<p>What is the best undergraduate major for getting hired for Mergers & Acquisitions?</p>
<pre><code>* Accounting
<p>Finance and Accounting. do dual concentration</p>
<p>get an Economics major as well.</p>
<p>liberal arts at an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>There is no major or university that will secure a job in an M&A department. One does not have to major in Business (Finance or Accounting) to land a job in IBanking or M&A. I would say going to any elite university (not just the Ivies) helps, but it also depends greatly on a person’s profile (temperment, composure, presence, background, general culture etc…). Here are a few universities where if you do well in school, regardless of the major, and take a proactive approach to your job search, M&A jobs could open up:</p>
<p>My personal top 25 campuses for future Investment Bankers:
Amherst College
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Haverford College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>Here are a few others that are also effective:
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Davidson College
Emory University
Grinnell College
Johns Hopkins University
Pomona College
Rice University
Tufts University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Washington and Lee University
Washington University
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Alexandre, what do you think about Indiana? Ohio State?</p>
<p>Congratulations on your engagement.</p>
<p>Thanks for the congratulations. </p>
<p>Indiana is one of my favorite schools. I love Bloomington, Indiana’s campus and the general atmosphere. But I would not recommend Indiana (even Kelley) to a student who really wants to go into Investment Banking. Of course, a student can get an awesome education at Indiana and land a job with an Investment Bank, but if we are talking about maximizing one’s chances, Indiana is not the way to go.</p>
<p>As for OSU, they had the nerve to beat us this year (4th time in 5 years), so I am a little touchy when it comes to the Bucknuts! hehe</p>
<p>Alexandre, what do you think the recruiting is like at Kelley for other fields related to the stock market besides investment banking? Everyone can’t get into Michigan. Indiana looks pretty nice on the web, and they have tons of classes. They even have a market making class (in stocks) which I haven’t seen anywhere else.</p>
<p>As for Ohio State, my son flew to Michigan to visit his sister and watch the “Big Game”. It was a bummer.</p>
<p>Kelley is a top 15 Business school, so clearly, the opportunities will present themselves. The huge accounting firms (KPMG, D&T, PwC etc…) love recruiting at Kelley, as do many of the large manufacturing firms like Ford, P&G etc… Also, many of the big banks, like Citigroup, Bank of America, Wakovia, Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo etc…actively recruit at Kelley. Below is a link that tells you where Kelley students ended up after graduation. The list is impressive indeed.</p>
<p><a href=“http://ucso.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/ReportCenter/annual_reports/2004_2005.doc[/url]”>http://ucso.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/ReportCenter/annual_reports/2004_2005.doc</a></p>
<p>Alexandre: i think UVA should be in the first group. in term of recruiting, we definitely beat that of “haverford college” or notre dame and several other universities/colleges in the first group. give me some reasons why you put it in the second group. it’s way better in the majority of the schools in the second group.</p>
<p>does cal tech get heavily recruited at all?</p>
<p>Alexandre, fantastic link. Thanks.</p>
<p>would a statistics major be better than a finance major for i-banking, since statistics is more quantitative?</p>
<p>Alexandre, Congratulations – I must have missed the news of your engagement. May you enjoy a long and joyous life together.</p>
<p>Is there a specific reason that those schools are all good for I-Banking over others who are just as high ranked? I believe UF’s finance program was ranked top 20 or so, is there a reason it is not as good as other universities? (I’m planning on being industrial and systems engineering, not finance, but still).</p>
<p>Gatordan, my list is purely opinion. I am sure I have left out many worthy schools and not classified some schools fairly or accurately.</p>
<p>Alexandre, why do you say Notre Dame over Washington U? Do they have better oncampus recruiting? I was just wondering because I know that WashU’s Olin undergrad business program is ranked much higher than Notre Dame’s.</p>
<p>I think Notre Dame has a stronger network and stronger ties to Wall Street. And Olin is not ranked “much higher” than Notre Dame B school. Olin is usually ranked anywhere from #11-15 and Notre Dame between #20 and #25.</p>
<p>Hi Dear, i want to ask you about concordia university and the electrical engineering program offered by this university if you have any information plz help me</p>
<p>Interesting article in Newsweek:</p>
<p>Romancing the Graduates
A look inside the most aggressive recruiting on campus as top firms pursue graduates as “human capital.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9071430/site/newsweek/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9071430/site/newsweek/</a></p>
<p>So Goldman recruits at 40 schools. Hmmmmmmm</p>
<p>I’m surprised it’s that many.</p>