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What Schools Does J.P. Morgan Recruit From?
9,048 profiles list J.P. Morgan alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 247 — 2.7% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 9,048profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Columbia University247 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.7%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 18%1,653 analysts
- Schools published
- 4038% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
40 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both J.P. Morgan 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: 2.7%247
- 2Cornell UniversityShare: 2.4%214
- 3Harvard UniversityShare: 2.2%200
- 4University of PennsylvaniaShare: 2.1%191
- 5University of ChicagoShare: 1.7%158
- 6New York UniversityShare: 1.6%142
- 7UC BerkeleyShare: 1.4%126
- 8Yale UniversityShare: 1.4%126
- 9University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 1.4%125
- 10Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.4%124
- 11University of VirginiaShare: 1.2%105
- 12Princeton UniversityShare: 1.1%100
- 13Duke UniversityShare: 1.1%97
- 14UCLAShare: 1.1%96
- 15MITShare: 1.0%86
- 16Stanford UniversityShare: 1.0%86
- 17University of MichiganShare: 0.9%81
- 18Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.9%80
- 19University of Texas at AustinShare: 0.9%79
- 20University of Notre DameShare: 0.9%78
- 21UNC Chapel HillShare: 0.8%71
- 22Baruch CollegeShare: 0.8%69
- 23Brown UniversityShare: 0.8%69
- 24University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.7%59
- 25Boston CollegeShare: 0.6%55
- 26Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 0.6%55
- 27Boston UniversityShare: 0.6%52
- 28Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.5%48
- 29Washington and Lee UniversityShare: 0.5%46
- 30Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.5%41
- 31WashU St. LouisShare: 0.4%39
- 32Northeastern UniversityShare: 0.4%38
- 33Williams CollegeShare: 0.4%37
- 34Emory UniversityShare: 0.4%34
- 35Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.4%33
- 36Southern Methodist UniversityShare: 0.3%31
- 37Wake Forest UniversityShare: 0.3%30
- 38Babson CollegeShare: 0.3%29
- 39Villanova UniversityShare: 0.3%25
- 40Middlebury CollegeShare: 0.3%23
Share is each school’s slice of all 9,048 J.P. Morgan analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 40 schools account for 3,425 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 J.P. Morgan 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.
J.P. Morgan recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does J.P. Morgan recruit from?
9,048 profiles list J.P. Morgan alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 247 — 2.7% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to J.P. Morgan?
Columbia University, with 247 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside J.P. Morgan from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.7% of the total we count; Cornell University follows with 214 and Harvard University with 200.
How concentrated is J.P. Morgan’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 1,653 of the 9,048 J.P. Morgan analysts we count, 18%, 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”, J.P. Morgan 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 J.P. Morgan 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.
