Sam Lee

ucb,
the wildcats just made the last-min field goal to tie the game!!!

Alexandre

Pesky Wildcats!

Alexandre

PimpDaddy (I feel ridiculous addressing you!), one should not look at the list as a ranking of a university. Indeed, some amazing universities, like Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Swarthmore etc... have very few alums working in those organizations. Some schools are just less likely to attract students interested in a future in Finance.

This said, I intend to go through the 1,000 or so links over again to break it down by undergrad and graduate alums. Give me a few days. As the HR Director of PE firm myself, I tend to get busy!

UCBChemEGrad

Well, then I demand a recount!

UCBChemEGrad

That is indeed a very rare occasion for the Mildcats, no?

Sam Lee

^typical chemE nerd that don't follow football? the wildcats have been known as cardiac cats! i am sure alexandre remembers that.

HuskersHQ: Northwestern's 'Cardiac 'Cats' never give up 12/29/00

UCBChemEGrad

Actually, college football is my favorite sport...nothing else like it. It's just Northwestern games aren't typically on the radar screen here in L.A.

Wow, 3 games...in 1999 no less. At least you guys went to the Rose Bowl...which is more than I can say for my Bears.

sakky

Hey, don't laugh at NU. They've been to the Rose Bowl far more recently than Cal has. Cal hasn't smelled roses for nearly 50 years now. In fact, sadly, that's the longest Rose Bowl drought of any team in the Big 10 or Pac 10 (except for Arizona, which has never gone to the Rose Bowl, but Arizona didn't even join the Pac-10 until 1978).

Sam Lee

that was 2000. i admit they are not consistently good but when they do overachieve, they do so with a lot of drama. it's not uncommon that they win games in this fashion! when they are competitive, their offense is awesome while their defense remains mediocre...so it's a lot of fun to watch because they beat you not by stopping you but by scoring more than you.

by the way, they've accomplished all that with virtually identical graduate rate as the rest of the student body. can't help bragging on this one!

Sam Lee

lol! take that from your fellow alum, ucb.

UCBChemEGrad

^ whatever, thats why we have blogs on Cal football titled "A Rose Bowl Before I Die!" Hopefully Tedford can keep some momentum...if only we can send Pete Carroll to the NFL, we'd have a shot once in a while.

sakky

Pete Carroll's been at 'SC since 2000. So, sure, I can perhaps understand why Cal hasn't "Rose" since that time. But that doesn't explain the remaining 40 years of that god-damned drought.

PimpDaddy1

That would be greatly appreciated, thanks alexandre! (and I sent you a PM if you have the time)

Alexandre

I have just completed a thorough analysis of of each of the 1,000 or so profiles, carefully segragating undergraduate from graduate degrees and I have come up with the following numbers. Again, the results aren't surprising (with a couple of exceptions like Stanford).

Below, I provide a breakdown of alums into undergraduate and graduate degrees from the 6 PE firms mentioned above (Blackstone, Carlyle, Bain, Silverlake, Warburg and PEP). In cases where an employee receives undergraduate and graduate degrees from the same institution, I only count the undergraduate degree. I only included US colleges and universities with at least 5 undergraduate representatives.

Please keep in mind this does not constitute an academic ranking. There are too few representatives from any one university (save perhaps Harvard) to draw any reasonable conclusion from the stats below.

#1 Harvard University
Undergraduate: 62
Graduate: 165
TOTAL: 227 (#1 overall)

#2 University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate: 61
Graduate: 52
TOTAL: 113 (#2 overall)

#3 Princeton University
Undergraduate: 35
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 36 (#6 overall)

#4 Dartmouth College
Undergraduate: 27
Graduate: 11
Total: 38 (#5 overall)

#5 Duke University
Undergraduate: 24
Graduate: 7
TOTAL: 31 (#8 overall)

#6 Cornell University
Undergraduate: 23
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 29 (#12 overall)

#7 Yale University
Undergraduate: 22
Graduate: 8
TOTAL: 30 (#10 overall)

#8 Georgetown University
Undergraduate: 21
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 27 (#14 overall)

#9 University of California-Berkeley
Undergraduate: 20
Graduate: 6
TOTAL: 26 (#15 overall)

#10 Stanford University
Undergraduate: 17
Graduate: 48
TOTAL: 65 (#3 overall)

#10 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Undergraduate: 17
Graduate: 14
TOTAL: 31 (#8 overall)

#12 Brown University
Undergraduate: 16
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 17 (#18 overall)

#13 Columbia University
Undergraduate: 15
Graduate: 33
TOTAL: 48 (#4 overall)

#14 University of Virginia
Undergraduate: 12
Graduate: 9
TOTAL: 21 (#16 overall)

#15 New York University
Undergraduate: 11
Graduate: 21
TOTAL: 32 (#7 overall)

#16 Boston College
Undergraduate: 10
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 10 (#20 overall)

#17 University of Texas-Austin
Undergraduate: 9
Graduate: 9
TOTAL: 18 (#17 overall)

#18 Northwestern University
Undergraduate: 7
Graduate: 21
TOTAL: 28 (#13 overall)

#18 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Undergraduate: 7
Graduate: 4
TOTAL: 11 (#19 overall)

#20 Emory University
Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6

#20 University of Chicago
Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 24
TOTAL: 30 (#10 overall)

#20 University of Notre Dame
Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6

#20 Williams College
Undergraduate: 6
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 6

#24 Middlebury College
Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5

#24 Syracuse University
Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 1
TOTAL: 6

#24 University of California-Los Angeles
Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 4
TOTAL: 9

#24 Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5

#24 Washington & Lee University
Undergraduate: 5
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 5

#29 SUNY system (including Albany, Binghampton and Oswego):
Undergraduate: 12
Graduate: 3
TOTAL: 15

#30 United States Academies (Air Force, Military and Naval combined)
Undergraduate: 10
Graduate: 0
TOTAL: 10

UCBChemEGrad

^ Nice.

Thanks for the work.