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What Schools Does Citi Recruit From?
5,804 profiles list Citi alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 172 — 3% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 5,804profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Columbia University172 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 3%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 19%1,101 analysts
- Schools published
- 4038% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
40 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Citi 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 UniversityShare: 3.0%172
- 2Cornell UniversityShare: 2.7%156
- 3University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.9%113
- 4Harvard UniversityShare: 1.9%112
- 5Boston CollegeShare: 1.8%104
- 6Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.7%97
- 7UC BerkeleyShare: 1.6%94
- 8New York UniversityShare: 1.5%89
- 9Duke UniversityShare: 1.4%84
- 10University of ChicagoShare: 1.4%80
- 11Yale UniversityShare: 1.3%74
- 12University of Texas at AustinShare: 1.2%67
- 13University of MichiganShare: 1.1%66
- 14University of Notre DameShare: 1.1%61
- 15UCLAShare: 1.0%59
- 16University of VirginiaShare: 0.9%55
- 17Princeton UniversityShare: 0.9%53
- 18University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 0.9%51
- 19Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.8%48
- 20Stanford UniversityShare: 0.8%47
- 21Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.8%46
- 22Brown UniversityShare: 0.7%41
- 23Emory UniversityShare: 0.7%41
- 24MITShare: 0.6%35
- 25Southern Methodist UniversityShare: 0.6%34
- 26University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.6%34
- 27Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.6%32
- 28Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 0.5%29
- 29Baruch CollegeShare: 0.5%28
- 30Williams CollegeShare: 0.4%26
- 31Boston UniversityShare: 0.4%25
- 32UNC Chapel HillShare: 0.4%23
- 33WashU St. LouisShare: 0.4%23
- 34Northeastern UniversityShare: 0.4%21
- 35Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.3%20
- 36Villanova UniversityShare: 0.3%16
- 37Babson CollegeShare: 0.3%15
- 38Middlebury CollegeShare: 0.2%11
- 39Wake Forest UniversityShare: 0.2%10
- 40Washington and Lee UniversityShare: 0.1%7
Share is each school’s slice of all 5,804 Citi analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 40 schools account for 2,199 of them — 38% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set.
Which pipelines skew newest
Graduated 2018 or laterShare of each school’s Citi 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.
Citi recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Citi recruit from?
5,804 profiles list Citi alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 172 — 3% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Citi?
Columbia University, with 172 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Citi from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 3% of the total we count; Cornell University follows with 156 and University of Pennsylvania with 113.
How concentrated is Citi’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 1,101 of the 5,804 Citi analysts we count, 19%, and the 40 schools published here cover 38% 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”, Citi 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 Citi 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.
