Non-target school#84 of 100
Is UMass Amherst a Target School for Investment Banking?
UMass Amherst is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #84 of the 100 schools we measure: 64 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 381 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #84 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 64 86% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 31 48% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 381 #83 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 15.9 #93 per capita
- US-based
- 333 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
64 UMass Amherst alumni listed an investment banking analyst title alongside one of the 18 top banks since the 2013 graduating class, and 55 of them, or 86 percent, graduated in 2018 or later. That performance ranks the school #78 on top-bank alumni against a headline position of #84, a six-place gap that is all the blend's per-student leg.
31 of the 64, or 48 percent, are at the elite five, a substantial share for a school ranked #83 by raw profile volume. Density is the thin spot: 381 IB profiles across 23,936 undergraduates is 15.9 per 1,000 undergraduates against the median of 97.8, or #93 per capita. The buyside network is substantial, with 82 private equity and 23 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles and a #31 hedge fund rank.
Set against 23,936 undergraduates, that analyst count is a thin per-student result, and the headline rank reflects that arithmetic honestly. The more useful reading is that the school's top-bank group is both larger and more recently formed than its overall placement conveys, and that gap is the figure worth weighing first.
Across finance
UMass Amherst’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 UMass Amherstin 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, 333 (87%) are currently based in the United States and 48 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 23,936 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.
