Non-target school#85 of 100
University of Connecticut investment banking placement: is it a target school?
University of Connecticut is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #85 of the 100 schools we measure: 58 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 447 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #85of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 5879% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 2136% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 447#77 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 23.1#86 per capita
- US-based
- 87%388 profiles
Is UConn a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the data58 UConn alumni listed an investment banking analyst title alongside one of the 18 top banks after graduating in 2013 or later, which ranks #80 and beats the school's headline #85 by five places. 46 of the 58 finished in 2018 or later, so the large majority of that group is currently inside or just past the analyst years.
447 IB profiles across 19,388 undergraduates gives 23.1 per 1,000 undergraduates against the median of 97.8, producing a per-capita rank of #86 alongside #77 by volume. 21 of the 58 top-bank analysts, 36 percent, are at the elite five. 87 percent of profiles sit in the United States, and hedge funds are the strongest vertical at #39, with 16 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles.
All-time, worldwide counting inflates the apparent scale, since the 447 figure spans decades and every firm on record, and the density number confirms banking is a minority path on a campus of this size. The honest summary is a mid-sized alumni network with a genuine top-bank component that has been actively refreshed in the last few analyst classes.
UConn investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+University of Connecticut'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 measure58
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview21
By count alone University of Connecticut ranks #80 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where UConn alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsUniversity of Connecticut’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.
How to recruit for investment banking from UConn
UConn’s career center reports that 91% of 2025 undergraduates had favorable outcomes six months out, 56% employed, 30% continuing education, and 5% other, on NACE standards, that graduates who used career services averaged $5,000 more in starting salary than those who did not, and that 77% of employed Connecticut natives stayed in-state; the full report sits in a data visualization sortable by school back to 2016.
The finance major page lists a $75,000 median and $110,000 high base salary for recent graduates, jobs such as a leveraged finance associate at Citi and financial leadership program analysts, and the on-ramps: the Finance Society, the Investment Banking Society, the Real Estate Society, a Bloomberg Market Concepts certificate offered in Storrs, Hartford, and Stamford, a finance-only academic internship course, and the Student Managed Fund.
The Student Managed Fund gives selected students a year of hands-on fiduciary management of real investment assets in their seventh and eighth semesters, with undergraduate teams in Stamford and Storrs of 10 to 12 members each under faculty advisers, and Bloomberg terminals on both campuses for the research behind their stock selection.
The forum thread for a UConn freshman is measured: a recent graduate says placement has clearly improved in the last five years, even if much of it is into smaller banks, and that there are a decent number of alumni across firms who help students who arrive prepared and knowledgeable about the field they want to enter.
Our data ranks UConn #85 on 447 top-bank analysts from 19,388 undergraduates, or 23.1 per 1,000; 87% 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 UConn publishes about outcomes
9 figures, 3 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.
UConn Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills, 2025 Undergraduate Outcomes at a Glance
- 2025 undergraduates with favorable outcomes at six months
- 91%
- Employed, 2025 undergraduates
- 56%
- Continuing education, 2025 undergraduates
- 30%
- Other outcomes, 2025 undergraduates
- 5%
- Starting salary premium for graduates who used career services
- $5,000
- Employed Connecticut natives who stayed in-state
- 77%
UConn School of Business, Finance major
- Median base salary, recent finance graduates
- $75,000
- High base salary, recent finance graduates
- $110,000
UConn School of Business, Student Managed Fund
- Student Managed Fund team size
- 10 to 12 members
How UConn compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+UConn investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs University of Connecticut a target school for investment banking?
University of Connecticut is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #85 of the 100 schools we measure: 58 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 447 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many UConn alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
58 University of Connecticut alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #80 count of the 100 schools ranked; 21 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 UConn as a target school?
No; a recent graduate on the forums describes placement that has improved over five years, much of it into smaller banks, driven by alumni who help prepared students. Our count ranks it #85 of 100.
What is the UConn Student Managed Fund?
A year-long program in students’ seventh and eighth semesters that has teams of 10 to 12 undergraduates in Stamford and Storrs manage real investment assets under faculty advisers, with Bloomberg terminals on both campuses.
What do UConn finance graduates earn?
A $75,000 median and $110,000 high base salary by the finance major page, with 91% of all 2025 undergraduates reporting favorable outcomes six months after graduation.
How many University of Connecticut alumni work in private equity?
271 University of Connecticut alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #66 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Connecticut alumni work in venture capital?
80 University of Connecticut alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #64 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Connecticut alumni work in hedge fund?
73 University of Connecticut alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #39 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted UConn’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 University of Connecticut 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, 388 (87%) are currently based in the United States and 59 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 19,388 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.
