What Schools Does Citi Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

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 University3.0%172
• 2Cornell University2.7%156
• 3University of Pennsylvania1.9%113
• 4Harvard University1.9%112
• 5Boston College1.8%104
• 6Georgetown University1.7%97
• 7UC Berkeley1.6%94
• 8New York University1.5%89
• 9Duke University1.4%84
• 10University of Chicago1.4%80
• 11Yale University1.3%74
• 12University of Texas at Austin1.2%67
• 13University of Michigan1.1%66
• 14University of Notre Dame1.1%61
• 15UCLA1.0%59
• 16University of Virginia0.9%55
• 17Princeton University0.9%53
• 18University of Southern California0.9%51
• 19Northwestern University0.8%48
• 20Stanford University0.8%47
• 21Dartmouth College0.8%46
• 22Brown University0.7%41
• 23Emory University0.7%41
• 24MIT0.6%35
• 25Southern Methodist University0.6%34
• 26University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.6%34
• 27Indiana University Bloomington0.6%32
• 28Vanderbilt University0.5%29
• 29Baruch College0.5%28
• 30Williams College0.4%26
• 31Boston University0.4%25
• 32UNC Chapel Hill0.4%23
• 33WashU St. Louis0.4%23
• 34Northeastern University0.4%21
• 35Johns Hopkins University0.3%20
• 36Villanova University0.3%16
• 37Babson College0.3%15
• 38Middlebury College0.2%11
• 39Wake Forest University0.2%10
• 40Washington and Lee University0.1%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

Share 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.

• 1University of Chicago89%
• 2Harvard University81%
• 3Columbia University74%
• 4Cornell University74%
• 5New York University74%
• 6Stanford University72%
• 7Georgetown University71%
• 8Yale University66%

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 Citirather 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.