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Is Georgetown University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Georgetown University is a target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #4 of the 100 schools we measure: 866 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 3,261 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #4 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 866 76% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 357 41% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 3,261 #10 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 409.3 #10 per capita
- US-based
- 2,731 84%
Ranks 1 through 15 are targets, and every school in this tier has placed at least 521 analysts into the 18 top banks since the classes of roughly 2015. The pipeline is proven at scale and banks arrive on campus expecting to hire, so your job is to use the machine early. Reach out to alumni your freshman and sophomore years, because at a target the competition sits in your own classrooms.
What the numbers say
Georgetown's two network ranks agree exactly — #10 by broad profile count and #10 on profiles per 1,000 undergraduates — and the headline outruns them both. Its 866 alumni matched to the 18 top banks by an investment banking analyst title rank #5 by top-bank count, and the per-student leg of the blend nudges that to #4 overall, ahead of schools with bigger broad networks.
The network itself counts 3,261 banking profiles, 2,731 of them (84%) based in the US — one of the more domestic footprints in the top ten. Density runs to 409.3 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates, more than four times the 100-school median of 97.8. The mix skews toward banking: 36 private equity profiles per 100 IB profiles, with hedge fund alumni ranking just #26 against its #4 overall rank.
These are all-time profiles — everyone who ever listed an investment banking title — so the count measures accumulated network depth rather than this year's analyst intake, and a total of 3,261 says nothing about how recent those careers are. Verdict: a genuine target where the broad network and the top-bank analyst count point the same direction.
Across finance
Georgetown 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.
Where its analysts go
Georgetown 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.
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 Georgetown 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, 2,731 (84%) are currently based in the United States and 530 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 7,968 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.
