Target school#11 of 100
Is Dartmouth College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Dartmouth College is a target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #11 of the 100 schools we measure: 521 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 2,026 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #11 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 521 75% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 270 52% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 2,026 #22 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 455.6 #5 per capita
- US-based
- 1,858 92%
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
Dartmouth's 455.6 investment banking profiles per 1,000 undergraduates rank #5 per capita across all 100 schools measured — a density built on the smallest undergraduate body in this top 15, just 4,447 students behind 2,026 banking profiles. It even edges out MIT, now eight places below at #19 overall, whose density sits at 452.4 per 1,000 undergraduates.
The tension in the numbers is scale: Dartmouth sits at #22 both by network size and by top-bank analyst count — 521 seats since the classes of 2013 — and only per-student strength pulls the headline up to #11. The network is also strikingly domestic — 92% US-based, a share only Notre Dame matches in this top 15, with 1,858 profiles stateside. Private equity is the favored exit at 45 profiles per 100 IB profiles, while venture capital sits at just 10 per 100 IB profiles. Hedge funds are the thin spot, ranking #49 of 100.
A per-capita figure this high still rests on a small absolute base: 2,026 profiles accumulated across every graduating class, which says nothing about how many analysts any single year sends to banks. Small denominators also make the density metric swing more than it would at a large school. The verdict is a compact, heavily domestic network that concentrates its weight in banking and private equity rather than spreading across the wider buyside.
Across finance
Dartmouth 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
Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth 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, 1,858 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 168 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 4,447 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.
