Non-target school#72 of 100
Pomona College investment banking placement: is it a target school?
Pomona College is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #72 of the 100 schools we measure: 57 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 181 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #72of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 5786% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 2646% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 181#98 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 108.8#46 per capita
- US-based
- 92%167 profiles
Is Pomona a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the data86 percent of Pomona's top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later, or 49 of 57, which is the group hired from roughly 2020 onward. That makes the school's presence at the largest banks a current phenomenon rather than an inherited one, and while Pomona ranks #82 on the raw count, the per-student leg of the blend lifts the headline to #72.
181 IB profiles from 1,664 undergraduates gives 108.8 per 1,000 undergraduates, above the 100-school median of 97.8 and good for #46 per capita. 26 of the 57 analysts, 46 percent, are at the elite five, while 92 percent of profiles are US-based. The buyside network is narrow, carrying 51 private equity profiles per 100 IB profiles and 3 in hedge funds, a #99 rank on both verticals.
The absolute figures stay small, with 181 profiles ranking #98 by volume, and a college of this size cannot produce large cohorts in any single field. What the data does establish is a per-student record strong enough to hold a #72 headline against a #98 volume rank, a twenty-six-place gap that runs almost entirely on density.
Pomona investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Pomona College'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 measure57
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview26
By count alone Pomona College ranks #82 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Pomona alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsPomona College’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.
How to recruit for investment banking from Pomona
Pomona’s First Destination Report for the Class of 2025, collected to NACE standards through the end of the calendar year, has 90% of the class engaged in jobs, internships, service, further education, or fellowships six months out; management consulting and financial services, which the college notes are not typical liberal arts destinations, make up 17% of the top industries, and Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo sit on the employer list beside Apple, Microsoft, and the Peace Corps. One graduate, now an investment banking analyst at Wells Fargo, credits the career office with helping him navigate finance recruiting from a liberal arts background.
Sagehen Capital Management, founded in 2001, is a student-run investment fund at Pomona open to all students of the Claremont Consortium; it manages approximately $1,300,000 of the college endowment with a value-oriented philosophy, and its analyst training program is open to students across the five colleges.
The career office’s alumni profiles include an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt who turned a degree in music and German into a banking career, offered as evidence that the liberal arts path can reach the industry, though he notes that banking is a finance-heavy role typically reached through an MBA at a prestigious school.
Forum threads treat Pomona’s banking recruiting as shared with Claremont McKenna and aimed at Los Angeles offices: firms come to Claremont to hire for LA, bulge-bracket LA offices take a few interns a year, Pomona sends few students to New York banking, and CMC students say they send far more people to banks while Pomona may hold a slight edge for consulting; the standard advice for a Pomona student who wants New York is to consider a Northeast liberal arts college with more alumni on Wall Street.
Our data ranks Pomona #72 on 181 top-bank analysts from 1,664 undergraduates, or 108.8 per 1,000, the #46 per-capita figure in the country from the #98 raw count; 92% 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 Pomona publishes about outcomes
3 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.
Pomona College, Pomona’s Class of 2025 Embarks on Careers, Further Education and Fellowships (February 2026)
- Class of 2025 engaged in career activities six months out
- 90%
- Management consulting and financial services share of top industries
- 17%
Sagehen Capital Management
- Sagehen Capital Management assets
- approximately $1,300,000
How Pomona compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Pomona investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs Pomona College a target school for investment banking?
Pomona College is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #72 of the 100 schools we measure: 57 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 181 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Pomona alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
57 Pomona College alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #82 count of the 100 schools ranked; 26 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 Pomona as a target school?
Only through Claremont: forum posters say Pomona’s banking recruiting is shared with Claremont McKenna and aimed at Los Angeles offices, with few students reaching New York. Our count ranks it #72 of 100, with the #46 per-capita figure in the country.
What share of Pomona graduates go into finance or consulting?
Management consulting and financial services together make up 17% of the top industries for the Class of 2025, with Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo among employers, per the college’s First Destination Report.
What is Sagehen Capital Management?
Pomona’s student-run investment fund, founded in 2001 and open to all Claremont Consortium students, managing approximately $1,300,000 of the college endowment with a value-oriented approach.
How many Pomona College alumni work in private equity?
93 Pomona College alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #99 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Pomona College alumni work in venture capital?
39 Pomona College alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #85 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Pomona College alumni work in hedge fund?
6 Pomona College alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #99 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Pomona’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 Pomona College 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, 167 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 14 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 1,664 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.
