Lower semi-target school#51 of 100
Is University of Miami a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Miami is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #51 of the 100 schools we measure: 147 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 836 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #51 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 147 71% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 64 44% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 836 #50 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 64.9 #62 per capita
- US-based
- 729 87%
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
Miami's network carries 54 private equity profiles per 100 IB profiles, one of the richer private equity mixes in this tier, though well short of Bentley's 73. Those 455 private equity profiles rank #44, seven places ahead of the school's #51 headline, and the hedge fund side follows a similar pattern at 71 profiles and rank #41. The buyside presence consistently outperforms the banking presence.
On the measure the headline is now anchored to, Miami holds 147 top-bank analyst seats at rank #47, four places above the blended headline #51, with 64 of them at the elite five for a 44 percent share. Density runs below the bar at 64.9 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, ranking #62 per capita, and 87 percent of profiles are US-based.
The trend is the softest element, with 105 of the 147 analysts graduating in 2018 or later, a 71 percent recent share that sits toward the bottom of this batch and suggests the pipeline is holding steady rather than expanding. Miami offers a network that reaches further into private equity than into banking, with a workable if unexceptional top-bank presence behind it.
Across finance
University of Miami’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 Miamiin 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, 729 (87%) are currently based in the United States and 107 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 12,883 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.
