Best Undergrad Major for M&A

Alexandre
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:29:37 +0000

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:

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

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