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Official (Unofficial) 2016 Spring Week Uni Statistics

Hi there guys.

So my friends have been very kind as to reveal the profile books for the spring weeks they attended, and I've managed to tally up the number of times each university showed up.

This data is based off of the profile books/attendent lists at the following firms: JPM (Markets), BAML, Nomura, BP IST, CS and Lazard. Obviously, this is partial data (only c.37.5% of all SWs) and not a complete representation of all 16 or so spring weeks, but it gives us a rough idea.

Frequency-Institution-(% of total)
29 LSE (15.4%)
27 Warwick (14.4%)
20 Imperial (10.6%)
20 UCL (10.6%)
19 Oxford (10.1%)
17 Cambridge (9%)

Targets - 70.1%

9 Notts (4.8%)
8 Durham (4.3%)
6 KCL (3.2%)
5 Bristol (2.7%)

(Strong) Semi Targets - 15.3%

4 Edinburgh (2.1%)
4 Cass (2.1%)
3 Manchester (1.6%)
3 Exeter (1.6%)
2 St Andrews (1.1%)

Other Semi Targets - 8.5%

3 Leeds (1.6%)
2 Sheffield (1.1%)
2 Birmingham (1.1%)
1 Southampton (0.5%)
1 Lancaster (0.5%)
1 BPP Law School (0.5%)
1 Glasgow (0.5%)
1 DMU (0.5%)

Non Targets - 6.3%

n = 188

N.B. This is for front office only.

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Reply 1

Trapz99

Original post by Princepieman

Thanks for putting the effort into making this! Very helpful

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Reply 2

username738914

Original post by Trapz99

Thanks for putting the effort into making this! Very helpful

No problem dude! I wish I had info from all the spring weeks though, would have been more accurate.

Reply 3

Terry Tibbs

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Investmentbankingspringinterns2015/members/
From the 2015 facebook group:

96 Warwick
53 LSE
47 UCL
22 Bristol
21 Cambridge
15 Southampton
13 Imperial
13 Cass
11 Durham
11 Exeter
9 Oxford
6 Manchester
5 Edinburgh
5 Birmingham
5 Glasgow
4 Nottingham
3 St Andrews
2 Lancaster
1 Leeds

Obviously this will be highly inaccurate as not everyone displays their uni on fb, still worth showing though.

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Reply 4

Trapz99

Original post by Princepieman

No problem dude! I wish I had info from all the spring weeks though, would have been more accurate.

For BP IS&T, was there a similar pattern of most interns coming from target unis or was it more equally distributed between target, semi targets and non targets?

Reply 5

username738914

Original post by Terry Tibbs

Looks quite inaccurate imo. I have scattered stats for 2013-2015, and generally the targets are quite consistent.

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Reply 6

username738914

Original post by Trapz99

For BP IS&T, was there a similar pattern of most interns coming from target unis or was it more equally distributed between target, semi targets and non targets?

I'll just dump it:

BP IST
3 - Notts
2 - LSE, Oxford
1 - UCL, Warwick, Manchester, Cambridge

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Reply 7

Trapz99

Original post by Princepieman

I'll just dump it:

BP IST
3 - Notts
2 - LSE, Oxford
1 - UCL, Warwick, Manchester, Cambridge

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Thanks again

Reply 8

Terry Tibbs

Original post by Princepieman

Looks quite inaccurate imo. I have scattered stats for 2013-2015, and generally the targets are quite consistent.

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Hence why I said it is inaccurate (at least in terms of ranking), however it does for example show that quite a large amount from Southampton managed to get a spring week.

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Reply 9

username738914

Original post by Terry Tibbs

Hence why I said it is inaccurate (at least in terms of ranking), however it does for example show that quite a large amount from Southampton managed to get a spring week.

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If the data was complete, I think Southampton would still scale towards the 1-2% mark.

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Reply 10

Daniel9998

I'm surprised Bath hasn't shown up once

Reply 11

username738914

Original post by Daniel9998

I'm surprised Bath hasn't shown up once

They do, I just don't have data for all SWs. A quick browse of my LinkedIn network shows quite a few at GS, MS, Barc and Roths.

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Reply 12

ULT

Original post by Princepieman

x .

Not surprised, places like LSE and Warwick have ridiculously large finance societies and have an upper hand when it comes to SWs

Reply 13

username738914

Original post by ULT

Not surprised, places like LSE and Warwick have ridiculously large finance societies and have an upper hand when it comes to SWs

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It's interesting though how Oxbridge is lower even though their finance socieities are pretty strong.

Reply 14

SJU1

Original post by Terry Tibbs

That Facebook group is BS, really wouldn't attach anything to it. I'm on it myself and there are a tonne of people on it who didn't do any SWs but joined it nonetheless. It is unsurprising that Warwick has the most members in it given it was created by people at Warwick. It is a useless arbiter.

Linkedin is probably the best method to check aside from getting the actual class books from those on SWs.

Reply 15

ULT

Original post by Princepieman

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It's interesting though how Oxbridge is lower even though their finance socieities are pretty strong.

hmm yeahh, surprised about that too. They probably go to the more exclusive SWs like Jane street or something idk

But places like UCL, Warwick, and LSE would certainly sweep up the SW opportunities, considering many go there with the intent of a career in finance.

Which then leads me to question how Imperial seem to be so high too lol

Reply 16

Trapz99

Original post by Princepieman

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It's interesting though how Oxbridge is lower even though their finance socieities are pretty strong.

Maybe Oxbridge students tend to be more academic rather than career focused so don't really apply for Spring weeks, just for summer internships after they've figured out what they want to do. On the other hand, everyone in my school last year who went to LSE and most that went to UCL wanted to get to IB.

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Reply 17

Trapz99

Original post by ULT

It's probably the maths students there who are focused more on IB and Imperial has a pretty big maths department.

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Reply 18

ULT

Original post by Trapz99

It's probably the maths students there who are focused more on IB and Imperial has a pretty ig maths department.

Yeah i thought that too but I thought they would be more interested in quant roles or hedge funds or S&T where their mathematical ability is more revered.

Maybe that is the case here

Reply 19

Trapz99

Original post by ULT

Yeah i thought that too but I thought they would be more interested in quant roles or hedge funds or S&T where their mathematical ability is more revered.

Maybe that is the case here

Quant roles require a PhD though so most people won't be interested. A lot of maths graduates go to IBD and other non-mathsy roles like management consulting and accounting.