Lower semi-target school#55 of 100
Georgia Tech investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #55of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 14586% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 6545% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 990#43 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 50.8#67 per capita
- US-based
- 86%850 profiles
Is Georgia Tech a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataEighty-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.
Georgia Tech investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Georgia Tech'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 measure145
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview65
By count alone Georgia Tech ranks #48 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Georgia Tech alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsGeorgia 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from Georgia Tech
Scheller’s Class of 2025 report puts 93% of business administration graduates in full-time roles within three months, at an $82,722 average salary with a $9,003 average signing bonus for the 66% who received one, across 163 employers. Finance concentrators averaged $87,319, the highest of any concentration; KPMG, McKinsey, and Deloitte each hired five graduates, and the companies hiring two include Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, Wells Fargo, Truist, and Capital One.
The pipeline is the Georgia Tech Student Foundation’s Investments Committee, which manages an endowment of about $2,000,000, and the Accel Program for investment banking inside it. Accel was founded in 2017 by a finance student who noticed firms overlooking Tech during his own recruiting; it takes second- and third-year students through a résumé workshop, technical training, seminars, alumni calls, and mock interviews, then has them mentor the next class, with alumni contacts at Credit Suisse, Bank of America, and JP Morgan and a stated goal of making Tech a target school. Committee testimonials include a member who interned at Goldman Sachs and another who went full time to Moelis.
Peak Frameworks ranks Georgia Tech #60 of 60, the last slot on its list, and #58 by total hires: a lower semi-target that sends few people into banking but whose top students still reach the top banks, with a presence score of 18% that signals thin representation on Wall Street.
Forum accounts from alumni say recent classes placed at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, Citi, Evercore, and Moelis, that Roark Capital and Truist like Tech students who want to stay in Atlanta, and that nearly everyone who made it was in the Investments Committee and most in Accel, a selective slice of the school; the caution in the Georgia comparison is that Tech has historically had few banking placements and that Georgia’s network is stronger for a student set on banking or private equity out of undergrad.
Our data ranks Georgia Tech #55 on 990 top-bank analysts, the #43 count in the country, from 19,505 undergraduates, or 50.8 per 1,000; 86% 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 Georgia Tech publishes about outcomes
10 figures, 3 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.
Scheller College of Business, Undergraduate Class of 2025 Career Outcomes
- Class of 2025 employed full time within three months
- 93%
- Average salary, Class of 2025
- $82,722
- Average signing bonus, Class of 2025
- $9,003
- Graduates receiving a bonus, Class of 2025
- 66%
- Employers hiring the Class of 2025
- 163
- Finance concentration average salary, Class of 2025
- $87,319
Scheller College of Business, Finance-Related Student Activities and Resources (PDF)
- Investments Committee endowment
- about $2,000,000
Peak Frameworks, Georgia Institute of Technology Investment Banking Placement
- Peak Frameworks rank
- #60 of 60
- Peak Frameworks rank by total hires
- #58
- Peak Frameworks presence score
- 18%
How Georgia Tech compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Georgia Tech investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many Georgia Tech alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
145 Georgia Tech alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #48 count of the 100 schools ranked; 65 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 Georgia Tech as a target school?
A lower semi-target at the bottom of Peak Frameworks’ list, #60 of 60, whose top students still reach the top banks; forum alumni say placement runs through the Investments Committee and Accel. Our count ranks it #55 of 100.
What is the Accel program at Georgia Tech?
An investment banking preparation program inside the Student Foundation’s Investments Committee, founded in 2017, that trains second- and third-year students with technical sessions, alumni calls, and mock interviews before recruiting.
What do Scheller finance graduates earn?
Finance concentrators in the Class of 2025 averaged $87,319, the highest concentration, against $82,722 for the class, with 93% employed within three months.
How many Georgia Tech alumni work in private equity?
431 Georgia Tech alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #46 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Georgia Tech alumni work in venture capital?
189 Georgia Tech alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #35 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Georgia Tech alumni work in hedge fund?
66 Georgia Tech alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #45 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Georgia Tech’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 Georgia Tech 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, 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.
