Non-target school#96 of 100
Is Case Western Reserve University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Case Western Reserve University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #96 of the 100 schools we measure: 30 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 358 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #96 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 30 93% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 12 40% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 358 #85 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 57.9 #64 per capita
- US-based
- 306 85%
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
93 percent of Case Western's top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later, 28 of 30, meaning almost the entire presence at the 18 largest banks was built in the most recent analyst classes rather than accumulated over a decade. That is the clearest signal in the school's profile, and it points forward rather than back.
The counterweight is size. The 30-person cohort ranks #97 on top-bank analysts, the weakest number in the school's file, and the headline now sits right beside it at #96. Density is 57.9 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against a 97.8 median, from 358 IB profiles and 6,186 undergrads. The elite five hold 12 of the 30, a 40 percent share, and 85 percent of profiles are US-based.
Thirty top-bank analysts leave very little for a student to work with, and the buyside picture is thinner still, with hedge funds at #97 on 10 profiles and private equity at #91 on 154. Case Western is early in building a banking pipeline rather than maintaining an established one, so a student here should expect to be among the people creating it.
Across finance
Case Western Reserve 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 Case Western Reserve 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, 306 (85%) are currently based in the United States and 52 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 6,186 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.
