Non-target school#64 of 100
Is Rutgers University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Rutgers University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #64 of the 100 schools we measure: 129 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 926 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #64 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 129 69% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 53 41% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 926 #46 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 25.3 #82 per capita
- US-based
- 844 91%
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
Rutgers shows 174 hedge fund profiles ranking #13, and 19 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles, a hedge fund mix few schools anywhere in the ranking match. That vertical rank sits 51 places above the school's IB rank of #64, which is the clearest signal in its data: the network's real strength lies in the funds rather than in the banks themselves.
Private equity follows the same pattern at 469 profiles and rank #41, or 51 private equity profiles per 100 IB profiles. On banking, Rutgers holds 129 top-bank analyst seats, ranking #55 by count, nine places ahead of the #64 headline once the blend's per-student leg weighs in, with 53 of those at the elite five for a 41 percent share. Ninety-one percent of all profiles are US-based, keeping the network domestically concentrated.
Two numbers temper the case considerably. Density is 25.3 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, ranking #82, since 926 profiles come from 36,588 undergraduates, and only 69 percent of top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later. Rutgers is a strong bet for reaching people on the buyside and a harder one for volume placement into top-bank analyst classes.
Across finance
Rutgers University’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 Rutgers Universityin 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, 844 (91%) are currently based in the United States and 82 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 36,588 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.
