Non-target school#97 of 100
Is University of Pittsburgh a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Pittsburgh is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #97 of the 100 schools we measure: 50 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 376 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #97 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 50 70% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 21 42% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 376 #84 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 14.9 #96 per capita
- US-based
- 329 88%
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
Pittsburgh ranks #89 on top-bank alumni against a headline #97, a position built on 50 people who graduated in 2013 or later and listed analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks. 21 of those 50, or 42 percent, are at the elite five, so over two-fifths of the group landed with the narrowest slice of that bank list.
Density is what sinks the headline rank, with the blend's per-student leg set against 25,171 undergraduates. The broad network shows the same shape: 376 IB profiles works out to 14.9 per 1,000 undergraduates against a median of 97.8, a #96 finish per capita, while raw volume ranks #84. 35 of the 50 analysts, or 70 percent, graduated in 2018 or later. 88 percent of profiles are US-based, with private equity at 63 profiles per 100 IB profiles.
The trend is positive without being dramatic, and 50 analysts across roughly a decade works out to a few per class from a student body of 25,171. The verdict is a broad general alumni network with a small and elite-weighted banking core inside it, which is a useful thing to know before assuming the headline rank tells the whole story.
Across finance
University of Pittsburgh’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.
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 Pittsburghin 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, 329 (88%) are currently based in the United States and 47 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 25,171 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.
