Non-target school#68 of 100
Is 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.
- Rank
- #68 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 94 68% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 34 36% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 606 #64 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 89.6 #53 per capita
- US-based
- 448 74%
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
Rochester'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.
Across finance
University 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. 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 Rochesterin 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, 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.
