What Schools Does UBS Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

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 University2.5%104
• 2Columbia University2.2%92
• 3Boston College2.2%89
• 4Georgetown University2.0%81
• 5Harvard University1.7%70
• 6Yale University1.5%61
• 7UC Berkeley1.4%56
• 8New York University1.3%55
• 9University of Pennsylvania1.3%54
• 10UCLA1.3%53
• 11University of Chicago1.3%52
• 12University of Southern California1.2%50
• 13University of Michigan1.1%45
• 14University of Virginia1.0%43
• 15Duke University1.0%40
• 16Northeastern University1.0%39
• 17Northwestern University0.9%38
• 18University of Texas at Austin0.9%36
• 19Vanderbilt University0.8%34
• 20UNC Chapel Hill0.8%31
• 21Stanford University0.7%27
• 22MIT0.6%25
• 23Brown University0.6%24
• 24Emory University0.6%24
• 25University of Notre Dame0.6%24
• 26Baruch College0.5%21
• 27Boston University0.5%20
• 28Southern Methodist University0.5%20
• 29Princeton University0.5%19
• 30Dartmouth College0.4%18
• 31Middlebury College0.4%16
• 32Wake Forest University0.4%16
• 33Indiana University Bloomington0.4%15
• 34WashU St. Louis0.4%15
• 35Johns Hopkins University0.3%13
• 36Villanova University0.3%12
• 37Williams College0.2%10
• 38Babson College0.2%9
• 39University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.2%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

Share 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.

• 1Columbia University82%
• 2Duke University80%
• 3Cornell University79%
• 4University of Chicago79%
• 5Georgetown University77%
• 6Harvard University74%
• 7New York University73%
• 8Yale University67%

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 UBSrather 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.