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What Schools Does Piper Sandler Recruit From?
1,444 profiles list Piper Sandler alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 35 — 2.4% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 1,444profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- University of Virginia35 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.4%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 14%204 analysts
- Schools published
- 1518% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
15 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Piper Sandler 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 VirginiaShare: 2.4%35
- 2Boston CollegeShare: 1.9%27
- 3University of Notre DameShare: 1.8%26
- 4Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.6%23
- 5University of ChicagoShare: 1.2%18
- 6University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.2%18
- 7Columbia UniversityShare: 1.1%16
- 8Yale UniversityShare: 1.0%15
- 9Cornell UniversityShare: 0.9%13
- 10Harvard UniversityShare: 0.9%13
- 11UC BerkeleyShare: 0.8%11
- 12Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.7%10
- 13Duke UniversityShare: 0.7%10
- 14Stanford UniversityShare: 0.7%10
- 15Princeton UniversityShare: 0.6%9
Share is each school’s slice of all 1,444 Piper Sandler analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 15 schools account for 254 of them — 18% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set.
Piper Sandler recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Piper Sandler recruit from?
1,444 profiles list Piper Sandler alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 35 — 2.4% of the total. This page ranks the 15 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Piper Sandler?
University of Virginia, with 35 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Piper Sandler from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.4% of the total we count; Boston College follows with 27 and University of Notre Dame with 26.
How concentrated is Piper Sandler’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 204 of the 1,444 Piper Sandler analysts we count, 14%, and the 15 schools published here cover 18% 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”, Piper Sandler 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 Piper Sandler 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.
