Non-target school#95 of 100
Is Syracuse University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Syracuse University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #95 of the 100 schools we measure: 46 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 434 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #95 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 46 83% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 18 39% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 434 #78 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 27.6 #81 per capita
- US-based
- 386 89%
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
Syracuse's alumni network is more buyside-weighted than its banking rank implies, at 62 private equity profiles and 12 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles. The 267 private equity profiles rank #67 and the 54 hedge fund profiles rank #54, both meaningfully ahead of the school's #95 headline rank in investment banking itself.
Banking at the largest firms is the narrower story. 46 alumni have worked as investment banking analysts at the 18 top banks since the 2013 class, ranking #91. Of those, 38 graduated in 2018 or later for an 83 percent recency reading, and 18 sit at the elite five. Density is 27.6 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against a 97.8 median.
434 IB profiles across 15,739 undergrads leaves the banking network small relative to the student body, and a 46-person top-bank cohort offers few direct precedents to follow. Syracuse gives a student a credible route into finance and a workable one into a large bank, provided the search extends well past what the alumni list hands over.
Across finance
Syracuse 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 Syracuse 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, 386 (89%) are currently based in the United States and 48 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 15,739 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.
