Non-target school#64 of 100
Rutgers University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #64of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 12969% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 5341% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 926#46 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 25.3#82 per capita
- US-based
- 91%844 profiles
Is Rutgers a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataRutgers 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.
Rutgers investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Rutgers University'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 measure129
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview53
By count alone Rutgers University ranks #55 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Rutgers alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsRutgers 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from Rutgers
Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers is the club: it exists to place students in front-office seats in investment banking, sales and trading, research, and asset management at leading Wall Street firms, counts more than 1,100 alumni on Wall Street and more than 25 partner firms, calls itself the largest organization at the business school, bundles member résumés for senior alumni on the street, and says that in any given year the overwhelming majority of Rutgers students who land front-office offers are active members.
Road to Wall Street is the selective track: a three-year program for sophomores with a strong interest in the markets, established in 2012, with alumni and peer mentors, a full-time managing director who holds the CFA charter, and a stated aim of a 95% or higher placement rate. In 2018, 95% of participants were offered junior-year internships or full-time Wall Street positions at firms such as Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Prudential, and the school is raising a $10,000,000 endowment to let the program compete with Ivy League schools.
The program’s academic architect, finance professor Ben Sopranzetti, is described by the school as a legend for helping students get jobs, having placed more than 800 students on Wall Street and in financial services through his network while consulting for banks including Bank of America and Citibank.
Forum accounts call Rutgers a non-target with more avenues in than most: posters count roughly fifteen students a year into banking and as many into trading, note that Citi, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays have run Superdays on campus through the club, and describe Road to Wall Street placements as incredible for a non-target, including full-time seats in Evercore M&A and Goldman Sachs technology banking; a Baruch alumnus at a bulge bracket says Rutgers places notably better than his own school.
Our data ranks Rutgers #64 on 926 top-bank analysts, the #46 count in the country, from 36,588 undergraduates, or 25.3 per 1,000; 91% 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 Rutgers publishes about outcomes
6 figures, 3 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.
myRBS, Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers (LIBOR)
- LIBOR alumni on Wall Street
- more than 1,100
- LIBOR partner firms
- more than 25
Rutgers Business School, Road to Wall Street
- Road to Wall Street placement goal
- 95% or higher
- Participants offered internships or full-time Wall Street jobs, 2018
- 95%
- Endowment sought for Road to Wall Street
- $10,000,000
Rutgers Business School, Ben Sopranzetti
- Students Professor Sopranzetti has helped place in finance
- more than 800
How Rutgers compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Rutgers investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many Rutgers alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
129 Rutgers University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #55 count of the 100 schools ranked; 53 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 Rutgers as a target school?
No; forum consensus calls it a non-target with unusually many avenues in, through a club that runs bank Superdays on campus and a selective program whose placements posters call incredible for a non-target. Our count ranks it #64 of 100.
What is Road to Wall Street at Rutgers?
A three-year program for selected sophomores, established in 2012, with alumni and peer mentors and a full-time managing director; in 2018, 95% of participants were offered junior internships or full-time Wall Street jobs at firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citi.
How big is the Rutgers banking alumni base?
The Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers club counts more than 1,100 alumni on Wall Street and more than 25 partner firms, and the professor behind Road to Wall Street has placed more than 800 students in finance.
How many Rutgers University alumni work in private equity?
469 Rutgers University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #41 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Rutgers University alumni work in venture capital?
112 Rutgers University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #52 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Rutgers University alumni work in hedge fund?
174 Rutgers University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #13 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Rutgers’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 Rutgers University 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, 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.
