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What Schools Does Wells Fargo Recruit From?
2,919 profiles list Wells Fargo alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. UNC Chapel Hill is the largest single feeder we measured, with 139 — 4.8% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
- Analysts, classes of ~2015+
- 2,919profiles matched to the bank
- Largest feeder school
- UNC Chapel Hill139 analysts
- Top feeder’s share
- 4.8%of all its analysts
- Ten largest feeders
- 26%758 analysts
- Schools published
- 3947% of analysts
Feeder schools, ranked
39 schools · classes of ~2015+Public profiles that list both Wells Fargo 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.
- 1UNC Chapel HillShare: 4.8%139
- 2University of VirginiaShare: 3.5%102
- 3Wake Forest UniversityShare: 3.1%91
- 4Washington and Lee UniversityShare: 3.0%89
- 5UC BerkeleyShare: 2.5%72
- 6University of Southern CaliforniaShare: 2.1%60
- 7University of Texas at AustinShare: 1.8%54
- 8Vanderbilt UniversityShare: 1.8%54
- 9Cornell UniversityShare: 1.7%51
- 10Duke UniversityShare: 1.6%46
- 11University of PennsylvaniaShare: 1.5%44
- 12Columbia UniversityShare: 1.3%38
- 13New York UniversityShare: 1.3%38
- 14University of MichiganShare: 1.2%34
- 15Georgetown UniversityShare: 1.1%33
- 16University of Notre DameShare: 1.1%33
- 17Baruch CollegeShare: 0.9%27
- 18Emory UniversityShare: 0.9%27
- 19Harvard UniversityShare: 0.9%25
- 20Southern Methodist UniversityShare: 0.8%24
- 21Yale UniversityShare: 0.8%22
- 22Northeastern UniversityShare: 0.7%21
- 23University of ChicagoShare: 0.7%21
- 24Brown UniversityShare: 0.7%20
- 25Villanova UniversityShare: 0.7%19
- 26Princeton UniversityShare: 0.6%18
- 27UCLAShare: 0.6%18
- 28Boston CollegeShare: 0.6%17
- 29Northwestern UniversityShare: 0.6%17
- 30Stanford UniversityShare: 0.5%16
- 31Babson CollegeShare: 0.5%14
- 32Dartmouth CollegeShare: 0.5%14
- 33Boston UniversityShare: 0.4%13
- 34University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignShare: 0.4%13
- 35Indiana University BloomingtonShare: 0.4%12
- 36WashU St. LouisShare: 0.3%10
- 37Middlebury CollegeShare: 0.3%9
- 38Johns Hopkins UniversityShare: 0.2%7
- 39MITShare: 0.2%5
Share is each school’s slice of all 2,919 Wells Fargo analysts in this era, not just the schools listed. Together these 39 schools account for 1,367 of them — 47% 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 Wells Fargo 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.
Wells Fargo recruiting FAQ
3 questionsWhat schools does Wells Fargo recruit from?
2,919 profiles list Wells Fargo alongside an investment banking analyst title, from the classes of roughly 2015 onward. UNC Chapel Hill is the largest single feeder we measured, with 139 — 4.8% of the total. This page ranks the 39 schools with published counts.
Which school sends the most analysts to Wells Fargo?
UNC Chapel Hill, with 139 alumni holding investment banking analyst titles alongside Wells Fargo from the classes of roughly 2015 onward, 4.8% of the total we count; University of Virginia follows with 102 and Wake Forest University with 91.
How concentrated is Wells Fargo’s analyst pipeline?
The ten largest feeder schools account for 758 of the 2,919 Wells Fargo analysts we count, 26%, and the 39 schools published here cover 47% 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”, Wells Fargo 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 Wells Fargo 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.
