Non-target school#99 of 100
Is Providence College a Target School for Investment Banking?
Providence College is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #99 of the 100 schools we measure: 14 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 158 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #99 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 14
- At the elite five
- 6 43% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 158 #99 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 37.7 #74 per capita
- US-based
- 152 96%
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
14 Providence alumni listed an investment banking analyst title alongside one of the 18 top banks after graduating in 2013 or later. That is the smallest such count in the 100-school set, ranking #100. The number is small, and there is little value in presenting it any other way.
The rest of the file reads better than that count implies. 158 IB profiles from 4,191 undergraduates is 37.7 per 1,000 undergraduates, ranking #74 per capita against #99 by volume, and 96 percent of profiles are US-based. 6 of the 14 top-bank analysts, or 43 percent, are at the elite five, while private equity runs 78 profiles per 100 IB profiles.
With this few observations, the elite share rests on single-digit counts and should be read loosely rather than as a stable rate. The verdict is a banking network that reaches the largest firms rarely, though 14 people have managed it, and a profile base that treats those placements as exceptions rather than a pipeline.
Across finance
Providence 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.
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 Providence Collegein 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, 152 (96%) are currently based in the United States and 6 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 4,191 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.
