What Schools Does Morgan Stanley Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

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 University3.5%211
• 2Harvard University3.1%188
• 3University of Pennsylvania2.7%160
• 4UC Berkeley2.4%141
• 5Cornell University2.1%128
• 6University of Chicago2.0%119
• 7New York University1.9%114
• 8Yale University1.9%114
• 9Stanford University1.8%108
• 10Duke University1.7%102
• 11Georgetown University1.7%100
• 12University of Southern California1.5%87
• 13Dartmouth College1.4%86
• 14UCLA1.3%79
• 15MIT1.2%73
• 16Princeton University1.2%71
• 17Brown University1.1%66
• 18Northwestern University1.1%65
• 19University of Michigan1.0%62
• 20University of Virginia1.0%60
• 21University of Texas at Austin0.9%56
• 22University of Notre Dame0.9%55
• 23Johns Hopkins University0.9%52
• 24UNC Chapel Hill0.9%52
• 25Northeastern University0.8%50
• 26Vanderbilt University0.7%41
• 27Boston College0.7%39
• 28Middlebury College0.5%32
• 29WashU St. Louis0.5%32
• 30Emory University0.5%29
• 31Baruch College0.5%28
• 32University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.5%28
• 33Indiana University Bloomington0.5%27
• 34Boston University0.4%24
• 35Williams College0.4%23
• 36Southern Methodist University0.4%22
• 37Babson College0.4%21
• 38Villanova University0.3%19
• 39Wake Forest University0.3%15
• 40Washington and Lee University0.1%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

Share 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.

• 1University of Chicago94%
• 2Cornell University84%
• 3Harvard University76%
• 4Columbia University75%
• 5Yale University75%
• 6University of Pennsylvania73%
• 7New York University73%
• 8Duke University72%

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 Stanleyrather 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.