Non-target school#85 of 100
Is 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.
- Rank
- #85 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 58 79% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 21 36% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 447 #77 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 23.1 #86 per capita
- US-based
- 388 87%
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
58 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.
Across finance
University 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.
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 University of Connecticutin 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, 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.
