<p>You will get a top financial job if you come out of Chicago and want one, and you don’t even need to be an economics major. While uChicago does not publish stats, they do tell their tour guides the top five employers. For the class of 2006, they were, in order, Teach for America, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, The Peace Corps, and UBS. In the Class of 2007, off the top of my head, I know 14 people going to Bank of America in London and NYC, and that doesn’t include people that turned down offers for other banks. Bank of America gives out jobs at uChicago like candy, and so does JPMorgan. I interviewed for about a dozen finance jobs, got callbacks for eight, and that turned into five offers, and it was pretty similar among my friends (2007, though, was an extremely big hiring year, it seems). And while I was an econ major, my GPA was not spectacular (below 3.3), and many of my non-econ friends got finance jobs, including two working with me at the bank I chose (a bulge bracket firm in NYC). Bank of America and JP Morgan seem to like the non-Econ majors the most, which makes sense considering they are the two top hires from Wall Street. Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Infosys Technologies, and Nationwide Insurance also love Chicago grads.</p>
<p>Getting consulting jobs out of Chicago, from what I have seen, is much tougher.</p>