<p>I would say that anyone who’s sufficiently motivated can get an IB job from either school. Once you get the interview, I don’t imagine the name of your school makes a difference. If the interviewer likes the NYU grad more, he’s not going to hire the Columbia grad just because of the name.</p>
<p>The appreciable difference comes in the interview selection process. I imagine that some firms value the finance/accounting training that one gets at Stern, while others just want a smart person they can train. (Not saying that Columbia students don’t know finance, or that Stern students aren’t smart. It’s just as an example.) I think it would be difficult to determine the exact proportion of employers who prefer one to the other. </p>
<p>Hence, one of the few meaningful things that separate these schools is the number of hyper-selective firms that recruit there. For example, Jane Street recruits at most of the Ivies + CMU, Duke, MIT. No NYU here. Blackstone recruits at Harvard and Wharton, not sure about Columbia and NYU. So instead of picking apart the existing anecdotes, I suggest that you (objobs) provide non-anecdotal information that shows that these hyper-selective firms don’t recruit more at Columbia than they do at NYU.</p>