eFinancialCareers: The top 50 universities for investment banking (global)

We analysed the 1m CVs on the eFinancialCareers database to ascertain the proportion of people in front office investment banking jobs who are now working in managing director roles. Then, we looked for the proportion of people with 1-3 years’ experience – namely, analysts – who work in front office roles. The top 50 universities are in the tables below.

Methodology:


UK Ranking:
1. University of Cambridge (8)
2. University of Oxford (10)
3. Durham University (26)
4. University of Edinburgh (28)
5. University of Bristol (29)
6. University of St Andrews (32)
7. London School of Economics (37)
8. University College London (42)
9. University of Warwick (45)
10. University of Bath (46)
11. Imperial College London (47)
12. University of Nottingham (48)

source: eFinancialCareers - MD versus Analysis: The top 50 universities for investment banking

What do the numbers in your post correspond to?


anyhow, nothing weird about it.....the ranking is just clearly not representative of reality.

brb putting LSE as my insurance and firming Edinburgh

Ranking is based on MDs not on analysts so it isn't exactly the best metric for getting into investment banking.

We analysed the 1m CVs on the eFinancialCareers database to ascertain the proportion of people in front office investment banking jobs who are now working in managing director roles. Then, we looked for the proportion of people with 1-3 years’ experience – namely, analysts – who work in front office roles. The top 50 universities are in the tables below.

Also got to take into account that the MDs went to these unis years ago... Things change.

This is what it says on their website, I think they did look at analysts.




They created another ranking based on analysis of CVs within the last 12 months, see this link.

This is what it says on their website, I think they did look at analysts.




They created another ranking based on analysis of CVs within the last 12 months, see this link.