Lower semi-target school#54 of 100
University of Richmond investment banking placement: is it a target school?
University of Richmond is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #54 of the 100 schools we measure: 102 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 536 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #54of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 10276% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 3332% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 536#68 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 175.5#32 per capita
- US-based
- 90%484 profiles
Is Richmond a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataRichmond posts 175.5 IB profiles per 1,000 undergraduates, comfortably above the 97.8 median and enough for a per-capita rank of #32 against a #68 rank by network size. With 536 profiles from 3,054 undergraduates, the school produces banking alumni at a rate that most larger institutions in this tier cannot match, and the headline settles at #54 on the top-bank blend.
The count itself is thinner. Richmond holds 102 top-bank analyst seats, ranking #63 by top-bank count, and the blend's per-student leg lifts the headline nine places above that. Only 33 of those analysts sit at the elite five for a 32 percent share. The trend is healthier, with 78 of the 102 graduating in 2018 or later, a 76 percent recent share, and 90 percent of profiles remain US-based.
Venture capital is close to absent at 38 profiles and rank #88, with 7 venture capital profiles per 100 IB profiles, and private equity ranks #72. Richmond delivers respectable banking density for a school its size, with placement concentrated below the elite five and a narrow set of alumni paths beyond banking itself.
Richmond investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+University of Richmond'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 measure102
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview33
By count alone University of Richmond ranks #63 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Richmond alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsUniversity of Richmond’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 Richmond
A January 2024 university release reports that Poets&Quants ranked the Robins School #18 for the third consecutive year, #14 for career outcomes, #22 for academic experience, and #28 for admissions standards, and named it one of two schools reporting 100% employment for 2023 job-seeking graduates within three months of graduation.
The finance department runs a corporate finance track and a CFA track, a Lessing Trading Floor with 12 Bloomberg terminals, and a Student Managed Investment Fund valued at $1,000,000. The Finance Society, run by co-presidents who have been through recruiting, teaches a curriculum aimed at investment banking, sales and trading, asset management, and corporate finance internships, with guest speakers, points of contact at major banks, interview resources, Bloomberg and valuation lessons, and a mock portfolio competition.
Forum accounts put only a few students per class into New York banking and a few more into Charlotte, Atlanta, and Richmond offices, with most banking offers going to members of one selective campus club; posters from William and Mary say Richmond friends struggled to reach finance outside Virginia, others call it a semi-target with a southern, regional focus that rarely sends students to New York bulge brackets, and one suggests Davidson or Washington and Lee for better Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York placement.
The Richmond banking scene itself is a factor: a 2025 thread describes it as dominated by Harris Williams, with a cluster of boutiques formed when BB&T’s bankers declined to relocate to Houston, strong Piper Sandler and Jefferies offices, and a smaller but growing private equity and venture presence in firms like Apogem Capital and Blue Heron Capital, which gives students a local circuit before New York.
Our data ranks Richmond #54 on 536 top-bank analysts from 3,054 undergraduates, or 175.5 per 1,000, the #32 per-capita figure in the country from a raw count that ranks #68; 90% 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 Richmond publishes about outcomes
7 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.
University of Richmond News, Robins School of Business Ranked As a Top 20 Undergraduate Business School, Highlighted as Leader in Career Outcomes (January 2024)
- Poets&Quants rank, third consecutive year
- #18
- Poets&Quants rank for career outcomes
- #14
- Poets&Quants rank for academic experience
- #22
- Poets&Quants rank for admissions standards
- #28
- Employment of 2023 job-seeking graduates within three months
- 100%
Robins School of Business, Finance
- Bloomberg terminals on the Lessing Trading Floor
- 12
- Student Managed Investment Fund valuation
- $1,000,000
How Richmond compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Richmond investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs University of Richmond a target school for investment banking?
University of Richmond is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #54 of the 100 schools we measure: 102 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 536 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Richmond alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
102 University of Richmond alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #63 count of the 100 schools ranked; 33 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 the University of Richmond as a target school?
No by forum consensus, which calls it a regional semi-target that sends a few students per class to New York and a few more to Charlotte, Atlanta, and Richmond. Our count ranks it #54 of 100, with the #32 per-capita figure in the country.
How strong are Robins School career outcomes?
Poets&Quants ranked it #18 with 100% employment for 2023 job-seeking graduates within three months, one of two schools to report it, and #14 for career outcomes, by the university’s January 2024 release.
Which Richmond clubs prepare students for banking recruiting?
The Finance Society, with a curriculum built around banking, trading, and asset management internships and contacts at major banks, and the Student Managed Investment Fund, where students run a $1,000,000 portfolio.
How many University of Richmond alumni work in private equity?
244 University of Richmond alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #72 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Richmond alumni work in venture capital?
38 University of Richmond alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #88 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Richmond alumni work in hedge fund?
39 University of Richmond alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #70 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Richmond’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 University of Richmond 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, 484 (90%) are currently based in the United States and 52 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 3,054 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.
