Is University of Notre Dame a Target School for Investment Banking?

Rank

#13 of 100

At 18 top banks, 2015+

572 79% since 2020

At the elite five

226 40% of top-bank total

IB alumni network

2,079 #20 by profiles

Profiles per 1,000 undergrads

231.8 #22 per capita

US-based

1,915 92%

Ranks 1 through 15 are targets, and every school in this tier has placed at least 521 analysts into the 18 top banks since the classes of roughly 2015. The pipeline is proven at scale and banks arrive on campus expecting to hire, so your job is to use the machine early. Reach out to alumni your freshman and sophomore years, because at a target the competition sits in your own classrooms.

What the numbers say

Seventy-nine percent of Notre Dame's 572 top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later — 454 people, hired from roughly 2020 onward. That weights the pipeline toward the most recent analyst classes rather than toward a legacy built decades ago. Bank of America leads the firm counts at 96, ahead of J.P. Morgan's 78, and Citi and Deutsche Bank tie at 61 apiece.

The strict anchor now works in the school's favor: a Target-tier headline of #13, with the raw top-bank count at #16 and the broad reads at #20 by network size and #22 on density. Its 231.8 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates run well past the 97.8 median. A 92 percent US share leaves little of the network abroad, and the buyside mix stays thin at 8 venture capital and 4 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles.

Recent share is measured by graduation year rather than by hire date, so 79 percent describes when people finished school and not when a bank actually made the offer. The verdict is a network whose overall standing now rests on the top-bank record itself: the analyst count ranks #16, and the per-student conversion pushes the headline to #13.

• #13Investment Banking—2,079
• #26Private Equity42863
• #39Venture Capital8169
• #32Hedge Funds483

Where its analysts go

University of Notre Dame analysts at each of the top banks we measured — graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles. Banks with published feeder pages link through.

• 1Bank of America96
• 2J.P. Morgan78
• 3Goldman Sachs71
• 4Citi61
• 5Deutsche Bank61
• 6Morgan Stanley55
• 7Wells Fargo33
• 8UBS24
• 9Barclays13

Nearby in the ranking

• 10University of Virginia748
• 11Dartmouth College521
• 12UC Berkeley835
• 13University of Notre Dame572
• 14Stanford University546
• 15Boston College569
• 16Brown University535

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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 Notre Damein 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, 1,915 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 164 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 8,968 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.