Lower semi-target school#50 of 100
Texas A&M University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #50of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 25182% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 6827% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 1,022#41 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 17.1#90 per capita
- US-based
- 90%923 profiles
Is Texas A&M a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataTexas 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.
Texas A&M investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Texas A&M 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 measure251
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview68
By count alone Texas A&M University ranks #37 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Texas A&M alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsTexas 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from Texas A&M
Aggies on Wall Street is the route. Mays calls it a flagship high-impact program that gives high-achieving students superior access to investment banking and asset management, helps them land a position at top firms in New York, Texas, or elsewhere, and runs on intensive coursework, field trips, and networking. It sits in the Adam C. Sinn Department of Finance alongside certificate tracks in private equity, commercial banking, corporate finance, and trading and risk, and applications for fall 2026 have closed.
A 2018 Texas A&M Foundation feature, when the program was in its 23rd year, describes 16 to 20 students chosen each year, a month-long seminar ending in a two-week New York trip that costs $3,000 and visits 35-plus investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms, with director Philippe Hercot, an executive professor of finance, drawing on more than 20 years in banking and private equity. Alumni named in the piece work or worked at Goldman Sachs, Citi, Keefe Bruyette & Woods, KKR, Blackstone, Barclays, William Blair, and JP Morgan.
Peak Frameworks ranks Texas A&M #42 of 60 overall and #31 by total hires, a lower semi-target lifted by its size: a presence score of 41% and an elite-firm share of 48% suggest broad representation across Wall Street without elite-boutique relationships, and J.P. Morgan takes 26% of its investment banking hires with Bank of America at 18%.
Forum guides to Texas schools describe Aggies on Wall Street as a high-intensity program with a placement rate near one hundred percent most years, paired with the alumni-run Horizons networking program, and call the school a semi-target or target for Houston energy banking with New York improving; estimates of the split range from half the banking cohort in New York to a heavy Houston and Dallas skew, with one poster counting thirty-plus students a year into banking. The consistent note is that A&M alumni pull hard for students who reach the upper programs.
Our data ranks Texas A&M #50, the last school in this batch, on 1,022 top-bank analysts, the #41 count in the country, from 59,933 undergraduates, the second-largest base of the 100 schools, or 17.1 per 1,000; 90% 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 Texas A&M publishes about outcomes
11 figures, 2 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.
Texas A&M Foundation Spirit magazine, High Stakes (Fall 2018)
- Program year in 2018
- 23rd
- Students chosen each year
- 16 to 20
- Cost of the two-week New York trip
- $3,000
- Firms visited on the New York trip
- 35-plus
- Director’s years in banking and private equity
- more than 20
Peak Frameworks, Texas A&M Investment Banking Placement
- Peak Frameworks rank
- #42 of 60
- Peak Frameworks rank by total hires
- #31
- Peak Frameworks presence score
- 41%
- Share of Peak-counted hires at the top firms
- 48%
- Share of Peak-counted hires at J.P. Morgan
- 26%
- Share of Peak-counted hires at Bank of America
- 18%
How Texas A&M compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Texas A&M investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many Texas A&M alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
251 Texas A&M University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #37 count of the 100 schools ranked; 68 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 Texas A&M as a target school?
A semi-target for Houston energy banking and a lower semi-target nationally: Peak Frameworks ranks it #42 of 60 with J.P. Morgan taking 26% of hires. Our count ranks it #50 of 100.
What is Aggies on Wall Street and how many students get in?
Mays’ flagship banking program: 16 to 20 students a year, by the foundation’s 2018 account, take a month-long seminar and a two-week New York trip visiting 35-plus firms, and fall 2026 applications have closed.
Where do Texas A&M bankers end up, Houston or New York?
Both; forum estimates range from an even split to a heavy Houston and Dallas skew, and Peak Frameworks’ LinkedIn count shows J.P. Morgan and Bank of America as the top destinations.
How many Texas A&M University alumni work in private equity?
456 Texas A&M University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #43 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Texas A&M University alumni work in venture capital?
105 Texas A&M University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #55 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Texas A&M University alumni work in hedge fund?
46 Texas A&M University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #60 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Texas A&M’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 Texas A&M 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, 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.
