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What Schools Does Morgan Stanley Recruit From?
5,987 profiles list Morgan Stanley alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 211 — 3.5% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 5,987profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Columbia University211 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 3.5%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 23%1,385 analysts
- Schools published
- 4047% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
40 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Morgan Stanley 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: 3.5%211
- 2Harvard UniversityShare: 3.1%188
- 3University of PennsylvaniaShare: 2.7%160
- 4UC BerkeleyShare: 2.4%141
- 5Cornell UniversityShare: 2.1%128
- 6University of ChicagoShare: 2.0%119
- 7New York UniversityShare: 1.9%114
- 8Yale UniversityShare: 1.9%114
- 9Stanford UniversityShare: 1.8%108
- 10Duke UniversityShare: 1.7%102
- 11Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.7%100
- 12University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 1.5%87
- 13Dartmouth CollegeShare: 1.4%86
- 14UCLAShare: 1.3%79
- 15MITShare: 1.2%73
- 16Princeton UniversityShare: 1.2%71
- 17Brown UniversityShare: 1.1%66
- 18Northwestern UniversityShare: 1.1%65
- 19University of MichiganShare: 1.0%62
- 20University of VirginiaShare: 1.0%60
- 21University of Texas at AustinShare: 0.9%56
- 22University of Notre DameShare: 0.9%55
- 23Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.9%52
- 24UNC Chapel HillShare: 0.9%52
- 25Northeastern UniversityShare: 0.8%50
- 26Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 0.7%41
- 27Boston CollegeShare: 0.7%39
- 28Middlebury CollegeShare: 0.5%32
- 29WashU St. LouisShare: 0.5%32
- 30Emory UniversityShare: 0.5%29
- 31Baruch CollegeShare: 0.5%28
- 32University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.5%28
- 33Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.5%27
- 34Boston UniversityShare: 0.4%24
- 35Williams CollegeShare: 0.4%23
- 36Southern Methodist UniversityShare: 0.4%22
- 37Babson CollegeShare: 0.4%21
- 38Villanova UniversityShare: 0.3%19
- 39Wake Forest UniversityShare: 0.3%15
- 40Washington and Lee UniversityShare: 0.1%6
Share is each school’s slice of all 5,987 Morgan Stanley analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 40 schools account for 2,785 of them — 47% 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 Morgan Stanley 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.
Morgan Stanley recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Morgan Stanley recruit from?
5,987 profiles list Morgan Stanley alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Columbia University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 211 — 3.5% of the total. This page ranks the 40 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Morgan Stanley?
Columbia University, with 211 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Morgan Stanley from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 3.5% of the total we count; Harvard University follows with 188 and University of Pennsylvania with 160.
How concentrated is Morgan Stanley’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 1,385 of the 5,987 Morgan Stanley analysts we count, 23%, and the 40 schools published here cover 47% 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”, Morgan Stanley 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 Morgan Stanley 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.
