior alumni mentor plus coaching on résumés, informational interviews, technical and behavioral questions, mock interviews, and course selection.
Its placement list is Houston-heavy: the Class of 2025 shows Piper Sandler, Main Street Capital, and Bank of America in Houston and Jefferies in New York; the Class of 2024 Piper Sandler and Wells Fargo in Houston, Citi in New York, Stephens in Dallas, and Houlihan Lokey; the Class of 2023 Piper Sandler, Main Street Capital, Stifel, and WoodRock in Houston; and the Class of 2022 Credit Suisse, Citi, and Piper Jaffray in Houston with BMO in New York.
In fall 2025 the Hodges Capital Financial Markets Center funded the network’s recruiting trips: the entire sophomore class made the second annual Houston trip in October to TD Securities, Wells Fargo, Piper Sandler, Citi, Houlihan Lokey, Jefferies, and Main Street Capital, and a first New York trip in November gave five sophomores priority access to JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Centerview Partners, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Citi, Jefferies, and BMO, access the school says a typical non-target’s students would not have.
Forum opinion is split: an alumnus who joined the network and went into Houston banking calls it the best route and says Baylor to New York is hard but done, analysts report Baylor classmates in Texas energy groups, and one poster claims the school lands several banking seats a year, while others doubt that count, say Baylor bankers fought uphill against Texas and SMU students just to reach Houston, and rank it behind SMU and TCU for Houston banking.
Our data ranks Baylor #89 on 217 top-bank analysts from 15,155 undergraduates, or 14.3 per 1,000, the #97 per-capita figure in the country; 94% of its banking alumni network is US-based. Its per-bank cells are not yet fetched, so the neighbor table above stands in for a bank breakdown.
What Baylor publishes about outcomes
1 figures, 1 sourceEvery 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.
Baylor Hankamer School of Business, Investment and Advisory Network
- GPA required to join the Investment and Advisory Network
- 3.6 or higher
How Baylor compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Baylor investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many Baylor alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
50 Baylor University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #88 count of the 100 schools ranked; 20 of them are at the elite five, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Its per-bank breakdown is not yet measured, so the table above compares its total with the top of the ranking.
Do banks treat Baylor as a target school?
No; forum posters call it a non-target that places a handful a year into Houston energy banking through the Investment and Advisory Network, behind SMU and TCU in that city. Our count ranks it #89 of 100, with the #97 per-capita figure in the country.
Where do Baylor’s Investment and Advisory Network members place?
Mostly Houston: Piper Sandler, Main Street Capital, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Stifel appear across the 2022 to 2025 classes, with Jefferies, Citi, and BMO in New York and Stephens and Houlihan Lokey in Dallas.
What do Baylor students see on the network’s recruiting trips?
In fall 2025, Houston visits to TD Securities, Wells Fargo, Piper Sandler, Citi, Houlihan Lokey, and Jefferies for the whole sophomore class, and a first New York trip to JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Centerview, Deutsche Bank, and Barclays for five sophomores.
How many Baylor University alumni work in private equity?
141 Baylor University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #92 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Baylor University alumni work in venture capital?
19 Baylor University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #97 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Baylor University alumni work in hedge fund?
18 Baylor University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #93 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Baylor’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 Baylor University 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, 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.
