BC vs. UNC vs. USC

t12inc
Thu, 03 May 2018 04:35:37 +0000

@Vincent1997 Im a bit confused where you are hearing that the Carroll School is less prestigious than UNC, especially in Business and even more especially in Finance (their strongest and most prestigious program by far). I’ve definitely seen a number of BC grads working in good groups in IB (among other things) on Wall Street, but much less so from UNC.

I would say that BC is a highly targeted recruiting school for BofA, Citi, UBS, DB, and Barclays, and a moderately targeted recruiting school for GS, JPM, and MS. Im not sure about Credit Suisse. BC also seems to get good coverage from the quality middle market and boutique firms, though the elite boutiques like to recruit from the top business ivys and Stanford.

Also, you should know that pay is standard in most banking jobs (but especially in investment banking) regardless of school. My undergrad was at a non HYPS target and I was offered essentially the same deal as all the other analysts regardless of whether they came out of Harvard and Penn or UMass. I wonder if some of the reason you are hearing bias towards UNC is that they have almost 2x the undergrads coming out and probably are more vocal in BC vs UNC threads.

That said, my friend who went to BC has often mentioned that if he had not liked the Carroll school he probably would have transferred… take that as you will.