Non-target school#81 of 100
Is College of the Holy Cross a Target School for Investment Banking?
College of the Holy Cross is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #81 of the 100 schools we measure: 45 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 248 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #81 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 45 67% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 16 36% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 248 #93 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 81.7 #57 per capita
- US-based
- 240 97%
A rank below 60 puts the odds against you without ending your chances: every school on this list has placed analysts into the top banks. Plan on cold email volume that feels unreasonable and a resume built from early finance internships. The students who make it from this tier start earlier and follow up longer than everyone they are competing against.
What the numbers say
Holy Cross turns 3,035 undergraduates into 248 IB profiles, or 81.7 per 1,000 undergraduates. That sits under the 100-school median of 97.8 yet still earns a per-capita rank of #57, well ahead of the school's #93 finish on raw volume. 45 alumni listed investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks since the 2013 class.
The recency profile is the weaker part of the file. 30 of the 45, or 67 percent, graduated in 2018 or later, meaning roughly a third of the group came through before 2018. 16 of the 45, or 36 percent, are at the elite five. The alumni base is almost entirely domestic at 97 percent US-based, with private equity at 48 profiles per 100 IB profiles.
Volume is the real constraint: the #81 headline and the #92 rank on top-bank alumni both reflect 45 people spread over roughly a decade, which is a handful per class at most. The counterweight is efficiency, since the school generates banking profiles at a much higher per-student rate than its headline position implies.
Across finance
College of the Holy Cross’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 College of the Holy Crossin 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, 240 (97%) are currently based in the United States and 8 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 3,035 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.
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