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What Schools Does RBC Capital Markets Recruit From?
2,484 profiles list RBC Capital Markets alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 62 — 2.5% of the total. This page ranks the 14 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 2,484profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Cornell University62 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.5%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 14%356 analysts
- Schools published
- 1416% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
14 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both RBC Capital Markets 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.
- 1Cornell UniversityShare: 2.5%62
- 2Duke UniversityShare: 2.0%50
- 3Columbia UniversityShare: 1.8%45
- 4University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.6%39
- 5Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.5%37
- 6New York UniversityShare: 1.2%30
- 7University of ChicagoShare: 1.2%29
- 8UC BerkeleyShare: 0.9%23
- 9Harvard UniversityShare: 0.9%22
- 10University of VirginiaShare: 0.8%19
- 11Yale UniversityShare: 0.6%15
- 12Stanford UniversityShare: 0.5%12
- 13Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.3%8
- 14Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.2%5
Share is each school’s slice of all 2,484 RBC Capital Markets analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 14 schools account for 396 of them — 16% of the bank’s analyst population. The rest came from schools outside our measured set. 1 additional measured school fell below our 5-profile publication minimum.
Which pipelines skew newest
Graduated 2018 or laterShare of each school’s RBC Capital Markets 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.
RBC Capital Markets recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does RBC Capital Markets recruit from?
2,484 profiles list RBC Capital Markets alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 62 — 2.5% of the total. This page ranks the 14 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to RBC Capital Markets?
Cornell University, with 62 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside RBC Capital Markets from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.5% of the total we count; Duke University follows with 50 and Columbia University with 45.
How concentrated is RBC Capital Markets’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 356 of the 2,484 RBC Capital Markets analysts we count, 14%, and the 14 schools published here cover 16% 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”, RBC Capital Markets 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 RBC Capital Markets 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.
