Lower semi-target school#48 of 100
Hamilton College investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #48of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 10380% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 3029% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 342#88 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 167.0#35 per capita
- US-based
- 92%314 profiles
Is Hamilton a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataHamilton 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.
Hamilton investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Hamilton College'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 measure103
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview30
By count alone Hamilton College ranks #62 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Hamilton alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsHamilton 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.
How to recruit for investment banking from Hamilton
Hamilton’s Class of 2024 report covers 428 of 488 graduates, an 87.7% knowledge rate: 73.4% employed in a job or internship, 16.6% in graduate school, and 1.6% on fellowships, 392 graduates or 91.6% in all. Finance is the largest field at 62 graduates, 19.3% of those reporting, ahead of science and technology at 55 and education at 36, and the employer list includes Bank of America, Barclays Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Lazard, and Wells Fargo.
The Class of 2023 report, on 424 of 498 graduates and an 85.1% knowledge rate, had finance at 56 graduates or 16.5% of those reporting, so the field grew in both count and share within a year, which is unusual for a college of this size.
A December 2021 college story followed two seniors into Goldman Sachs: one to the Healthcare Group as an investment banking analyst after a summer internship there, the other into the New Analyst Program after investing internships at Burgiss and VanEck. Both credited on-campus sessions with alumni in finance, and one called those conversations, across every level of seniority, the single most important part of building his industry knowledge.
The career center’s Finance & Consulting community organizes the support: a Sadove First Year Internship Program, a networking guide for first contacts, a Handshake resource library of alumni content for the industry, and a track for alumni and parents who want to hire or advise students.
The forum thread comparing Hamilton with Wake Forest, Bucknell, Colgate, and Villanova, using each school’s first-destination report, put Hamilton’s investment banking count in the high single digits from the smallest class of the five, under two thousand undergraduates, and rated the group semi-targets with great alumni networks and some bulge-bracket recruiting on campus, noting that small schools like Hamilton and Colgate simply send a smaller number of students.
Our data ranks Hamilton #48 on 342 top-bank analysts from 2,048 undergraduates, or 167.0 per 1,000, the #35 per-capita figure in the country from a raw count that ranks #88; 92% 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 Hamilton publishes about outcomes
12 figures, 2 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.
Hamilton College, Class of 2024 Report
- Graduates covered, Class of 2024
- 428 of 488
- Knowledge rate, Class of 2024
- 87.7%
- Employed in a job or internship, Class of 2024
- 73.4%
- In graduate school, Class of 2024
- 16.6%
- On a post-graduate fellowship, Class of 2024
- 1.6%
- Employed, in graduate school, or on a fellowship, Class of 2024
- 392 (91.6%)
- Finance graduates, Class of 2024
- 62 (19.3%)
- Science and technology graduates, Class of 2024
- 55
- Education graduates, Class of 2024
- 36
Hamilton College, Class of 2023 Report
- Graduates covered, Class of 2023
- 424 of 498
- Knowledge rate, Class of 2023
- 85.1%
- Finance graduates, Class of 2023
- 56 (16.5%)
How Hamilton compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Hamilton investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many Hamilton alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
103 Hamilton College alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #62 count of the 100 schools ranked; 30 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 Hamilton as a target school?
A liberal arts semi-target by forum consensus, sending a high-single-digit count into banking from a class under two thousand. Our count ranks it #48 of 100, with the #35 per-capita figure in the country.
What share of Hamilton graduates go into finance?
19.3% of the Class of 2024 reporting, 62 graduates, up from 56 and 16.5% in the Class of 2023, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Barclays, and Lazard among employers.
How do Hamilton students reach investment banking without a business major?
Through alumni: the two seniors the college profiled at Goldman Sachs credited on-campus alumni sessions and earlier internships, and the career center runs a first-year internship program and a finance community.
How many Hamilton College alumni work in private equity?
131 Hamilton College alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #93 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Hamilton College alumni work in venture capital?
29 Hamilton College alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #93 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Hamilton College alumni work in hedge fund?
18 Hamilton College alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #94 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Hamilton’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 Hamilton College 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, 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.
