Lower semi-target school#45 of 100
University of Florida investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #45of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 25575% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 7730% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,152#37 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 33.0#77 per capita
- US-based
- 92%1,056 profiles
Is UF a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataFlorida 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.
UF investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+University of Florida's analysts at the 18 top banks we measure, graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles, against the elite five. Its per-bank cells are not yet measured, so the breakdown by bank is the one thing this page cannot show.
- 18All 18 top banks we measure255
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview77
By count alone University of Florida ranks #36 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where UF alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsUniversity 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from UF
Warrington’s report on the 2024–2025 graduating year says 89% of Heavener School of Business undergraduates accepted a job or enrolled in further education, up from 74.9% the year before, with a $64,047 average starting salary and a $6,802 signing bonus for those in full-time roles. Its top-employer list runs from the Big Four to Raymond James Financial, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo.
The Gator Student Investment Fund is the campus pipeline: more than 50 students invest $1,900,000 of university assets in value-oriented small- and mid-cap domestic equities against the S&P 1000, with a sector-neutral book, tracking-error limits, and a pitch pipeline that runs from swift screens to a full-fund final pitch. Admission is a highly competitive process each semester that prefers first- and second-year applicants from any discipline, and the fund’s returns support scholarships for first-generation, low-income students.
The fund’s placements page lists alumni at Apollo, Ares, Blackstone, Centerview Partners, D1 Capital, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Millennium, and Point72. Recent summer analyst seats show the Evercore and RBC relationships: the Class of 2027 has 6 members at RBC and 2 at Evercore alongside Goldman Sachs, Houlihan Lokey, Moelis, and William Blair, and the Class of 2028 has 4 at Evercore, 3 at Goldman Sachs, 3 at RBC, and 2 at Nomura, with Citi, Bank of America, Guggenheim, PWP, and BDT & MSD also on the list.
Peak Frameworks ranks Florida #44 of 60 and #37 by total hires, a lower semi-target with a lopsided distribution: an elite-firm share of 46%, driven by Evercore, which accounts for 29% of all Florida hires in its data, against an undergraduate placement rate of 0.10% that suggests most students have no route into finance.
Forum accounts call Florida a non-target that top students break out of through networking, with the Gator Student Investment Fund or Founders Fund in freshman year and the finance master’s program, open only to Florida undergraduates and recruited by bulge brackets and elite boutiques, as the standard path. Posters say most of that cohort lands at firms like RBC rather than Evercore, that Evercore’s bar is a very high GPA and test score plus the fund, and that the master’s program’s alumni network pulls hard for students.
Our data ranks UF #45 on 1,152 top-bank analysts, the #37 count in the country, from 34,924 undergraduates, or 33.0 per 1,000; 92% of its banking alumni network is US-based. Its per-bank cells are not yet fetched, so the neighbor table above stands in for a bank breakdown.
What UF publishes about outcomes
16 figures, 4 sourcesEvery 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.
Warrington College of Business, Class of 2024-2025 graduate outcomes
- Heavener graduates placed in a job or further education, 2024–2025
- 89%
- Heavener placement rate the year before
- 74.9%
- Average starting salary, 2024–2025
- $64,047
- Average signing bonus, 2024–2025
- $6,802
Warrington College of Business, Gator Student Investment Fund
- Gator Student Investment Fund members
- more than 50
- Gator Student Investment Fund assets under management
- $1,900,000
Gator Student Investment Fund, Placements
- Class of 2027 summer analysts at RBC
- 6
- Class of 2027 summer analysts at Evercore
- 2
- Class of 2028 summer analysts at Evercore
- 4
- Class of 2028 summer analysts at Goldman Sachs and at RBC
- 3 each
- Class of 2028 summer analysts at Nomura
- 2
Peak Frameworks, University of Florida Investment Banking Placement
- Peak Frameworks rank
- #44 of 60
- Peak Frameworks rank by total hires
- #37
- Share of Peak-counted hires at the top five firms
- 46%
- Share of Peak-counted hires at Evercore
- 29%
- Peak Frameworks undergraduate placement rate
- 0.10%
How UF compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+UF investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many UF alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
255 University of Florida alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #36 count of the 100 schools ranked; 77 of them are at the elite five, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Its per-bank breakdown is not yet measured, so the table above compares its total with the top of the ranking.
Do banks treat the University of Florida as a target school?
No; forum posters call it a non-target that its top students escape through the investment fund and the finance master’s program, and Peak Frameworks ranks it #44 of 60 with Evercore taking 29% of its hires. Our count ranks it #45 of 100.
Which banks hire from the Gator Student Investment Fund?
Evercore and RBC most visibly: the Class of 2028 roster shows 4 summer analysts at Evercore and 3 at RBC, with Goldman Sachs, Citi, Bank of America, Moelis, and Houlihan Lokey also on the list.
What do Florida business graduates earn out of school?
The 2024–2025 report lists a $64,047 average starting salary and a $6,802 signing bonus, with 89% of Heavener graduates placed in a job or further education.
How many University of Florida alumni work in private equity?
488 University of Florida alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #38 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Florida alumni work in venture capital?
160 University of Florida alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #41 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Florida alumni work in hedge fund?
63 University of Florida alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #48 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted UF’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 University of Florida 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, 1,056 (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.
