Lower semi-target school#55 of 100
Is Georgia Tech a Target School for Investment Banking?
Georgia Tech is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #55 of the 100 schools we measure: 145 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 990 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #55 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 145 86% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 65 45% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 990 #43 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 50.8 #67 per capita
- US-based
- 850 86%
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
Eighty-six percent of Georgia Tech's top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later, 125 of 145 people, the steepest recent skew in this tier. The pipeline here is a recent construction rather than an inherited one, which means current students are following a path that classes just ahead of them have already walked rather than one that peaked years ago.
The venture side is the distinguishing feature of the wider network, with 189 venture capital profiles ranking #35 and 19 venture capital profiles per 100 IB profiles, both well ahead of the school's IB rank of #55. Elite-five representation is 65 people, a 45 percent share, and the top-bank rank of #48 sits seven places ahead of the headline #55.
Absolute volume is modest for a school of 19,505 undergraduates: 145 top-bank analysts and 990 IB profiles, giving 50.8 per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median and a per-capita rank of #67. Georgia Tech is a rising banking pipeline attached to an unusually strong venture network, and the banking numbers are still small enough that recruiting depth varies year to year.
Across finance
Georgia Tech’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 Georgia Techin 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, 850 (86%) are currently based in the United States and 140 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 19,505 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.
