Non-target school#100 of 100
Seton Hall University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
Seton Hall University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #100 of the 100 schools we measure: 16 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 117 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #100of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 16#99 by count
- At the elite five
- 531% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 117#100 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 19.3#88 per capita
- US-based
- 94%110 profiles
Is Seton Hall a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataSeton Hall closes the ranking at #100, and its 117 IB profiles are the smallest volume in the 100-school set as well. 16 alumni listed investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks since the 2013 class, ranking #99 on that measure.
Sixteen analysts is a thin base, so every rate derived from it should be read as indicative rather than stable. Density lands at 19.3 IB profiles per 1,000 undergraduates from a base of 6,061, well under the median of 97.8 but enough for #88 per capita. 5 of the 16, or 31 percent, are at the elite five, and 94 percent of profiles are US-based.
Hedge funds are the one vertical punching above the rest, at 33 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles and a #67 rank, yet the underlying totals stay in the low hundreds throughout the file. The verdict is a network that is small in every direction measured here, and one where each additional placement visibly moves the rates.
Seton Hall investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Seton Hall 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 measure16
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview5
By count alone Seton Hall University ranks #99 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Seton Hall alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsSeton Hall 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.
How to recruit for investment banking from Seton Hall
Poets&Quants’ profile, from its 2025 ranking, places Stillman #65 overall, #72 for admission standards, #63 for career outcomes, and #72 for academic experience, on a 71.3% acceptance rate, a 1289 average SAT, and a 77.2% six-year graduation rate; 72% of 2024 graduates completed a business internship, 97.9% had jobs within three months against 86% the year before, and the average salary was $69,849 with 21% reporting an $11,138 signing bonus. JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Raymond James sit on a top-employer list led by EY, KPMG, Deloitte, and Equitable Advisors.
The university’s career center reports outcomes on 1,195 of 1,380 graduating seniors, an 86.6% knowledge rate, and its 2022 survey found 98.5% of graduates employed within six months with a 98% graduate-school acceptance rate; International Business Times has named Seton Hall a top-five university for undergraduate internships, and the trading center’s page puts finance majors’ employment rate at graduation at 95%.
The Stillman trading room opened in fall 2004 with a $50,000 NYSE Foundation grant and was relaunched as the Center for Securities Trading and Business Analytics with 12 Bloomberg terminal seats for 30 students; more than 850 students use it each semester, including more than 500 finance majors and the Student-Managed Investment Fund, and Seton Hall’s CFA Institute Research Challenge teams have reached the regional final four 14 times in 17 years, taking top honors in 2006 and 2007 and the Americas title in 2017 and 2020. The Investment Club runs the donor-funded Hall Street Fund as a mock brokerage, and membership is required before the two-semester portfolio management course.
Forum verdicts are blunt: a 2017 poster choosing between Ivey and Seton Hall was told Seton Hall would do absolutely nothing for a banking career, another reply called it a definite non-target too far from Manhattan for a fall or spring internship, a 2007 thread told a prospective student to expect a big disappointment for even asking whether it is a target, and a transfer thread advised Rutgers because the poster had seen Rutgers graduates in banking but never one from Seton Hall.
Our data ranks Seton Hall #100, the last school in the ranking, on 117 top-bank analysts from 6,061 undergraduates, or 19.3 per 1,000, the #88 per-capita figure in the country; 94% 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 Seton Hall publishes about outcomes
19 figures, 5 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.
Poets&Quants for Undergrads, Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business
- Poets&Quants 2025 rank
- #65
- Poets&Quants rank for admission standards
- #72
- Poets&Quants rank for career outcomes
- #63
- Acceptance rate, fall 2024
- 71.3%
- Average SAT
- 1289
- Six-year graduation rate
- 77.2%
- Class of 2024 graduates with a business internship
- 72%
- Class of 2024 graduates with jobs within three months
- 97.9% (86% for 2023)
- Average salary, most recent graduates
- $69,849
- Graduates reporting a signing bonus
- 21% ($11,138 average)
Seton Hall University Career Center, Career Outcomes
- Graduating seniors with known outcomes
- 1,195 of 1,380 (86.6%)
Seton Hall University, Career Center Receives 2023 Innovation Award
- Graduates employed within six months, Class of 2022
- 98.5%
- Graduate-school acceptance rate, Class of 2022
- 98%
Seton Hall University, About the Center for Securities Trading and Analysis
- Finance majors employed at graduation
- 95%
- Bloomberg terminal seats
- 12 (room capacity 30)
- CFA Research Challenge regional final-four appearances
- 14 in 17 years
Seton Hall University, Center for Securities Trading and Business Analytics
- NYSE Foundation grant for the trading room, 2004
- $50,000
- Students using the trading room each semester
- more than 850
- Finance majors among them
- more than 500
How Seton Hall compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Seton Hall investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs Seton Hall University a target school for investment banking?
Seton Hall University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #100 of the 100 schools we measure: 16 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 117 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Seton Hall alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
16 Seton Hall University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #99 count of the 100 schools ranked; 5 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 Seton Hall as a target school?
No; forum posters say the school will do nothing for a banking career, call it a definite non-target too far from Manhattan for a school-year internship, and report never having seen a Seton Hall graduate in banking. Our count ranks it #100 of 100.
How do Stillman graduates fare after graduation?
97.9% of 2024 graduates had jobs within three months at a $69,849 average salary by the school’s Poets&Quants profile, and the university’s 2022 survey found 98.5% employed within six months.
What is Seton Hall’s trading room?
The Center for Securities Trading and Business Analytics, opened in 2004 with a $50,000 NYSE Foundation grant and expanded to 12 Bloomberg terminal seats, used by more than 850 students a semester including the Student-Managed Investment Fund.
How many Seton Hall University alumni work in private equity?
97 Seton Hall University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #97 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Seton Hall University alumni work in venture capital?
15 Seton Hall University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #99 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Seton Hall University alumni work in hedge fund?
39 Seton Hall University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #67 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Seton Hall’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 Seton Hall 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, 110 (94%) are currently based in the United States and 7 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 6,061 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.
