Lower semi-target school#36 of 100
Is Johns Hopkins University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Johns Hopkins University is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #36 of the 100 schools we measure: 229 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 1,348 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #36 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 229 72% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 131 57% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,348 #35 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 221.4 #25 per capita
- US-based
- 1,080 80%
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
Nearly three in five of Johns Hopkins's top-bank analysts sit at the elite five — 131 of 229, or 57 percent. Morgan Stanley alone accounts for 52, ahead of Goldman Sachs at 42 and J.P. Morgan at 41, while Bank of America contributes 24 and Citi 20. The shape is narrow at the top and drops off steeply below it, which is the opposite of a broad-based bank relationship.
Volume is where the school gives ground. Its top-bank rank of #40 trails the headline #36 by four places, and 229 analysts is a thin base beneath 1,348 profiles overall. The per-student leg props the blend up instead, and the broad density reading — #25 at 221.4 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates — points the same way. Recent share is 72 percent, 80 percent of the network is US-based, and private equity runs 35 profiles per 100 IB profiles.
The profile count includes anyone listing the school in education at any degree level, so 1,348 is not a count of undergraduate bankers, and the density figure inherits that inflation while dividing by undergraduate enrollment alone. The verdict is a modest banking network that skews hard toward the elite five.
Across finance
Johns Hopkins 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. The last column shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
Where its analysts go
Johns Hopkins University analysts at each of the top banks we measured — graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles. Banks with published feeder pages link through.
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 Johns Hopkins Universityin 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, 1,080 (80%) are currently based in the United States and 268 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 6,089 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.
