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No, a target school is a place where MOST banks and boutiques recruit HEAVILY on campus. Indiana doesn’t fit either of those criterion because only a few of the BBs recruit on campus and they only take a few kids each year. Stop fooling impressionable high schoolers with this garbage.</p>
<p>Let’s look a little closer at Kelley:</p>
<p>Bank of America Merrill Lynch 5
UBS Investment Bank 4
Deutsche Bank Securites 2
Goldman Sachs 2
J.P. Morgan Chase 2
William Blair & Co. 2
Citigroup 1
Greenhill & Co 1
Lazard Middle Market LLC 1
Moelis & Co 1
Morgan Stanley 1
O’Neill & Partners 1
Perella Weinberg 1</p>
<p>Only Indiana’s placement into BAML would be at “target” level. Only 2 at Goldman? Only 1 at Morgan Stanley? Only 1 at JPM? Where’s Wells Fargo? Where’s Credit Suisse? Where’s Barclays? Where’s RBC? Where’s RBS?</p>
<p>[Lazard</a> Middle Market](<a href=“http://www.lazardmm.com/careers/recruiting.cfm]Lazard”>http://www.lazardmm.com/careers/recruiting.cfm)
Indiana isn’t even listed here for Lazard Middle Markets. That one person doing Lazard must have got it through networking. I wonder how many more of these 24 Indiana investment bankers got their job just through sheer luck, networking and family connections rather than academic achievement/knowledge of the markets.</p>
<p>Indiana does surprisingly well in IBD recruitment considering the fact that its one of the weaker schools its own conference, the Big 10. I wonder if the top PE/HF shops will view the Indiana degree as a liability though as some of these kids finish their 2 year analyst stints and try to move to the next level.</p>