What Schools Does Goldman Sachs Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

Public profiles that list both Goldman Sachs 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.

• 1Harvard University3.7%299
• 2Columbia University3.1%255
• 3University of Pennsylvania2.6%208
• 4Yale University2.3%183
• 5Cornell University2.2%175
• 6UC Berkeley1.8%150
• 7University of Chicago1.7%137
• 8Brown University1.7%135
• 9Stanford University1.7%134
• 10Duke University1.6%129
• 11New York University1.4%116
• 12Dartmouth College1.4%113
• 13Princeton University1.4%110
• 14Georgetown University1.3%107
• 15MIT1.2%101
• 16UCLA1.1%89
• 17Northwestern University1.0%85
• 18University of Southern California1.0%82
• 19University of Texas at Austin1.0%82
• 20University of Michigan0.9%76
• 21University of Notre Dame0.9%71
• 22University of Virginia0.9%69
• 23Northeastern University0.8%68
• 24Vanderbilt University0.8%62
• 25Boston College0.7%58
• 26Middlebury College0.7%58
• 27UNC Chapel Hill0.7%55
• 28Williams College0.6%49
• 29WashU St. Louis0.6%47
• 30Southern Methodist University0.6%46
• 31Baruch College0.5%44
• 32Johns Hopkins University0.5%42
• 33University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.5%40
• 34Boston University0.5%38
• 35Emory University0.4%31
• 36Villanova University0.3%28
• 37Babson College0.3%27
• 38Wake Forest University0.3%26
• 39Indiana University Bloomington0.3%24
• 40Washington and Lee University0.3%22

Share is each school’s slice of all 8,114 Goldman Sachs analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 40 schools account for 3,671 of them — 45% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set.

Which pipelines skew newest

Share of each school’s Goldman Sachs 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 Chicago85%
• 2Duke University83%
• 3Harvard University78%
• 4Yale University78%
• 5Cornell University78%
• 6Columbia University77%
• 7New York University76%
• 8University of Pennsylvania75%

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”, Goldman Sachs 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 Goldman Sachsrather 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.