Non-target school#80 of 100
Howard University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
Howard University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #80 of the 100 schools we measure: 57 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 328 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #80of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 5781% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 3663% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 328#89 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 32.2#78 per capita
- US-based
- 91%300 profiles
Is Howard a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the data36 of Howard's 57 top-bank analysts are at the elite five, a 63 percent elite share. Those 57 people graduated in 2013 or later and listed investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks tracked here, which ranks the school #81 on that count, one place behind the #80 headline rank.
46 of the 57, or 81 percent, graduated in 2018 or later, so the network is current as well as top-weighted. 328 IB profiles across 10,190 undergraduates gives 32.2 per 1,000 undergraduates against the median of 97.8, placing Howard at #78 per capita and #89 by volume. 91 percent of profiles are US-based, and private equity runs 57 profiles per 100 IB profiles.
The overall totals stay modest, and hedge funds are close to absent at 5 profiles per 100 IB profiles and a #95 vertical rank. What the file describes is a compact network whose destinations skew higher than its size, which is the fact most worth planning around for anyone reading this page.
Howard investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Howard University'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 measure57
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview36
By count alone Howard University ranks #83 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Howard alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsHoward University’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 Howard
Howard’s finance program offers five concentrations, one of them investment banking, capital markets, and trading, built around the professional training the industry expects, and the department says its alumni since 1970 represent the largest number of African Americans on Wall Street; the department is affiliated with the HPS Center for Financial Excellence.
The HPS Center for Financial Excellence, created by a $10,000,000 gift from HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation announced in 2021, exists to produce graduates for investment and wealth management, commercial and investment banking, real estate, and capital markets; its tracks include an Investment Management Academy scholars program, a wealth management program, an HPS mentorship program and scholarships, and Wall Street on Campus, an annual seminar that brings professionals from leading firms to Howard and nearby colleges.
A university feature on the center describes its aim of turning talented but historically excluded students into banking, private equity, and asset management professionals under director Curtis Kidd Telemaque, layered onto student clubs such as the Howard University Investment Group and the Black Venture Capitalist Club; its proof point was five first- and second-year students winning Goldman Sachs’ Market Madness case competition at the firm’s headquarters, a $1,000,000 unrestricted grant to the university that flows into scholarships and Bloomberg terminals, followed by summer internships at NVIDIA, Blackstone wealth management, and Goldman itself.
Black Enterprise profiled a graduate who turned a Barclays summer internship into an investment banking analyst seat and credited the center’s mentorship, against a backdrop in which only 0.5% of senior investment bankers at global banks are Black. A Howard senior on the forums says Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Barclays recruit the most from campus, that Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Bank of America take cold networking, that Blackstone and Warburg have only just begun recruiting for private equity, and that the Big Four are close to a sure thing.
Our data ranks Howard #80, the last school in this batch, on 328 top-bank analysts from 10,190 undergraduates, or 32.2 per 1,000; 91% 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 Howard publishes about outcomes
3 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.
Black Enterprise, Howard University Steps Up To Place Its Graduates In Lucrative Finance Careers
- Gift that created the HPS Center for Financial Excellence
- $10,000,000
- Share of senior investment bankers at global banks who are Black
- 0.5%
The Dig at Howard University, From The Mecca to Wall Street: Howard’s HPS Center is Shaping the Future of Finance
- Goldman Sachs Market Madness grant to the university
- $1,000,000
How Howard compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Howard investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs Howard University a target school for investment banking?
Howard University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #80 of the 100 schools we measure: 57 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 328 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Howard alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
57 Howard University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #83 count of the 100 schools ranked; 36 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 Howard as a target school?
For a few banks, yes: a Howard senior on the forums says Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Barclays recruit the most from campus, while Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Bank of America take cold networking. Our count ranks it #80 of 100.
What is the HPS Center for Financial Excellence?
A center created by a $10,000,000 gift from HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation to produce graduates for banking, investment and wealth management, and capital markets, with scholars programs, mentorship, and the Wall Street on Campus seminar.
What did Howard students win at Goldman Sachs?
The firm’s Market Madness case competition, worth a $1,000,000 unrestricted grant to the university, won by five first- and second-year students who then interned at NVIDIA, Blackstone wealth management, and Goldman Sachs.
How many Howard University alumni work in private equity?
186 Howard University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #83 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Howard University alumni work in venture capital?
52 Howard University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #78 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Howard University alumni work in hedge fund?
16 Howard University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #95 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Howard’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 Howard University 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, 300 (91%) are currently based in the United States and 28 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 10,190 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.
