<p>Curious to know about a list of which colleges/universities, that have the most alumni or undergrads going into the business/ finance field. I tried finding a definitive list, but no luck.</p>
<p>I likewise know of no such list, though there are rankings of major CEOs’ alma maters. These probably carry little value for the individual, however.</p>
<p>The most selective undergraduate institutions reliably send the highest percentage of graduates into consulting and finance. Investment banking’s recruitment significantly disproportionately favors graduates of top colleges. Graduating from a less prestigious college is a bit less prohibitive for consulting but still disadvantageous. </p>
<p>Colleges with prominent undergraduate business programs also presumably send relatively large numbers of graduates into business and finance.</p>
<p>I would argue that consulting is more prestige-conscious than investment banking silverturtle. Places like McKinsey only recruit at the 8 Ivies minus Cornell, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, and the business programs at the 5 public universities: Berkeley, UVA, Texas, Michigan, and UNC.</p>
<p>I don’t have any data to support my sense over yours, so you may be right. It’s worth noting, though, that McKinsey is more elitist in its hiring than some of its similarly regarded peers and certainly does not represent most of the consulting firms out there in this respect. What you describe also seems to apply to selective investment banking recruiting practices.</p>