Lower semi-target school#60 of 100
Is Texas Christian University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Texas Christian University is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #60 of the 100 schools we measure: 115 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 415 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #60 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 115 77% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 37 32% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 415 #80 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 37.9 #73 per capita
- US-based
- 401 97%
In the 36 to 60 band the pipeline still exists — every school here shows at least 92 analysts at the top banks — but it is thin enough that you have to build your own. Expect to source interviews through cold emails and off-cycle applications rather than campus recruiting, and expect the alumni you find to remember what that climb felt like.
What the numbers say
TCU's 115 alumni at the 18 top banks rank #59 on that measure, one place ahead of the #60 headline, so the overall position reads almost straight off the top-bank record. Those 115 come from a total of only 415 IB profiles, so more than one in four of the banking network sits in a recent top-bank analyst seat.
89 of the 115, or 77 percent, graduated in 2018 or later, so the presence at large banks is recent rather than historical. The alumni base is 97 percent US-based. Private equity dominates the buyside side of the network at 255 profiles and 61 per 100 IB profiles, ranking #70, while density runs to 37.9 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median.
The elite five account for 37 of the 115 top-bank analysts, a 32 percent share, and venture capital ranks #95 with 27 profiles, so the network narrows sharply past the analyst seat. TCU's record at the largest banks is materially stronger than its broad network suggests — #59 on top-bank analysts against #80 by network size — and the #60 headline reads off the stronger of those two numbers.
Across finance
Texas Christian 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 Texas Christian 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, 401 (97%) are currently based in the United States and 14 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 10,937 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.
