Lower semi-target school#50 of 100
Is Texas A&M University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Texas A&M University is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #50 of the 100 schools we measure: 251 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 1,022 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #50 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 251 82% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 68 27% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,022 #41 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 17.1 #90 per capita
- US-based
- 923 90%
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
Texas A&M ranks #37 on top-bank analyst placement against a headline rank of #50, a 13-place gap that is the largest positive spread in this tier, opened entirely by the per-student leg of the blend. The school shows 251 people in those seats among 2013 graduates and later, drawn from a total of 1,022 IB profiles, meaning close to a quarter of the entire broad network corresponds to a recent top-bank analyst.
The trend reinforces it, with 206 of the 251 analysts graduating in 2018 or later, an 82 percent recent share among the highest in this tier. Where the profile gives ground is composition: 68 people at the elite five is a 27 percent share, low for this tier, so the volume concentrates outside the most selective firms. The buyside is steady, with 456 private equity profiles at #43.
Per-capita reach is the lowest in this tier by a distance, at 17.1 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against the 97.8 median, because 1,022 profiles come from 59,933 undergraduates and the per-capita rank falls to #90. Texas A&M runs one of the tier's most active and fastest-growing top-bank pipelines inside an undergraduate population large enough to make competition for it intense.
Across finance
Texas A&M 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. The last column shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
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 A&M 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, 923 (90%) are currently based in the United States and 99 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 59,933 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.
