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What Schools Does Lazard Recruit From?
2,238 profiles list Lazard alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Pennsylvania is the largest single feeder we measured, with 54 — 2.4% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 2,238profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- University of Pennsylvania54 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.4%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 18%402 analysts
- Schools published
- 1523% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
15 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Lazard 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 PennsylvaniaShare: 2.4%54
- 2Columbia UniversityShare: 2.4%53
- 3University of ChicagoShare: 2.2%50
- 4Harvard UniversityShare: 2.1%46
- 5Cornell UniversityShare: 1.7%39
- 6Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.6%36
- 7Duke UniversityShare: 1.5%33
- 8UC BerkeleyShare: 1.4%32
- 9New York UniversityShare: 1.4%31
- 10Northwestern UniversityShare: 1.3%28
- 11Yale UniversityShare: 1.2%27
- 12University of VirginiaShare: 1.1%25
- 13Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.9%20
- 14Stanford UniversityShare: 0.8%17
- 15MITShare: 0.6%13
Share is each school’s slice of all 2,238 Lazard analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 15 schools account for 504 of them — 23% 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 Lazard 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.
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3 questionsWhat schools does Lazard recruit from?
2,238 profiles list Lazard alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Pennsylvania is the largest single feeder we measured, with 54 — 2.4% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Lazard?
University of Pennsylvania, with 54 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Lazard from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.4% of the total we count; Columbia University follows with 53 and University of Chicago with 50.
How concentrated is Lazard’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 402 of the 2,238 Lazard analysts we count, 18%, and the 15 schools published here cover 23% 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”, Lazard 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 Lazard 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.
