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What Schools Does Barclays Recruit From?
3,567 profiles list Barclays alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 107 — 3% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 3,567profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Cornell University107 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 3%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 22%784 analysts
- Schools published
- 3943% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
39 schools · classes of ~2015+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 UniversityShare: 3.0%107
- 2Columbia UniversityShare: 2.9%105
- 3Georgetown UniversityShare: 2.3%83
- 4Harvard UniversityShare: 2.3%83
- 5Yale UniversityShare: 2.3%82
- 6University of PennsylvaniaShare: 2.0%72
- 7Princeton UniversityShare: 2.0%71
- 8Boston CollegeShare: 1.7%62
- 9UC BerkeleyShare: 1.7%61
- 10Brown UniversityShare: 1.6%58
- 11New York UniversityShare: 1.6%57
- 12University of Texas at AustinShare: 1.3%47
- 13Duke UniversityShare: 1.3%46
- 14Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 1.2%44
- 15Middlebury CollegeShare: 1.2%42
- 16University of VirginiaShare: 1.1%40
- 17Northwestern UniversityShare: 1.0%35
- 18University of MichiganShare: 1.0%35
- 19Wake Forest UniversityShare: 1.0%35
- 20University of ChicagoShare: 0.8%28
- 21University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 0.8%27
- 22UCLAShare: 0.7%25
- 23Williams CollegeShare: 0.7%25
- 24Baruch CollegeShare: 0.7%24
- 25Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.6%22
- 26Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.6%22
- 27Stanford UniversityShare: 0.6%22
- 28Villanova UniversityShare: 0.6%20
- 29Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.5%18
- 30WashU St. LouisShare: 0.5%18
- 31MITShare: 0.5%17
- 32Boston UniversityShare: 0.4%16
- 33University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.4%16
- 34University of Notre DameShare: 0.4%13
- 35UNC Chapel HillShare: 0.3%11
- 36Emory UniversityShare: 0.3%9
- 37Washington and Lee UniversityShare: 0.2%7
- 38Babson CollegeShare: 0.2%6
- 39Northeastern UniversityShare: 0.1%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
Graduated 2018 or laterShare 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.
Barclays recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Barclays recruit from?
3,567 profiles list Barclays alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 107 — 3% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Barclays?
Cornell University, with 107 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Barclays from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 3% of the total we count; Columbia University follows with 105 and Georgetown University with 83.
How concentrated is Barclays’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 784 of the 3,567 Barclays analysts we count, 22%, and the 39 schools published here cover 43% of the bank's analyst population; the rest came from schools outside our measured set.
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 Barclays rather 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 2026-10-16.
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. The same caution applies to HSBC, a retail bank across much of the world. It applies to Raymond James and Stifel too, whose wealth-management arms dwarf their investment banks. 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.
