<p>As an ibanking hopeful, I was wondering if we could have a list of investment banks that recruit heavily from UChicago. </p>
<p>My junior-year friend told me that he knows multiple people who have gotten offers from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America. Are there any more that recruit very heavily? What about middle market banks?</p>
<p>Anybody? I’m sure this will help prospective students out focus their networking efforts.</p>
<p>As far as I’ve heard, graduating from Chicago Careers in Business will give you a huge leg up anywhere you want to go. You would actually have to locate someone from the program to tell you the details though, because most liberal arts majors don’t really pay that much attention to recruitment by investment banks.</p>
<p>Your title should be " Any List of Investment Banks that recruit at UChicago ?"</p>
<p>In terms of heavy recruiters in the bulge-bracket realm, I’m pretty sure you’ve hit them all. Credit Suisse and JP Morgan have huge presences on campus, and I’ve seen activity from Goldman as well. Haven’t seen much from Bank of America, though I think that either they or Citi (maybe both) also post on our careers page. Morgan Stanley’s not known to recruit here, but I just got a wealth management internship there from our careers site which hopefully I’ll be able to flip into an ibanking summer analyst position by my third year. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.</p>
<p>Edit: There are definitely a couple MM firms that recruit here as well. Off the top of my head, I can think of Baird and William Blair.</p>
<p>I heard from my junior-year friend that even though fewer investment banks recruit here as compared to say, Dartmouth or Columbia, proportionally less students will apply to ibanking positions, meaning that the supply meets the demand. How valid is that statement?</p>
<p>Friedman:</p>
<p>Go here:</p>
<p><a href=“https://careeradvancement.uchicago.edu/business/adviser[/url]”>https://careeradvancement.uchicago.edu/business/adviser</a></p>
<p>And feel free to e-mail any of the advisers and ask for detailed information. They should be able to provide you with a list of banks that recruit at UChicago, along with data on how many students go where, how many are involved in on campus recruiting, etc. You should also be able to e-mail students directly and them questions through the list of student profiles and other referrals from the UChicago Career Advancement advisers.</p>
<p>“I heard from my junior-year friend that even though fewer investment banks recruit here as compared to say, Dartmouth or Columbia, proportionally less students will apply to ibanking positions, meaning that the supply meets the demand. How valid is that statement?”</p>
<p>There will also be less positions given out to UChicago students. Banks typically have a predetermined number of students from each school they will invite for superday.</p>
<p>Don’t think Columbia’s known for being too heavily recruited for ibanking (despite its location in nyc). To be honest, I do think it’s marginally more difficult to land a position here than at, say, Dartmouth. Though I don’t think that significantly more banks recruit at Dartmouth, I do think that they’ll be given more opportunities to interview simply because the Dartmouth population has traditionally been known to produce solid ibankers for a while. UChicago’s a bit unproven on that front. Regardless, if you get the right experience and have a solid personality, I don’t think it’d be too difficult. The big equalizer in my mind is that you’ll be located in Chicago and that you can actually participate in academic-year internships (I’ll be doing it for 2/3 quarters this year, and it’s manageable). With the extra internship experience, you should be just as competitive (if not more) than a comparable Dartmouth or Duke undergrad.</p>
<p>Friedman:</p>
<p>All this speculation aside, just go directly to the UChicago Career Office, through the link I sent you above. You can also get in touch with current students that way - they should be able to give you the full scoop.</p>
<p>All of this being said, you’ll be just fine at UChicago - and make sure you make good decisions that will allow you to network/expand upon your professional skills. As another poster said, a huge advantage of being in Chicago is being able to intern at a financial institution during the school year. Especially in your third and fourth years (or as an informal intern say, during your first and second year summers) will only work to your advantage.</p>