Semi-target school#27 of 100
Is Emory University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Emory University is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #27 of the 100 schools we measure: 318 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 1,450 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #27 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 318 80% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 110 35% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,450 #33 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 197.0 #28 per capita
- US-based
- 1,262 87%
Schools ranked 16 through 35 place real numbers into top banks — at least 152 analysts each in this data — but the per-school pipeline runs thinner. Alumni will answer your emails, and the difference between getting an interview and getting skipped comes down to outreach volume. Start networking earlier than your target-school peers and treat every alumni conversation as a referral opportunity.
What the numbers say
Emory's top-bank rank and its headline rank are the same number, #27, which is rare — the blend's per-student leg usually pushes a school a few places off its raw count of analysts at the 18 top banks, here 318 people. Its firm counts are tightly bunched as well, running from Bank of America's 42 down to Morgan Stanley's 29, with nothing resembling a dominant single relationship.
The broad network stays in step, ranking #33 by size on 1,450 profiles and #28 on density at 197 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates, twice the 97.8 median. Eighty percent of top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later, and elite-five firms hold 110 of the 318, or 35 percent. Eighty-seven percent of profiles are US-based, while hedge funds are the thin spot at #59 on 47 profiles.
With only 318 top-bank analysts, small absolute differences move the rank a long way, so #27 is a coarser signal than the same rank would be for a school with twice the volume. The verdict is a mid-sized network that is unusually consistent across every measure the data offers.
Across finance
Emory 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.
Where its analysts go
Emory University 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 Emory 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, 1,262 (87%) are currently based in the United States and 188 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 7,359 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.
