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Is Boston College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Boston College is a target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #15 of the 100 schools we measure: 569 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 2,281 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #15 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 569 76% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 158 28% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 2,281 #18 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 226.2 #23 per capita
- US-based
- 1,953 86%
Ranks 1 through 15 are targets, and every school in this tier has placed at least 521 analysts into the 18 top banks since the classes of roughly 2015. The pipeline is proven at scale and banks arrive on campus expecting to hire, so your job is to use the machine early. Reach out to alumni your freshman and sophomore years, because at a target the competition sits in your own classrooms.
What the numbers say
Citi accounts for 104 of Boston College's 569 top-bank analysts, the largest single-firm tie in its data and clear of UBS at 89. Deutsche Bank follows with 64 and Barclays with 62, which pushes Goldman Sachs down to fifth place at 58. That ordering is unusual for a school ranked this high, and it lines up with an elite-five share of only 28 percent, or 158 of the 569.
The broad measures sit close together, #18 by network size on 2,281 profiles and #23 on density, and 226.2 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates runs more than double the 97.8 median across the 100 schools. The top-bank count ranks #17, two places behind the headline #15, so the strict analyst measure and the blended rank tell nearly the same story. Eighty-six percent of profiles are US-based, and hedge funds contribute 5 per 100 IB profiles.
The headline measure only sees 18 firms, so whatever the school does at banks outside that list stays invisible in the rank, and its heavy Citi and Deutsche Bank weighting reflects relationships the elite-five share gives no credit for. The verdict is a deep and internally consistent network whose strength shows up in volume rather than in the most concentrated brands.
Across finance
Boston 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
Boston 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 Boston 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, 1,953 (86%) are currently based in the United States and 328 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 10,083 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.
