Non-target school#61 of 100
Is University of Maryland a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Maryland is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #61 of the 100 schools we measure: 139 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 981 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #61 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 139 73% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 71 51% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 981 #44 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 32.1 #79 per capita
- US-based
- 831 85%
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
Fifty-one percent of Maryland's top-bank analysts work at the elite five, 71 of 139 people, one of the strongest quality mixes in this tier. Volume is not the school's argument, but the seats its alumni occupy are disproportionately at the most selective firms, which is a more useful signal for a student targeting those specific banks than a larger count spread across balance-sheet institutions.
The seat count itself ranks #51 on those 139 people, ten places ahead of the #61 headline, with the per-student leg giving the difference back. The buyside network is well distributed, with 453 private equity profiles at #45 and 81 hedge fund profiles at #35, both well ahead of the school's #61 headline, and 150 venture capital profiles at #43 alongside them. Eighty-five percent of profiles are US-based.
Per-capita reach is where it falls away: 981 profiles across 30,608 undergraduates gives 32.1 per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median and a per-capita rank of #79, and 73 percent of analysts being recent graduates puts the trend mid-pack. Maryland's banking alumni land well when they land, and the number of them doing so each year stays small relative to the student body.
Across finance
University of Maryland’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 University of Marylandin 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, 831 (85%) are currently based in the United States and 150 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 30,608 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.
