Non-target school#75 of 100
Miami University (Ohio) investment banking placement: is it a target school?
Miami University (Ohio) is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #75 of the 100 schools we measure: 91 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 678 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #75of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 9171% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 4549% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 678#60 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 41.1#71 per capita
- US-based
- 93%632 profiles
Is Miami (Ohio) a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataHalf of Miami University's recent top-bank analysts landed at the elite five, 45 of 91 for a 49 percent share, so the school's presence at the largest banks skews toward the most selective of them rather than spreading evenly across the field. The 91 total ranks #73 on top-bank analysts, two places ahead of the #75 headline rank.
678 IB profiles rank #60 by network size, but 16,478 undergrads pull density down to 41.1 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against a 97.8 median, for a per-capita rank of #71. The network is strongly domestic at 93 percent US-based. Private equity ranks #64 with 275 profiles, working out to 41 private equity profiles per 100 IB profiles.
Recency is the soft spot, since 65 of the 91 top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later, a 71 percent share that leaves nearly a third of the cohort further back in time. Miami's alumni base is large enough and elite-weighted enough to be worth working systematically, and the outcome a student is aiming at plainly exists in the data.
Miami (Ohio) investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Miami University (Ohio)'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 measure91
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview45
By count alone Miami University (Ohio) ranks #73 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Miami (Ohio) alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsMiami University (Ohio)’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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from Miami (Ohio)
The Farmer School’s finance department says its majors are prepared for investment banking, consulting, corporate finance, investment management, and commercial banking, and its experiential spine is the Student Managed Investment Fund, known as Red Brick Capital, in which students research, analyze, and lead a diversified portfolio across two courses with alumni advisers, plus an annual intercollegiate stock pitch competition run with Cleveland Research.
Poets&Quants’ 2025 ranking placed the school #18 among public business schools, #7 in the Midwest, and #1 in Ohio, with a #7 for academic experience among publics, and a 2023 Wall Street Journal study using Burning Glass data ranked it #11 among public schools and first in Ohio for the salary premium of its management consulting graduates, at $7,764 a year on a $101,773 average.
The student paper’s take on that ranking is telling for banking: a junior who leads a fraternity consulting firm says the school ill-prepares students for competitive recruiting and that the people who really place well are placed out of clubs, because the clubs have members who know how to go through recruitment and can provide the resources; the dean answers with faculty engagement, career coaching, and global programs.
Forum threads are split: a 2023 poster claimed a strong year of banking placements at Goldman Sachs, Evercore, Guggenheim, and J.P. Morgan plus relationships with William Blair, KeyBank, and regional banks run by Miami alumni, and said the school consistently ranks on banking outcomes despite a modest brand, while skeptics replied that a Mid-American Conference school will never be a target; an older thread from a former banking club head says the school is not a target but dedicated students break in, with a huge Chicago alumni network and the club a must.
Our data ranks Miami #75 on 678 top-bank analysts, the #60 count in the country, from 16,478 undergraduates, or 41.1 per 1,000; 93% 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 Miami (Ohio) publishes about outcomes
6 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.
Farmer School of Business, Farmer School of Business again ranked among top 20 public undergraduate business schools (April 2025)
- Poets&Quants 2025 rank among public business schools
- #18
- Poets&Quants 2025 rank in the Midwest and for academic experience among publics
- #7
- Poets&Quants 2025 rank in Ohio
- #1
Miami University, Miami’s Farmer School of Business receives accolades for graduates’ high-paying jobs (April 2023)
- Wall Street Journal rank among public schools for consulting salary premium
- #11
- Annual salary premium for management consulting graduates
- $7,764
- Average yearly salary of those graduates
- $101,773
How Miami (Ohio) compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Miami (Ohio) investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs Miami University (Ohio) a target school for investment banking?
Miami University (Ohio) is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #75 of the 100 schools we measure: 91 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 678 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Miami (Ohio) alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
91 Miami University (Ohio) alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #73 count of the 100 schools ranked; 45 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 Miami University as a target school?
No; forum posters call it a non-target whose dedicated students break in through the banking club and a large Chicago alumni base, with one claiming a strong recent year at Goldman Sachs, Evercore, and J.P. Morgan. Our count ranks it #75 of 100.
What is Red Brick Capital at the Farmer School?
The Student Managed Investment Fund, in which finance students research, analyze, and lead a diversified portfolio across two courses under alumni advisers, alongside an annual intercollegiate stock pitch competition with Cleveland Research.
How does the Farmer School rank among public business schools?
#18 among publics, #7 in the Midwest, and #1 in Ohio in Poets&Quants’ 2025 ranking, and #11 among publics for the consulting salary premium in a 2023 Wall Street Journal study.
How many Miami University (Ohio) alumni work in private equity?
275 Miami University (Ohio) alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #64 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Miami University (Ohio) alumni work in venture capital?
68 Miami University (Ohio) alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #71 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Miami University (Ohio) alumni work in hedge fund?
42 Miami University (Ohio) alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #63 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Miami (Ohio)’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 Miami University (Ohio) 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, 632 (93%) are currently based in the United States and 46 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 16,478 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.
