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What Schools Does UBS Recruit From?
4,098 profiles list UBS alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 104 — 2.5% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 4,098profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- Cornell University104 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 2.5%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 17%715 analysts
- Schools published
- 3936% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
39 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both UBS 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%104
- 2Columbia UniversityShare: 2.2%92
- 3Boston CollegeShare: 2.2%89
- 4Georgetown UniversityShare: 2.0%81
- 5Harvard UniversityShare: 1.7%70
- 6Yale UniversityShare: 1.5%61
- 7UC BerkeleyShare: 1.4%56
- 8New York UniversityShare: 1.3%55
- 9University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.3%54
- 10UCLAShare: 1.3%53
- 11University of ChicagoShare: 1.3%52
- 12University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 1.2%50
- 13University of MichiganShare: 1.1%45
- 14University of VirginiaShare: 1.0%43
- 15Duke UniversityShare: 1.0%40
- 16Northeastern UniversityShare: 1.0%39
- 17Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.9%38
- 18University of Texas at AustinShare: 0.9%36
- 19Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 0.8%34
- 20UNC Chapel HillShare: 0.8%31
- 21Stanford UniversityShare: 0.7%27
- 22MITShare: 0.6%25
- 23Brown UniversityShare: 0.6%24
- 24Emory UniversityShare: 0.6%24
- 25University of Notre DameShare: 0.6%24
- 26Baruch CollegeShare: 0.5%21
- 27Boston UniversityShare: 0.5%20
- 28Southern Methodist UniversityShare: 0.5%20
- 29Princeton UniversityShare: 0.5%19
- 30Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.4%18
- 31Middlebury CollegeShare: 0.4%16
- 32Wake Forest UniversityShare: 0.4%16
- 33Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.4%15
- 34WashU St. LouisShare: 0.4%15
- 35Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.3%13
- 36Villanova UniversityShare: 0.3%12
- 37Williams CollegeShare: 0.2%10
- 38Babson CollegeShare: 0.2%9
- 39University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.2%8
Share is each school’s slice of all 4,098 UBS analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 39 schools account for 1,459 of them — 36% 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 UBS 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.
UBS recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does UBS recruit from?
4,098 profiles list UBS alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. Cornell University is the largest single feeder we measured, with 104 — 2.5% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to UBS?
Cornell University, with 104 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside UBS from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 2.5% of the total we count; Columbia University follows with 92 and Boston College with 89.
How concentrated is UBS’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 715 of the 4,098 UBS analysts we count, 17%, and the 39 schools published here cover 36% 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”, UBS 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 UBS 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.
