Lower semi-target school#44 of 100
Is Colgate University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Colgate University is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #44 of the 100 schools we measure: 138 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 621 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #44 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 138 78% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 40 29% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 621 #61 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 198.3 #27 per capita
- US-based
- 587 95%
In the 36 to 60 band the pipeline still exists — every school here shows at least 92 analysts at the top banks — but it is thin enough that you have to build your own. Expect to source interviews through cold emails and off-cycle applications rather than campus recruiting, and expect the alumni you find to remember what that climb felt like.
What the numbers say
Ninety-five percent of Colgate's IB profiles are currently US-based, 587 of 621, one of the most domestically concentrated networks in this tier. For anyone recruiting inside the United States, effectively the whole alumni base is reachable, which is not true of the large public schools nearby where a fifth or more of profiles sit abroad.
The broad network splits cleanly: 198.3 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates is roughly double the 97.8 median and ranks #27 per capita, against a #61 rank by network size. The pipeline is trending upward, with 108 of 138 top-bank analysts graduating in 2018 or later, a 78 percent recent share. The count itself ranks #52 by top-bank analysts, and the blend's per-student leg lifts the headline eight places to #44.
Elite-five presence is the weak link at 40 people, a 29 percent share, and the buyside network is limited, with 271 private equity profiles at #65 and 55 venture capital profiles at #75. Colgate sends a steady and growing group into top-bank analyst seats, with placement concentrated outside the most selective firms.
Across finance
Colgate 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. The last column shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
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 Colgate 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, 587 (95%) are currently based in the United States and 34 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 3,131 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.
