Non-target school#63 of 100
Is Tulane University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Tulane University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #63 of the 100 schools we measure: 100 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 688 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #63 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 100 79% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 41 41% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 688 #59 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 85.2 #56 per capita
- US-based
- 563 82%
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
Seventy-nine percent of Tulane's top-bank analysts graduated in 2018 or later — 79 of 100 people. Most of what the school has built at the largest banks has been built by classes that graduated within the last several years, so current students are looking at a pipeline that is active now rather than a legacy of older cohorts.
The absolute figures are modest. One hundred top-bank analysts ranks #67 against a headline of #63, a four-place shortfall, and 41 of those sit at the elite five for a 41 percent share. Density lands just below the bar at 85.2 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates versus the 97.8 median, ranking #56 per capita, with 688 profiles across 8,077 undergraduates.
The buyside network offers little differentiation, with private equity at rank #63 on 283 profiles and hedge funds at #64 on 41 profiles, and 18 percent of profiles sit outside the United States. Tulane's banking pipeline is small but currently in motion, and it will not carry a student the way a larger alumni base would.
Across finance
Tulane 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 Tulane 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, 563 (82%) are currently based in the United States and 125 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 8,077 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.
