Below is a line to the largest Private Equity Firms:
http://www.bankersball.com/2007/09/2...ty-firms-2007/
The three largest (Blackstone, Carlyle and Bain) list personal information (including educational backgrounds) on all their employees. Below are links to each of their respective employee rosters:
http://www.blackstone.com/team/default.asp http://www.carlyle.com/Team/Alphabet.../item7697.html http://www.baincapitalprivateequity.com/team/index.asp
Those three Private Equity firms combined have a total of roughly 800 financial professionals (not including back office or support functions).
I am listing all universities with at least 1% representation. Many of those employees attended more than one of the listed universities. There are no real surprises here, but it is always fun to peek!
#1 Harvard University
-Blackstone 33
-Carlyle 80
-Bain 65
TOTAL: 178
#2 University of Pennsylvania
-Blackstone 26
-Carlyle 45
-Bain 14
TOTAL: 85
#3 Stanford University
-Blackstone 9
-Carlyle 26
-Bain 9
TOTAL: 44
#4 Columbia University
-Blackstone 16
-Carlyle 23
-Bain 4
TOTAL: 43
#5 Dartmouth College
-Blackstone 8
-Carlyle 12
-Bain 15
TOTAL: 35
#6 New York University
-Blackstone 10
-Carlyle 17
-Bain 0
TOTAL: 27
#6 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
-Blackstone 6
-Carlyle 14
-Bain 7
TOTAL: 27
#8 Princeton University
-Blackstone 4
-Carlyle 15
-Bain 7
TOTAL: 26
#9 University of Chicago
-Blackstone 12
-Carlyle 10
-Bain 3
TOTAL: 25
#10 Cornell University
-Blackstone 6
-Carlyle 13
-Bain 5
TOTAL: 24
#10 Yale University
-Blackstone 5
-Carlyle 11
-Bain 8
TOTAL: 24
#12 Duke University
-Blackstone 1
-Carlyle 14
-Bain 7
TOTAL: 22
#12 Georgetown University
-Blackstone 3
-Carlyle 12
-Bain 7
TOTAL: 22
#14 Northwestern University
-Blackstone 5
-Carlyle 14
-Bain 2
TOTAL: 21
#15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-Blackstone 1
-Carlyle 12
-Bain 5
TOTAL: 18
#15 University of Virginia
-Blackstone 3
-Carlyle 12
-Bain 3
TOTAL: 18
#17 University of Califiornia-Berkeley
-Blackstone 1
-Carlyle 13
-Bain 2
TOTAL: 16
#17 University of Texas-Austin
-Blackstone 2
-Carlyle 14
-Bain 0
TOTAL: 16
#19 Brown University
-Blackstone 1
-Carlyle 5
-Bain 4
TOTAL: 10