Lower semi-target school#56 of 100
Is Lehigh University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Lehigh University is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #56 of the 100 schools we measure: 116 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 598 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #56 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 116 67% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 43 37% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 598 #66 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 102.9 #50 per capita
- US-based
- 545 91%
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
Lehigh ranks #58 on alumni who have worked as investment banking analysts at the 18 top banks — two places behind the #56 headline, which the per-student leg nudges up — on a count of 116 people from the 2013 class forward. Measured against a total of 598 IB profiles, roughly one in five of the school's entire banking network shows up in a recent top-bank analyst seat.
Density clears the bar at 102.9 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates versus the 97.8 median, drawn from 5,811 undergrads. The alumni base is heavily domestic at 91 percent US-based. Hedge funds are the strongest buyside vertical, ranking #42 with 68 profiles and 11 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles, while the elite five hold 43 of the 116 top-bank analysts.
The recency figure is the honest caveat, since 78 of the 116 top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later and 33 percent of the group predates that window, while venture capital stays thin at #69 with 69 profiles. Lehigh hands a student a working alumni base inside the largest banks, which matters more at this rank than any single density reading.
Across finance
Lehigh 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.
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 Lehigh 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, 545 (91%) are currently based in the United States and 53 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 5,811 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.
