Which banks hire the most Emory analysts?

By our count, Bank of America leads with 42 Emory alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Citi with 41 and J.P. Morgan with 34, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.

Do banks treat Emory as a target or a semi-target?

A semi-target, #27 of 100 by our count and by forum consensus, with a core on-campus presence from elite boutiques and middle-market banks and Atlanta and Charlotte as the reliable markets.

Which banks recruit hardest at Emory?

Lazard above all, by forum accounts, with Citi, Perella Weinberg, Houlihan Lokey, Centerview, Rothschild, Greenhill, and Guggenheim behind it. The bank breakdown on this page shows which of the 18 measured firms hold the most Emory analysts.

Does Goizueta matter, or can you recruit from Emory College?

Goizueta admits nearly everyone who applies, so the school is not a filter, but forum posters say its career center and finance clubs are far stronger than the college’s.

How many Emory University alumni work in private equity?

676 Emory University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #33 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many Emory University alumni work in venture capital?

200 Emory University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #29 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many Emory University alumni work in hedge fund?

47 Emory University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #59 of the 100 schools in our database.

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Emory University investment banking placement: is it a target school?

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.

By Ben Chon, former J.P. Morgan investment banking analystUpdated 2026-10-16

Photo: Daniel Mayer · CC BY-SA 3.0

Rank: #27of 100 schools
At 18 top banks, 2015+: 31880% graduated 2018+
At the elite five: 11035% of the top-bank total
IB alumni network: 1,450#33 by profiles
Per 1,000 undergrads: 197.0#28 per capita
US-based: 87%1,262 profiles

TargetTarget 1–15Semi-targetSemi 16–35Lower semi-targetLower 36–60Non-targetNon-target 61–100

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.

Is Emory a target school for investment banking?

The verdict, from the data

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.

Emory investment banking placement by bank

Analysts, classes of ~2015+

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.

Banks with fewer than five matched analysts, and banks not yet measured for this school, are left off the list. Of the 318 analysts at the 18 banks, 110 (35%) are at the elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview.

Where Emory alumni land beyond investment banking

Alumni profiles, all years

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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.

How to recruit for investment banking from Emory

Goizueta reports its BBA Class of 2025 at 98% with job offers within three months and 97% accepting, an average base salary of $87,749 and an average signing bonus of nearly $10,000. Financial services took 44% of outcomes, consulting 13%, and the Northeast drew 43% of graduates to the South’s 28%. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, and American Express are on the employer list.

The full report goes a level deeper: 175 graduates went into financial services at a median base of $100,000, and 76 of them, 19% of the class, into investment banking and capital markets at a $105,046 average and $110,000 median base with a $12,903 average signing bonus. For the Class of 2026, financial services took 53% of internships.

Forum accounts describe a semi-target with a regional core and an elite-boutique tilt: a core on-campus school for Citi, Lazard, Perella Weinberg, Houlihan Lokey, BMO, and Mizuho, a consistent pipeline into Centerview, Lazard, Rothschild, Greenhill, and Guggenheim, and a very large Lazard presence that several posters mention on its own.

Southeast placement in Atlanta and Charlotte is described as close to guaranteed for a prepared student and New York as doable with work, with a lateral to New York after a year or two called easy. Compared with North Carolina, Emory has the better pipeline into elite boutiques and North Carolina into bulge brackets.

Two nuances from the threads: Goizueta admits nearly every Emory student who applies, so the business school is not a filter, and its career center is described as far stronger than the college’s. The dissent is real too, with some posters calling Emory a non-target and a 2025 freshman noting sharp upperclassmen who struck out; a banker answers that Emory is a core school at his bank.

Our data ranks Emory #27 from a base of 7,359 undergraduates, so the per-student leg does more of the work than volume. The bank breakdown above shows which of the 18 measured firms hold the most Emory analysts.

What Emory publishes about outcomes

15 figures, 2 sources

Every figure below is quoted from the source named above it, as published; none is ours. Read them beside our counts, which measure a different thing: analysts matched to named banks rather than a graduating class's outcomes.

EmoryBusiness.com, 98 percent of Goizueta’s 2025 BBA graduates received job offers within three months (March 2026)

Job offers within three months, Goizueta BBA Class of 2025: 98%
Offers accepted, Class of 2025: 97%
Average base salary, Class of 2025: $87,749
Average signing bonus, Class of 2025: nearly $10,000
Financial services share, Class of 2025: 44%
Consulting share, Class of 2025: 13%
Northeast share of placements, Class of 2025: 43%
South share of placements, Class of 2025: 28%

Goizueta Business School, BBA Employment Report 2025

Graduates in financial services, Class of 2025: 175
Financial services median base salary, Class of 2025: $100,000
Graduates in investment banking and capital markets, Class of 2025: 76 (19%)
Investment banking and capital markets average base salary: $105,046
Investment banking and capital markets median base salary: $110,000
Investment banking and capital markets average signing bonus: $12,903
Financial services share of internships, Class of 2026: 53%

How Emory compares with schools ranked nearby

Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+

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Emory investment banking FAQ

8 questions

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.
Which banks hire the most Emory analysts?
By our count, Bank of America leads with 42 Emory alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Citi with 41 and J.P. Morgan with 34, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.
Do banks treat Emory as a target or a semi-target?
A semi-target, #27 of 100 by our count and by forum consensus, with a core on-campus presence from elite boutiques and middle-market banks and Atlanta and Charlotte as the reliable markets.
Which banks recruit hardest at Emory?
Lazard above all, by forum accounts, with Citi, Perella Weinberg, Houlihan Lokey, Centerview, Rothschild, Greenhill, and Guggenheim behind it. The bank breakdown on this page shows which of the 18 measured firms hold the most Emory analysts.
Does Goizueta matter, or can you recruit from Emory College?
Goizueta admits nearly everyone who applies, so the school is not a filter, but forum posters say its career center and finance clubs are far stronger than the college’s.
How many Emory University alumni work in private equity?
676 Emory University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #33 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Emory University alumni work in venture capital?
200 Emory University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #29 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Emory University alumni work in hedge fund?
47 Emory University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #59 of the 100 schools in our database.

How we counted Emory’s analysts

Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. The headline rank is anchored on the strict measure: profiles that list Emory University in 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 2026-10-16.

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.