Non-target school#100 of 100
Is 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.
- Rank
- #100 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 16
- At the elite five
- 5 31% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 117 #100 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 19.3 #88 per capita
- US-based
- 110 94%
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
Seton 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.
Across finance
Seton 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.
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 Seton Hall 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, 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.
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