Lower semi-target school#54 of 100
Is 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.
- Rank
- #54 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 102 76% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 33 32% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 536 #68 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 175.5 #32 per capita
- US-based
- 484 90%
In the 36 to 60 band the pipeline still exists — every school here shows at least 92 analysts at the top banks — but it is thin enough that you have to build your own. Expect to source interviews through cold emails and off-cycle applications rather than campus recruiting, and expect the alumni you find to remember what that climb felt like.
What the numbers say
Richmond 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.
Across finance
University 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. The last column shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
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 Richmondin 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, 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.
