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What Schools Does Jefferies Recruit From?
2,758 profiles list Jefferies alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 105 — 3.8% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 2,758profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- University of Virginia105 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 3.8%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 17%481 analysts
- Schools published
- 1521% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
15 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Jefferies 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.
- 1University of VirginiaShare: 3.8%105
- 2Georgetown UniversityShare: 2.2%60
- 3University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.9%52
- 4Dartmouth CollegeShare: 1.8%50
- 5Cornell UniversityShare: 1.6%45
- 6Columbia UniversityShare: 1.6%43
- 7Duke UniversityShare: 1.2%34
- 8Stanford UniversityShare: 1.1%31
- 9UC BerkeleyShare: 1.1%31
- 10Harvard UniversityShare: 1.1%30
- 11Yale UniversityShare: 1.1%29
- 12New York UniversityShare: 1.0%28
- 13University of ChicagoShare: 0.8%21
- 14Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.7%20
- 15MITShare: 0.4%12
Share is each school’s slice of all 2,758 Jefferies analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 15 schools account for 591 of them — 21% 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 Jefferies 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.
Jefferies recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Jefferies recruit from?
2,758 profiles list Jefferies alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 105 — 3.8% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Jefferies?
University of Virginia, with 105 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Jefferies from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 3.8% of the total we count; Georgetown University follows with 60 and University of Pennsylvania with 52.
How concentrated is Jefferies’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 481 of the 2,758 Jefferies analysts we count, 17%, and the 15 schools published here cover 21% 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”, Jefferies 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 Jefferies 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.
