Non-target school#68 of 100
University of Rochester investment banking placement: is it a target school?
University of Rochester is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #68 of the 100 schools we measure: 94 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 606 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #68of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 9468% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 3436% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 606#64 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 89.6#53 per capita
- US-based
- 74%448 profiles
Is Rochester a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataRochester's top-bank figure is 94 alumni matched to the 18 tracked banks by an investment banking analyst title, all from the 2013 class or later, with 64 of them graduating in 2018 or later. That places the school #69 on top-bank analysts, one place behind its #68 overall rank, so the headline and the large-bank record now say nearly the same thing.
Per-student depth is the network's stronger side. Rochester posts 89.6 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, close to par, and a per-capita rank of #53 that outperforms the #64 rank by network size, since 606 IB profiles come from only 6,764 undergrads. The elite five account for 34 of the 94 top-bank analysts, a 36 percent share.
Two figures argue for caution: 68 percent of the top-bank cohort graduated in 2018 or later, leaving nearly a third of it built before that window, and only 74 percent of profiles are US-based. Private equity sits at #81 with 193 profiles, or 32 per 100 IB profiles. Rochester supports a banking outcome, though the student does more of the sourcing work than the alumni base does.
Rochester investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+University of Rochester'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 measure94
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview34
By count alone University of Rochester ranks #69 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Rochester alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsUniversity of Rochester’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 Rochester
Rochester has no undergraduate business school; its Greene Center runs a finance career community whose investment banking page lists Barclays, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Moelis & Company, Stifel, TD Securities, and UBS as noteworthy employers, sets a 3.2 GPA minimum with 3.5 preferred for banking candidates, and notes that buyside seats usually follow a year or two in banking; its broader finance list adds Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Societe Generale.
The center’s Career Outcomes project, launched in 2017, publishes first destinations for Arts and Sciences and engineering graduates in an interactive dashboard rather than a written report, so the figures do not appear in text; the same page describes the consulting, finance, and marketing community the center runs for students in those fields.
The Meliora Finance and Investment Group is the student club: members join one of four sectors run by a student analyst director who teaches valuation and analysis at a professional level, and each sector selects and pitches a company for the school endowment at a semester-end stock pitch event, with no prior experience required to join.
Forum accounts call Rochester a good school with no banking on-campus recruiting: alumni at a few banks pull hard for its students, a couple of finance and banking clubs help with recruiting, and posters know students who landed bulge-bracket and middle-market offers by networking; a Rochester economics student adds that without a business school you get no help finding internships, and the standard advice is to network, keep the GPA up, and lead the investment group.
Our data ranks Rochester #68 on 606 top-bank analysts from 6,764 undergraduates, or 89.6 per 1,000, the #53 per-capita figure in the country; 74% 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 Rochester publishes about outcomes
1 figures, 1 sourceEvery 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 Rochester Greene Center, Finance
- GPA minimum the career center sets for banking candidates
- 3.2 (3.5 preferred)
How Rochester compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Rochester investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs University of Rochester a target school for investment banking?
University of Rochester is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #68 of the 100 schools we measure: 94 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 606 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Rochester alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
94 University of Rochester alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #69 count of the 100 schools ranked; 34 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 Rochester as a target school?
No; forum posters describe a good school with no banking recruiting on campus, where alumni pull hard for students who network. Our count ranks it #68 of 100, with the #53 per-capita figure in the country.
Which banks does Rochester’s career center point students to?
Its investment banking page lists Barclays, BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Moelis, Stifel, TD Securities, and UBS as noteworthy employers, with a 3.2 GPA minimum and 3.5 preferred.
What is the Meliora Finance and Investment Group?
Rochester’s student finance club, where members join one of four sectors led by a student analyst director and pitch a company for the school endowment at a semester-end event.
How many University of Rochester alumni work in private equity?
193 University of Rochester alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #81 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Rochester alumni work in venture capital?
73 University of Rochester alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #67 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Rochester alumni work in hedge fund?
51 University of Rochester alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #56 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Rochester’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 Rochester 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, 448 (74%) are currently based in the United States and 158 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 6,764 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.
