<p>Thats weird I thought all these schools had IB recruiting?</p>
<p>IU
UIUC
Babson coll.
Trinity coll. (hartford)
UMCP</p>
<p>SebmaFSX out of your list perhaps only two schools are considered looking grounds for Investment Banks. None of those schools would be close to being considered hunting grounds though. University of Maryland College Park is certainly a place where IB’s recruit at. Unfortunately, at College Park there are so many students in addition to the Smith Honors students (the business program) who are likely to take up the few spots.</p>
<p>UIUC is also visited by a few banks.</p>
<p>Indiana although Kelly is ranked high is extremely large and therefore the IB positions only go to a handful of the cream of the crop students who if they wanted to could probably go to the Ivies or Wharton but got a great scholarship offer from Indiana.</p>
<p>Trinity College is a liberal arts school and doesn’t even have a business program. Although they are strong in economics there are too many school much better then Trinity and located in close proximity to it where IBanks love to go (Williams, Amherst etc…)</p>
<p>Babson - An Investment Banker is not an entrepreneur. The school is too small, and not selective enough to attract many I-banks. The focus on “Entrepreneurship” is too heavily emphasized where as Investment Banks tend to look for people with finance or business backgrounds or economics from a top LAC.</p>
<p>You can theoretically get an IB job from any of the schools on your list. Unfortunately, your odds of getting an IB job from Babson or Trinity are close to none. Your odds are slightly better at IU and a bit better then IU at UMCP and UIUC. If you want to have a good shot at IB go to an Ivy, Top 10 undergraduate business school or Top LAC and major in economics.</p>
<p>Even then you’ll realize in IB your working 80-100 hour weeks and you will have no life. You will make good money but won’t enjoy a dime of it because you will be in the office so much. Then you will probably hate your job and leave after two years and do something else. Welcome to IBanking if you want to make it to the top be prepared to sacrifice A LOT. </p>
<p>Although that holds true in any profession in I-Bank its just a lot more rigorous the minute you enter the field.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>UMCP is really a hunting ground. I have never seen it come up on any of these lists or any of the ibanks websites recruitment lists.</p>
<p>What about </p>
<p>Boston University
Geroge Washington University
American University
UT Austin-is there really a chance even though it is recruited because it is such a big school?</p>
<p>Do Cornell, McGill, Rochester, Brandeis, Case Western Reserve or Purdue Recruit IB?</p>
<p>Cornell - yes definetely a hunting ground </p>
<p>Rochester - no</p>
<p>Purdue - yes for Krannet business</p>
<p>McGill - yes its one of the best in Canada</p>
<p>GWU - no but good for politics</p>
<p>BU - no (Harvard and MIT are right there why would IB go to BU)</p>
<p>American - no but good for politics</p>
<p>UT Austin - YES, only if you do very well though then are basically guaranteed a job at an Ibank. UT Austin business is ranked very high.</p>
<p>“BU - no (Harvard and MIT are right there why would IB go to BU)”</p>
<p>As I’ve mentioned before, YES–Investment Banks DO recruit on-campus at BU–and there are good reasons for it.</p>
<p>“BU - no (Harvard and MIT are right there why would IB go to BU)”</p>
<p>Well they recruit at Illinois in the middle of nowhere and chicago is about 2hs away they still go to illinois…</p>
<p>yeah cause they have a top ranking undergrad business program, where as u of chicago and northwestern don’t.</p>
<p>Harvard has NO undergrad business program either and Ibanks recriut at LACs as well where they don’t have business schools either</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they don’t only recruit only business majors; econ and hard sciences are probably qualified as much and most probably more…</p>
<p>how would an econ major be qualified? It’s not a tough major…</p>
<p>How is it possible that barely any companies are recruiting undergrads from Stern?</p>
<p>Its 2 in finance!!</p>
<p>Eh? Barely any companies recruiting from Stern? Where’d you hear that nonsense from? They recruit at Stern almost as agressively as they do at Wharton.</p>
<p>"How is it possible that barely any companies are recruiting undergrads from Stern?</p>
<p>Its 2 in finance!!"</p>
<p>If I can give you any advice, it’s to not obsess over stuff like this. Grades, connections, how well you conform to what the interviewer wants is immeasurably more important to your getting the job than usnews’ rankings.</p>
<p>In the list above, there are normal, state schools like cuny baroch - I didn’t know i-banks recruit from places like that.</p>
<p>Okay there is a GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE between having IB’s recruiting at your school and your odds of getting one of those jobs. Just because you go to a place where IB’s recruit doesn’t mean you will get the job. Even if you go to a school where IB’s recruit heavily doesn’t mean you will have a good chance of getting a job.</p>
<p>You should worry about getting to a school that has the highest percentage of each graduating class going into I-Banking.</p>
<p>Recruiting at a school mean nothing. Goldman could recruit at BU but they will only keep one spot open. Now what are your odds of getting that one spot???</p>
<p>If a school is on an IB’s hunting list doesn’t mean a thing. The school needs to focus on getting a very high percentage of its class in those positions.</p>
<p>Sure IB’s may recruit at BU but how many positions are available and what percentage of the class goes into IBanking.</p>
<p>When IB’s know they are going to have many qualified candidates at MIT and Harvard probably enough to fill all their open positions they will spend very little time at a school like BU where they know not too many students will be as qualified as Harvard students would and the percentage of the BU class that goes into IBanking is far far less then the percentage at Harvard or MIT.</p>
<p>what kind of majors Do they recruit for IB?</p>
<p>well considering IB is mostly finance based IB’s recruit heavily for finance majors. They also look for accounting majors. If you are say at an LAC where there is no business program or finance/accounting major it would be a good option to major in economics as economics is also sought after usually where there is no business program.</p>
<p>I’d say in order it would be 1. Finance 2. Economics/Accounting 3. Management/Marketing (management and marketing are usually considered the easier of the business majors) 4. Any other natural science or human science ie. biology, psychology as these are least related to the actual jobs in IBanking</p>
<p>What kind of math does finance for IB involve?
I would think they recruit a lot of PHY, MATH, CHEM, ENG majors…</p>
<p>Isnt knowing a porgraming language like C++ also good?
Is knowing 2 other languages a plus?
How is Biology or Psychology related to IB?</p>
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<p>Don’t confuse “finance” with the word ‘quantitative’. Lately, i-banks have been recruiting large numbers of engineering / math / physics students (from top schools of course). </p>
<p>The advantage to having a finance major is that you can rack a higher GPA than a business major and since top i-banks care a LOT about GPA, that’s a big plus.</p>