Non-target school#82 of 100
Is Florida State University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Florida State University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #82 of the 100 schools we measure: 87 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 504 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #82 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 87 87% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 23 26% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 504 #72 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 15.6 #94 per capita
- US-based
- 476 94%
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
Of the 87 Florida State alumni who listed an investment banking analyst title alongside one of 18 top banks since the 2013 graduating class, 76 finished school in 2018 or later. That 87 percent recent share means the top-bank network here was assembled almost entirely within the last several analyst classes, and the people inside it are still early in their own careers.
The school ranks #75 on that top-bank count against a headline rank of #82, and #72 on raw profile volume. The per-student leg of the blend is what pulls the headline down: 504 IB profiles across 32,217 undergraduates works out to 15.6 per 1,000 undergraduates, far under the 100-school median of 97.8, which places Florida State at #94 per capita. 23 of the 87, or 26 percent, are at the elite five.
One caution applies throughout. The profile total counts everyone who has ever listed a banking title at any firm worldwide, all-time, so it measures the size of an alumni network rather than yearly hiring, and the per-capita rank shows how thinly that network spreads across the undergraduate population. Florida State still produced 87 top-bank analysts in roughly a decade, which makes this a documented path rather than a hypothetical one.
Across finance
Florida State 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.
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 Florida State 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, 476 (94%) are currently based in the United States and 28 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 32,217 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.
