Target school#4 of 100
Georgetown University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #4of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 86676% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 35741% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 3,261#10 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 409.3#10 per capita
- US-based
- 84%2,731 profiles
Is Georgetown a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataGeorgetown'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.
Georgetown investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+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.
- 1Bank of America131
- 2J.P. Morgan124
- 3Goldman Sachs107
- 4Morgan Stanley100
- 5Citi97
- 6Barclays83
- 7UBS81
- 8Jefferies60
- 9Evercore37
- 10RBC Capital Markets37
- 11Deutsche Bank36
- 12Lazard36
- 13Wells Fargo33
- 14Houlihan Lokey28
- 15Centerview15
- 16Moelis15
- 17Perella Weinberg14
- 18PJT Partners11
Banks with fewer than five matched analysts, and banks not yet measured for this school, are left off the list. Of the 866 analysts at the 18 banks, 357 (41%) are at the elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview.
Where Georgetown alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsGeorgetown 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from Georgetown
McDonough's Class of 2025 went 59% into financial services and 20% into consulting, with an average salary of $102,780 and 97% of job seekers holding an offer within three months. Bank of America, Blackstone, Citigroup, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, Houlihan Lokey, JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, and UBS were among the top employers, and Poets&Quants ranked the school #2 nationally for career outcomes.
The Class of 2024 report reads the same way: 60% financial services, 96.3% of job seekers with an offer within three months, an average salary of $100,733 and an average signing bonus of $10,952, with 70% of graduates receiving a bonus.
Georgetown University Student Investment Fund was founded in 1997 and manages money for the endowment and the alumni association, more than $600,000 of it by a 2017 university account that also credited the fund with five Morgan Stanley offers in a single year. Zeeba Investment Group runs an international equities book, and Georgetown Collegiate Investors is a student-owned fund.
In September 2025 The Hoya reported that GUSIF, Zeeba, and other pre-professional clubs disaffiliated from the business school over Open Access rules that limit fall recruiting of first-years. The clubs wanted to keep taking freshmen in the fall, which is how a student with no finance background ends up an analyst at Bank of America by senior year.
The student press treats banking as the campus default and pushes back on it. A 2025 Georgetown Voice essay describes the business school, its clubs, and its career-driven circles as fixed on one destination, and argues the fixation crowds out everything else.
Forum accounts call Georgetown a New York target one tier below Harvard and Wharton, with Evercore's founder an alumnus and elite boutiques such as PJT, Evercore, Centerview, Moelis, and Lazard taking students every year. The same threads say banks hold quotas per school and describe the buyside as thinner than the banking pipeline.
Our bank breakdown above shows which of the 18 measured firms hold the most Georgetown analysts, and the #4 headline rests on that count rather than on the employer lists the school publishes.
What Georgetown publishes about outcomes
11 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.
McDonough School of Business, undergraduates report record salaries (Class of 2025)
- Financial services share, McDonough Class of 2025
- 59%
- Consulting share, Class of 2025
- 20%
- Average starting salary, Class of 2025
- $102,780
- Job seekers with an offer within three months, Class of 2025
- 97%
McDonough School of Business, Class of 2024 finds career success
- Financial services share, Class of 2024
- 60%
- Job seekers with an offer within three months, Class of 2024
- 96.3%
- Average starting salary, Class of 2024
- $100,733
- Average signing bonus, Class of 2024
- $10,952
- Graduates receiving a signing bonus, Class of 2024
- 70%
Georgetown University Student Investment Fund
- GUSIF founded
- 1997
McDonough School of Business, Investment fund participation pays dividends (2017)
- GUSIF assets under management (2017)
- $600,000+
How Georgetown compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Georgetown investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
Which banks hire the most Georgetown analysts?
By our count, Bank of America leads with 131 Georgetown alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then J.P. Morgan with 124 and Goldman Sachs with 107, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.
Do banks treat Georgetown as a target or a semi-target?
A target, #4 of 100 by our count. Forum tier lists argue about the rung, and the practical limit they describe is quotas per school rather than access.
Do you need GUSIF to get an investment banking offer from Georgetown?
No, by the account of posters who recruited without it. It is the deepest pipeline to elite boutiques, and the clubs' fight to keep fall first-year recruiting shows how early that pipeline starts.
Is Georgetown a New York school or a DC school for banking?
New York. The top-employer lists are Wall Street firms, and forum accounts describe it as a New York target with elite-boutique placement every year.
How many Georgetown University alumni work in private equity?
1,160 Georgetown University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #16 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Georgetown University alumni work in venture capital?
341 Georgetown University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #17 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Georgetown University alumni work in hedge fund?
101 Georgetown University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #26 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Georgetown’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 Georgetown University 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, 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.
