Lower semi-target school#48 of 100
Is Hamilton College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Hamilton College is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #48 of the 100 schools we measure: 103 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 342 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #48 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 103 80% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 30 29% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 342 #88 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 167.0 #35 per capita
- US-based
- 314 92%
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
Hamilton ranks #88 by raw investment banking count yet #62 on alumni who have worked as investment banking analysts at the 18 top banks, a 26-place gap built on 103 such alumni drawn from a total of only 342 IB profiles. Close to three in ten of the school's banking network sits in a recent top-bank analyst seat.
Density runs to 167 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, from a base of 2,048 undergrads, and the pipeline is current: 82 of the 103 top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later. 92 percent of profiles are US-based. The shape here is a small college whose banking output is recent and pointed at large firms, and the top-bank-anchored headline now credits that shape with a #48 overall rank.
Where Hamilton thins out is everything after the analyst seat. Only 30 of the 103 top-bank analysts are at the elite five. Private equity ranks #93 with 131 profiles and hedge funds rank #94 with 18. The banking entry point is well established; the longer buyside path has far fewer alumni to learn from and will need building.
Across finance
Hamilton College’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.
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 Hamilton Collegein 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, 314 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 28 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 2,048 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.
