What Schools Does Bank of America Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

Public profiles that list both Bank of America and an investment banking analyst title, by school, for graduates of 2013 or later — the analyst classes of roughly 2015 onward. Profile histories are matched loosely, so the title and the employer are usually but not always the same job. Each school links to its full placement page.

• 1Columbia University3.0%200
• 2Harvard University2.6%169
• 3Cornell University2.4%157
• 4University of Pennsylvania2.2%144
• 5Georgetown University2.0%131
• 6UNC Chapel Hill1.8%121
• 7Yale University1.8%117
• 8University of Chicago1.8%116
• 9University of Southern California1.7%113
• 10Duke University1.6%107
• 11UCLA1.5%102
• 12University of Notre Dame1.5%96
• 13New York University1.4%93
• 14UC Berkeley1.4%92
• 15Vanderbilt University1.4%92
• 16Northwestern University1.3%84
• 17Stanford University1.2%82
• 18Brown University1.2%80
• 19University of Virginia1.2%80
• 20Dartmouth College1.1%73
• 21Indiana University Bloomington1.0%64
• 22University of Michigan0.8%56
• 23University of Texas at Austin0.8%56
• 24Baruch College0.8%55
• 25Princeton University0.8%55
• 26Wake Forest University0.8%54
• 27Boston College0.7%47
• 28MIT0.7%47
• 29Emory University0.6%42
• 30Northeastern University0.6%42
• 31Villanova University0.5%33
• 32University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.4%29
• 33Southern Methodist University0.4%26
• 34Johns Hopkins University0.4%24
• 35Washington and Lee University0.4%24
• 36Middlebury College0.3%23
• 37WashU St. Louis0.3%23
• 38Babson College0.3%21
• 39Boston University0.3%18
• 40Williams College0.2%12

Share is each school’s slice of all 6,590 Bank of America analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 40 schools account for 3,000 of them — 46% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set.

Which pipelines skew newest

Share of each school’s Bank of America analysts who graduated in 2018 or later — the classes hired since roughly 2020. A higher share means the pipeline leans recent; a lower one means it was built earlier.

• 1University of Chicago86%
• 2Yale University83%
• 3Columbia University79%
• 4Harvard University78%
• 5Georgetown University76%
• 6Cornell University72%
• 7Stanford University72%
• 8New York University68%

How we counted

Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. A person counts here when their profile lists the school in their education, a job title containing the phrase “investment banking analyst”, Bank of America as an employer, and a graduation year of 2013 or later. Those are four conditions on one profile, not on one job: the source flattens employment history, so we cannot confirm the analyst title was held at Bank of Americarather than elsewhere in the same person’s career. For most people here it plainly was, but read the figure as profiles matched to the bank rather than as a verified headcount. The title filter excludes other divisions — equity research, sales and trading, asset management, and wealth management titles never contain the phrase — along with summer-analyst internships. Data pulled 2026-08-25.

That loose matching matters most where a bank employs a large non-advisory workforce, since a profile can pair an analyst title from one employer with a different employer elsewhere in the same career. Wells Fargo is the clearest case on this list: its investment bank is run out of Charlotte, which genuinely does pull from the Carolinas and Virginia, but it also employs far more people outside investment banking than any pure advisory firm here, so read its regional skew as real in direction and probably overstated in size. People titled just “Analyst” are missed throughout, which deflates every bank evenly. Read the table as a ranking of pipelines rather than an exact census, and see the full school ranking for each school’s complete numbers.