Lower semi-target school#45 of 100
Is University of Florida a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Florida is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #45 of the 100 schools we measure: 255 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 1,152 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #45 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 255 75% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 77 30% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,152 #37 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 33.0 #77 per capita
- US-based
- 1,056 92%
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
Florida holds 255 top-bank analyst seats among 2013 graduates and later, ranking #36 on that measure against a headline rank of #45. The nine-place gap is the work of the per-student leg of the blend rather than of the analyst count itself, and 191 of those 255 graduated in 2018 or later for a 75 percent recent share.
Composition is where it gives ground. Elite-five representation is 77 people, a 30 percent share toward the low end of this tier, so the volume concentrates at the larger banks. The buyside network is solidly built, with 488 private equity profiles at #38 and 160 venture capital profiles at #41, and 92 percent of all profiles are US-based.
Per-capita reach is the constraint at 33.0 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, ranking #77, because 1,152 profiles are spread across 34,924 undergraduates. Florida is one of the better-value public options in this tier for reaching a top-bank analyst seat, provided the target is not exclusively the most selective firms.
Across finance
University of Florida’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 University of Floridain 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, 1,056 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 96 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 34,924 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.
