<p>@Vengasso</p>
<p>“What are you smoking? Columbia and Duke are small private schools and even if the absolute number of grads going into consulting and banking were the same as Illinois or Michigan, placement percentages would be much higher at these two private schools given the large sizes of Illinois and Michigan. Please learn statistics.”</p>
<p>Sorry should have clarified. I specifically meant from the business school. 50-60/175 from finance majors is a competitive percentage. You can’t do the same for engineering since you don’t know how many may be interested in it, though that number is small. And since this thread is about engineering, suffice it to say that you can make it into those firms from any of those schools (and you will have to from any school). You are correct that Barcap isn’t historically a large hire of people from Michigan, though historically 2-5 are sent every year.</p>
<p>I’m only going to put a quick sentence on LSA since it has nothing to do with the OP, but LSA does send people to BBs FO, especially through econ and math majors. Not as many as the business or engineering, but it definitely does (though again majority in that school won’t care about finance so you can’t quantify percentage placements).</p>
<p>Again, this thread was about traditional engineering, and you will get opps from all of the schools, though you will find that very tech heavy and research companies only recruit more from larger state schools and schools with large resources dedicated to these things (MIT, Stanford, UCB, then UIUC, Umich etc.). Though again, as mentioned earlier by both Vengasso and I, it depends more on the person than the school.</p>