<p>While not as hot right now as PE, running mutual fund investments is a much broader employment category employing far more people than PE etc. And most will still be around in 20 years. </p>
<p>According to Morningstar data, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s graduate program ranked #6 in placement of investment professionals at Morningstar rated funds. This is evidence of the school’s long and rich tradition of training investment managers.
Graduate Degrees of Investment Professionals at Morningstar Ranked Funds
Rank Count Graduate Studies Index
1 1 University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School 100
2 2 Harvard Business School 46
3 3 New York University - Stern School of Business 45
4 4 University of Chicago Graduate School of Business 40
5 5 Columbia Business School 35
6 6 University of Wisconsin - Madison 31
7 7 University of California at Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business 20
7 8 Stanford Graduate School of Business 20
9 9 Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Business 18
10 10 University of Virginia - Darden School of Management 17
11 11 University of Southern California 15
12 12 University of Michigan School of Business 12
12 13 Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management 12
12 14 Indiana University 12
15 15 Dartmouth College - Amos Tuck School of Business 11
15 16 MIT Sloan School of Management 11
15 17 Oxford University 11
18 18 University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business 9
18 19 Carnegie Mellon University 9
18 20 Duke University - Fuqua School 9
18 21 Cambridge University 9
18 22 University of Texas at Austin 9
23 23 University of Minnesota 8
24 24 University of Connecticut 7
24 25 Case Western Reserve University 7
Example: For every 100 investment managers that earned their graduate degrees from Wharton, 31 earned their degrees from UW-Madison.</p>