Which banks hire the most NYU analysts?

By our count, J.P. Morgan leads with 142 NYU alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Goldman Sachs with 116 and Morgan Stanley with 114, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.

Do banks treat NYU Stern as a target or a semi-target?

A target by forum consensus, where every large bank recruits on campus. Our count puts NYU at #21, the top of the semi-target tier, because 738 top-bank analysts are spread across one of the largest undergraduate bodies we measure.

How competitive is banking recruiting inside Stern?

Very, by every forum account: the school allots a fixed number of bulge-bracket seats and hundreds of students compete for them. The clubs decide access to elite-boutique and hedge fund interviews; most banks stay open to everyone.

Can you get into banking from NYU outside Stern?

Yes, in small numbers. Forum posters say Stern is recruited far more heavily than the College of Arts and Science, and that a few CAS students land bulge-bracket seats each year.

How many New York University alumni work in private equity?

2,156 New York University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #4 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many New York University alumni work in venture capital?

679 New York University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #5 of the 100 schools in our database.

How many New York University alumni work in hedge fund?

403 New York University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #2 of the 100 schools in our database.

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New York University investment banking placement: is it a target school?

New York University is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #21 of the 100 schools we measure: 738 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 5,193 profiles that include an investment banking job title.

By Ben Chon, former J.P. Morgan investment banking analystUpdated 2026-10-16

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Rank: #21of 100 schools
At 18 top banks, 2015+: 73876% graduated 2018+
At the elite five: 36549% of the top-bank total
IB alumni network: 5,193#2 by profiles
Per 1,000 undergrads: 174.5#33 per capita
US-based: 79%4,112 profiles

TargetTarget 1–15Semi-targetSemi 16–35Lower semi-targetLower 36–60Non-targetNon-target 61–100

Schools ranked 16 through 35 place real numbers into top banks — at least 152 analysts each in this data — but the per-school pipeline runs thinner. Alumni will answer your emails, and the difference between getting an interview and getting skipped comes down to outreach volume. Start networking earlier than your target-school peers and treat every alumni conversation as a referral opportunity.

Is NYU a target school for investment banking?

The verdict, from the data

Nowhere in the top twenty-five does the broad network run further ahead of the headline than at NYU: #2 of 100 by raw profile count against a headline of #21, a 19-place gap. Scale drives the mismatch: 5,193 banking profiles, second only to Columbia's 7,500, spread across 29,760 undergraduates. The re-anchored headline rests on analyst seats at the 18 top banks instead, where NYU's 738 since the classes of 2013 rank #11 before per-student math pulls the blend down to #21.

Every vertical shows the same depth. The 403 hedge fund alumni rank #2 of 100 — within striking distance of Columbia's 416 — and at 8 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles, the tilt toward that corner of the buyside runs heavier than at any school ranked above it. Private equity adds 2,156 profiles at #4. Some 79% of the network, 4,112 profiles, currently sits in the US.

Scale cuts both ways in this data. A school this size will always post a big absolute count on an all-time measure, and 174.5 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates — above the median of 97.8, yet a fraction of Yale's 451.5 — is the more honest per-student picture. Verdict: an enormous, buyside-rich network that individual students share with an unusually large crowd.

NYU investment banking placement by bank

Analysts, classes of ~2015+

New York University 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.

Banks with fewer than five matched analysts, and banks not yet measured for this school, are left off the list. Of the 738 analysts at the 18 banks, 365 (49%) are at the elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview.

Where NYU alumni land beyond investment banking

Alumni profiles, all years

New York University’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 NYU

Stern publishes a full outcomes report. The Class of 2025 had 716 graduates and a 77.8% knowledge rate; 98.0% of those seeking full-time work were employed, 7.5% went on to graduate study, 81.2% of domestic placements were in New York, and average total compensation, base plus signing bonus, was $107,420.

