Non-target school#87 of 100
Is Fairfield University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Fairfield University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #87 of the 100 schools we measure: 42 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 276 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #87 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 42 81% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 14 33% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 276 #91 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 55.6 #65 per capita
- US-based
- 268 97%
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
42 Fairfield alumni listed an investment banking analyst title alongside one of the 18 top banks after graduating in 2013 or later, and 34 of them, or 81 percent, finished in 2018 or later. The bulk of the school's top-bank presence has therefore been built during the most recent analyst classes rather than accumulated slowly over earlier decades.
276 IB profiles from 4,968 undergraduates works out to 55.6 per 1,000 undergraduates, below the median of 97.8 but good enough for #65 per capita against #91 by volume. The network is almost entirely domestic, with 268 of the 276 profiles in the United States. Elite-five representation is comparatively light at 14 analysts, 33 percent of the group, while hedge funds rank #53 with 20 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles.
Placement at the largest banks ranks #94, seven places behind the headline #87, with the blend's per-student leg making up the difference for a college of this scale. A cohort of 42 across a decade is small by any reading, and it is also real and traceable, which is more than the headline rank on its own communicates.
Across finance
Fairfield 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 Fairfield 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, 268 (97%) are currently based in the United States and 8 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 4,968 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.
