Lower semi-target school#59 of 100
University of Georgia investment banking placement: is it a target school?
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
- #59of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 14269% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 3625% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 766#56 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 24.3#83 per capita
- US-based
- 96%732 profiles
Is UGA a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the data142 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.
UGA investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+University of Georgia'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 measure142
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview36
By count alone University of Georgia ranks #49 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where UGA alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsUniversity 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. Per 100 IB shows the network mix: profiles per 100 IB profiles.
How to recruit for investment banking from UGA
UGA’s career center publishes employer and title lists by major, and the Class of 2025 finance list carries investment banking analyst titles at Citigroup 6 times and Raymond James 5, with more at Truist, William Blair, Wells Fargo, Jefferies, Harris Williams, Goldman Sachs, Centerview Partners, Houlihan Lokey, Piper Sandler, Barclays, and Bank of America. The same page tells finance majors that banking recruiting begins in the spring a full year before a summer internship and runs into midsummer, and points to the Corsair Society as the highly competitive route.
The center’s Class of 2022 finance summary covers 545 degrees with 318 responses, a 58% rate: 79% employed full time and 19% continuing education, a $74,500 median salary and $8,000 median bonus among those reporting, with BlackArch Partners and BlackRock among the employers. Terry’s Class of 2023 summary, 2,800 degrees at an 87% response rate, shows 79% employed full time, 14% in graduate school, and a $68,000 median salary.
The Corsair Society is the pipeline. Founded as a small informal group in 2006 by alumni and sponsored by the Honors Program with Terry, it selects students each fall for banking, trading, and consulting; a Terry-affiliated profile counted more than 100 recent graduates placed at top-tier banks and consulting firms through it, all 16 members who interned in 2014 receiving offers as seniors, and Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and McKinsey starting to recruit on campus as a result.
Adventis, the society’s financial modeling partner, says Corsair’s banking cohort admits 30 to 35 sophomores each fall and calls its reputation everything at a school that is not a traditional target: 34 Class of 2027 members piloted its certification in fall 2024 with over half certified, the Class of 2028 reached a 75% certification rate, and future members complete it in sophomore fall or over winter break before spring recruiting.
Forum accounts credit Corsair for Georgia’s alumni presence at every bulge bracket and many middle-market banks, describe a cohort in the mid-teens a year in an older thread with placement near one hundred percent into banking, consulting, and trading, and note that selections happen in the fall for students already in the internship hunt. In the Georgia Tech comparison, posters say Georgia gives the better long-term network and is the pick for a student set on banking or private equity out of undergrad.
Our data ranks UGA #59 on 766 top-bank analysts, the #56 count in the country, from 31,514 undergraduates, or 24.3 per 1,000; 96% 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 UGA publishes about outcomes
16 figures, 5 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.
UGA Career Center, What Can I Do With a Major in Finance? (Class of 2025 outcomes)
- Investment banking analyst titles at Citigroup, Class of 2025 finance list
- 6
- Investment banking analyst titles at Raymond James, Class of 2025 finance list
- 5
UGA Career Center, Class of 2022 Career Outcomes, Finance
- Finance degrees awarded, Class of 2022
- 545 (318 responses, 58%)
- Finance graduates employed full time, Class of 2022
- 79%
- Finance graduates continuing education, Class of 2022
- 19%
- Finance median salary, Class of 2022
- $74,500
- Finance median bonus, Class of 2022
- $8,000
UGA Career Center, Class of 2023 Career Outcomes, Terry College of Business
- Terry degrees awarded, Class of 2023
- 2,800 (87% response rate)
- Terry graduates employed full time, Class of 2023
- 79%
- Terry graduates in graduate school, Class of 2023
- 14%
- Terry median salary, Class of 2023
- $68,000
Battle Investment Group, The University of Georgia’s Corsair Society
- Recent graduates placed through Corsair
- more than 100
- Corsair members with 2014 internships who received offers
- 16 of 16
Adventis, Corsair Society at UGA Elevates Recruiting with Adventis
- Sophomores admitted to the Corsair banking cohort each fall
- 30 to 35
- Class of 2027 members in the certification pilot
- 34
- Class of 2028 certification rate
- 75%
How UGA compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+UGA investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs 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.
How many UGA alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
142 University of Georgia alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #49 count of the 100 schools ranked; 36 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 the University of Georgia as a target school?
Not a traditional target, as its own modeling partner puts it; the Corsair Society is the route, and forum posters credit it for Georgia alumni at every bulge bracket. Our count ranks it #59 of 100.
What is the Corsair Society at UGA?
A selective student and alumni society founded in 2006 with the Honors Program and Terry that trains cohorts for banking, trading, and consulting; a profile counted more than 100 recent graduates placed at top banks and consulting firms through it, and its banking cohort now admits 30 to 35 sophomores a fall.
Which banks hired UGA finance graduates in the Class of 2025?
The career center’s finance list shows investment banking analyst titles at Citigroup 6 times and Raymond James 5, plus Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Bank of America, Centerview Partners, Jefferies, William Blair, and Houlihan Lokey.
How many University of Georgia alumni work in private equity?
304 University of Georgia alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #58 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Georgia alumni work in venture capital?
53 University of Georgia alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #77 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many University of Georgia alumni work in hedge fund?
23 University of Georgia alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #87 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted UGA’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 Georgia 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, 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.
