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What Schools Does Perella Weinberg Recruit From?
717 profiles list Perella Weinberg alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. UC Berkeley is the largest single feeder we measured, with 24 — 3.3% of the total. This page ranks the 13 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 717
- Largest feeder school
- UC Berkeley 24
- Top feeder’s share
- 3.3%
- Schools published
- 13 20% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
Public profiles that list both Perella Weinberg 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.
- 1UC Berkeley3.3%24
- 2University of Pennsylvania3.1%22
- 3Columbia University2.2%16
- 4Georgetown University2.0%14
- 5University of Chicago1.8%13
- 6Harvard University1.4%10
- 7Duke University1.3%9
- 8New York University0.8%6
- 9Northwestern University0.8%6
- 10Stanford University0.8%6
- 11Yale University0.8%6
- 12Cornell University0.7%5
- 13University of Virginia0.7%5
Share is each school’s slice of all 717 Perella Weinberg analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 13 schools account for 142 of them — 20% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set. 2 additional measured schools fell below our 5-profile publication minimum.
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”, Perella Weinberg 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 Perella Weinbergrather 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.
