Semi-target school#24 of 100
Is University of Texas at Austin a Target School for Investment Banking?
University of Texas at Austin is a semi-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #24 of the 100 schools we measure: 623 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 2,789 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #24 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 623 77% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 248 40% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 2,789 #16 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 65.7 #60 per capita
- US-based
- 2,447 88%
Schools ranked 16 through 35 place real numbers into top banks — at least 152 analysts each in this data — but the per-school pipeline runs thinner. Alumni will answer your emails, and the difference between getting an interview and getting skipped comes down to outreach volume. Start networking earlier than your target-school peers and treat every alumni conversation as a referral opportunity.
What the numbers say
Eleven places separate Texas at Austin's #13 rank by top-bank count from its headline #24, and the whole drag is the blend's per-student leg rather than the analyst record. That record rests on 623 analysts at the 18 firms, 477 of whom graduated in 2018 or later. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan sit within three people of each other at 82 and 79, with Citi's 67 and a 56-apiece tie between Bank of America and Morgan Stanley behind them.
Density tells the same size story: 65.7 profiles per 1,000 undergraduates against a 97.8 median, ranking #60 per capita, almost entirely a function of 42,444 undergraduates. Network size runs the other way at #16 on 2,789 profiles. The buyside network is deep, with 1,336 private equity profiles at #11 and 132 hedge fund profiles at #20, and 88 percent of the whole network is US-based.
A 42,444-student undergraduate base makes the per-capita rank nearly useless as a quality signal, since it measures accumulated profiles against enrollment and is therefore a scale comparison rather than a rate. The verdict: a top-fifteen network on the precise measure that the weighted rank pushes down by more than ten places.
Across finance
University of Texas at Austin’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.
Where its analysts go
University of Texas at Austin analysts at each of the top banks we measured — graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles. Banks with published feeder pages link through.
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 Texas at Austinin 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, 2,447 (88%) are currently based in the United States and 342 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 42,444 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.
