What Schools Does Wells Fargo Recruit From?

Feeder schools, ranked

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 Hill4.8%139
• 2University of Virginia3.5%102
• 3Wake Forest University3.1%91
• 4Washington and Lee University3.0%89
• 5UC Berkeley2.5%72
• 6University of Southern California2.1%60
• 7University of Texas at Austin1.8%54
• 8Vanderbilt University1.8%54
• 9Cornell University1.7%51
• 10Duke University1.6%46
• 11University of Pennsylvania1.5%44
• 12Columbia University1.3%38
• 13New York University1.3%38
• 14University of Michigan1.2%34
• 15Georgetown University1.1%33
• 16University of Notre Dame1.1%33
• 17Baruch College0.9%27
• 18Emory University0.9%27
• 19Harvard University0.9%25
• 20Southern Methodist University0.8%24
• 21Yale University0.8%22
• 22Northeastern University0.7%21
• 23University of Chicago0.7%21
• 24Brown University0.7%20
• 25Villanova University0.7%19
• 26Princeton University0.6%18
• 27UCLA0.6%18
• 28Boston College0.6%17
• 29Northwestern University0.6%17
• 30Stanford University0.5%16
• 31Babson College0.5%14
• 32Dartmouth College0.5%14
• 33Boston University0.4%13
• 34University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.4%13
• 35Indiana University Bloomington0.4%12
• 36WashU St. Louis0.3%10
• 37Middlebury College0.3%9
• 38Johns Hopkins University0.2%7
• 39MIT0.2%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

Share 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.

• 1University of Chicago95%
• 2New York University92%
• 3Cornell University82%
• 4University of Pennsylvania80%
• 5Harvard University80%
• 6Duke University76%
• 7Columbia University76%
• 8Stanford University75%

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 Fargorather 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.