Non-target school#75 of 100
Is 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.
- Rank
- #75 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 91 71% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 45 49% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 678 #60 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 41.1 #71 per capita
- US-based
- 632 93%
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
Half 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.
Across finance
Miami 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. 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 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 2026-08-25.
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, 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.
