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What Schools Does Stifel Recruit From?
1,297 profiles list Stifel alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 38 — 2.9% of the total. This page ranks the 14 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 1,297profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- University of Virginia38 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.9%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 13%167 analysts
- Schools published
- 1415% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
14 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Stifel 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: 2.9%38
- 2University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.5%19
- 3UC BerkeleyShare: 1.4%18
- 4Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.3%17
- 5Dartmouth CollegeShare: 1.2%15
- 6Columbia UniversityShare: 1.1%14
- 7Harvard UniversityShare: 1.0%13
- 8Cornell UniversityShare: 0.9%12
- 9Boston CollegeShare: 0.8%11
- 10University of ChicagoShare: 0.8%10
- 11Yale UniversityShare: 0.7%9
- 12University of Notre DameShare: 0.6%8
- 13Duke UniversityShare: 0.5%7
- 14Stanford UniversityShare: 0.5%6
Share is each school’s slice of all 1,297 Stifel analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 14 schools account for 197 of them — 15% 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.
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3 questionsWhat schools does Stifel recruit from?
1,297 profiles list Stifel alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. University of Virginia is the largest single feeder we measured, with 38 — 2.9% of the total. This page ranks the 14 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Stifel?
University of Virginia, with 38 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Stifel from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.9% of the total we count; University of Pennsylvania follows with 19 and UC Berkeley with 18.
How concentrated is Stifel’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 167 of the 1,297 Stifel analysts we count, 13%, and the 14 schools published here cover 15% 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”, Stifel 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 Stifel 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.