Across the five classes from 2021 to 2025, investment banking took 30.4% of placements by industry, ahead of consulting at 11.1%, financial services at 10.2%, and investment management at 9.9%; by job function, finance was 52.9%. JPMorgan Chase hired 103 graduates over those years, Citi and Goldman Sachs 66 each, Morgan Stanley 56, Bank of America 53, Barclays 46, Evercore 27, and Deutsche Bank 26.

Stern's club system carries the recruiting. The Finance Society calls itself the premier professional organization devoted to financial services and one of the largest student-run organizations at Stern; the Investment Analysis Group manages NYU's only undergraduate investment portfolio; the Quantitative Finance Society and the Private Equity Group cover the rest of the map.

Forum consensus is that Stern is a target where every large bank and nearly every boutique recruits, with Centerview and Moelis the exceptions one poster names, and that the difficulty is internal: an incoming freshman describes hundreds of classmates competing for the few dozen bulge-bracket seats allotted to the school, and alumni say the least cutthroat students recruit best.

The same threads say the top clubs gate the elite-boutique and hedge fund interviews and a few bulge brackets, while most banks stay open to everyone; that Stern is recruited for New York and nowhere else; and that Stern students get far more looks than College of Arts and Science students, a few of whom still land bulge-bracket seats each year.

Our data puts the scale in view: 738 top-bank analysts is a large absolute count spread across 29,760 undergraduates, which is why the headline lands at #21, at the top of the semi-target tier, while forum posters argue about whether Stern belongs a tier higher. The bank breakdown above shows the firm split.

What NYU publishes about outcomes

18 figures, 1 source

Every 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.

NYU Stern Undergraduate College, Class of 2025 Career Outcomes Report

Graduates, Stern Class of 2025: 716
Knowledge rate, Class of 2025: 77.8%
Full-time job seekers employed, Class of 2025: 98.0%
Continuing education, Class of 2025: 7.5%
Domestic placements in New York, Class of 2025: 81.2%
Average total compensation (base plus signing bonus), Class of 2025: $107,420
Investment banking share of placements by industry, Classes of 2021–2025: 30.4%
Consulting share by industry, 2021–2025: 11.1%
Financial services share by industry, 2021–2025: 10.2%
Investment and portfolio management share, 2021–2025: 9.9%
Finance share of placements by job function, 2021–2025: 52.9%
JPMorgan Chase hires, 2021–2025: 103
Citi and Goldman Sachs hires, 2021–2025: 66 each
Morgan Stanley hires, 2021–2025: 56
Bank of America hires, 2021–2025: 53
Barclays hires, 2021–2025: 46
Evercore hires, 2021–2025: 27
Deutsche Bank hires, 2021–2025: 26

How NYU compares with schools ranked nearby

Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+

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NYU investment banking FAQ

8 questions

Is New York University a target school for investment banking?
New York University is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #21 of the 100 schools we measure: 738 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 5,193 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
Which banks hire the most NYU analysts?
By our count, J.P. Morgan leads with 142 NYU alumni holding investment banking analyst titles, then Goldman Sachs with 116 and Morgan Stanley with 114, among graduates of 2013 or later at the 18 top banks we measure.
Do banks treat NYU Stern as a target or a semi-target?
A target by forum consensus, where every large bank recruits on campus. Our count puts NYU at #21, the top of the semi-target tier, because 738 top-bank analysts are spread across one of the largest undergraduate bodies we measure.
How competitive is banking recruiting inside Stern?
Very, by every forum account: the school allots a fixed number of bulge-bracket seats and hundreds of students compete for them. The clubs decide access to elite-boutique and hedge fund interviews; most banks stay open to everyone.
Can you get into banking from NYU outside Stern?
Yes, in small numbers. Forum posters say Stern is recruited far more heavily than the College of Arts and Science, and that a few CAS students land bulge-bracket seats each year.
How many New York University alumni work in private equity?
2,156 New York University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #4 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many New York University alumni work in venture capital?
679 New York University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #5 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many New York University alumni work in hedge fund?
403 New York University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #2 of the 100 schools in our database.

How we counted NYU’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 New York University 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, 4,112 (79%) are currently based in the United States and 1,081 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 29,760 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.