Lower semi-target school#59 of 100
Is University of Georgia a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Georgia is a lower semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #59 of the 100 schools we measure: 142 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 766 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #59 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 142 69% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 36 25% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 766 #56 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 24.3 #83 per capita
- US-based
- 732 96%
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
142 Georgia alumni are matched to the 18 top banks by an investment banking analyst title since the 2013 graduating class, ranking the school #49 by top-bank count, ten places ahead of its #59 headline rank. The gap is the blend's per-student leg working against a very large enrollment, and the count remains the number a student here should be quoting rather than the overall position.
Scale drives the count while the per-student math drags the rank. 766 IB profiles rank #56 by network size, but 31,514 undergrads reduce the ratio to 24.3 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against a 97.8 median, for a per-capita rank of #83. The alumni base is 96 percent US-based, so nearly the whole network is reachable domestically, and private equity ranks #58 with 304 profiles.
Only 36 of the 142 top-bank analysts, or 25 percent, sit at the elite five, and hedge funds rank #87 with 23 profiles. Georgia moves a lot of people into large banks; a student aiming specifically at the most selective firms is working against the grain of where this alumni base actually lands, and should plan the search accordingly.
Across finance
University of Georgia’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 University of Georgiain 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, 732 (96%) are currently based in the United States and 34 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 31,514 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.
