<p>Alexandre,
Many thanks for all of the data gathering. I know how much time and effort such activities take. </p>
<p>To look at it better just for undergrads,:</p>
<p>Rank , U Grad , College
1 , 62 graduates , Harvard
2 , 61 graduates , U Penn
3 , 35 graduates , Princeton
4 , 27 graduates , Dartmouth
5 , 24 graduates , Duke
6 , 23 graduates , Cornell
7 , 22 graduates , Yale
8 , 21 graduates , Georgetown
9 , 20 graduates , UC Berkeley
10 , 17 graduates , Stanford
11 , 17 graduates , U Michigan
12 , 16 graduates , Brown
13 , 15 graduates , Columbia
14 , 12 graduates , U Virginia
15 , 11 graduates , NYU
16 , 10 graduates , Boston College
17 , 9 graduates , U Texas
18 , 7 graduates , Northwestern
19 , 7 graduates , U North Carolina
20 , 6 graduates , Emory
21 , 6 graduates , U Chicago
22 , 6 graduates , Notre Dame
23 , 6 graduates , Williams
24 , 5 graduates , Middlebury
25 , 5 graduates , Syracuse
26 , 5 graduates , UCLA
27 , 5 graduates , Vanderbilt
28 , 5 graduates , W&L</p>
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<p>My observations would be:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The numbers are probably what most would expect given the combination of:
a. the interest level/orientation of students at different schools even interested in pursuing a job in private equity; and
b. the geographic location of the schools and the firms you surveyed</p></li>
<li><p>There are several USNWR top-ranked national universities that did not make your list, eg, Caltech, MIT, Wash U, Johns Hopkins, Rice. Likewise with several highly rated LACs like Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, etc. I agree that it is probably not a great thought to read too much into these numbers. But I do find impressive the absolute numbers for Harvard and U Penn (probably all Wharton) to be strong evidence of the placement power of these colleges with desirable employers like the ones you sampled. </p></li>
<li><p>The surprises to me were
a. Georgetown (I knew it would be good, but I am surprised that it was this good-they are probably the biggest beneficiary of the sample bias as there are probably a lot of them at Carlyle. Right?)
b. Boston College (I guess this is again a geographic beneficiary, ie, being in Boston and thus close to Bain and PEP. Right? But still, I doubt that many think quickly of BC as being an important supplier of graduates to the PE industry)
c. Syracuse-a surprise to me no matter how you slice it
d. W&L-impressive because of its small size and comparatively remote location </p></li>
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<p>I also did an undergraduate population weighted comparison of the same 28 schools. In this method, Ivy colleges held the first five spots and 7 of the first 11. I think this demonstrates accurately the inclination of their students to pursue these jobs and these employers’ continuing strong interest in recruiting from these campuses:</p>
<p>Rank , , College
1 , 0.0092 , Harvard
2 , 0.0074 , Princeton
3 , 0.0066 , Dartmouth
4 , 0.0063 , U Penn
5 , 0.0041 , Yale
6 , 0.0038 , Duke
7 , 0.0031 , Georgetown
8 , 0.003 , Williams
9 , 0.0029 , Columbia
10 , 0.0029 , W&L
11 , 0.0027 , Brown
12 , 0.0026 , Stanford
13 , 0.0021 , Middlebury
14 , 0.0017 , Cornell
15 , 0.0012 , U Chicago
16 , 0.0011 , Boston College
17 , 0.0009 , Northwestern
18 , 0.0009 , Emory
19 , 0.0008 , UC Berkeley
20 , 0.0008 , U Virginia
21 , 0.0008 , Vanderbilt
22 , 0.0007 , U Michigan
23 , 0.0007 , Notre Dame
24 , 0.0005 , NYU
25 , 0.0004 , U North Carolina
26 , 0.0004 , Syracuse
27 , 0.0002 , U Texas
28 , 0.0002 , UCLA</p>