What Schools Does Barclays Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

Public profiles that list both Barclays 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.

• 1Cornell University3.0%107
• 2Columbia University2.9%105
• 3Georgetown University2.3%83
• 4Harvard University2.3%83
• 5Yale University2.3%82
• 6University of Pennsylvania2.0%72
• 7Princeton University2.0%71
• 8Boston College1.7%62
• 9UC Berkeley1.7%61
• 10Brown University1.6%58
• 11New York University1.6%57
• 12University of Texas at Austin1.3%47
• 13Duke University1.3%46
• 14Vanderbilt University1.2%44
• 15Middlebury College1.2%42
• 16University of Virginia1.1%40
• 17Northwestern University1.0%35
• 18University of Michigan1.0%35
• 19Wake Forest University1.0%35
• 20University of Chicago0.8%28
• 21University of Southern California0.8%27
• 22UCLA0.7%25
• 23Williams College0.7%25
• 24Baruch College0.7%24
• 25Dartmouth College0.6%22
• 26Indiana University Bloomington0.6%22
• 27Stanford University0.6%22
• 28Villanova University0.6%20
• 29Johns Hopkins University0.5%18
• 30WashU St. Louis0.5%18
• 31MIT0.5%17
• 32Boston University0.4%16
• 33University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.4%16
• 34University of Notre Dame0.4%13
• 35UNC Chapel Hill0.3%11
• 36Emory University0.3%9
• 37Washington and Lee University0.2%7
• 38Babson College0.2%6
• 39Northeastern University0.1%5

Share is each school’s slice of all 3,567 Barclays analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 39 schools account for 1,516 of them — 43% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set. 1 additional measured school fell below our 5-profile publication minimum.

Which pipelines skew newest

Share of each school’s Barclays 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.

• 1Harvard University84%
• 2Yale University82%
• 3New York University77%
• 4Columbia University75%
• 5Cornell University74%
• 6University of Chicago71%
• 7Stanford University68%
• 8Duke University65%

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”, Barclays 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 Barclaysrather 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.