MBA --> Associate ....what are the target programs

Did a search and couldnt find much on this - we know what the "target" schools are for analyst recruiting, but what are these "target" schools for recruiting at the associate level?

other than the obvious Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, and Columbia, are there any other schools that are very Finance Recruiting heavy??? For instance, a top school like Northwestern is more known for Consulting, and only ~10% of their students get jobs at Ibanks (which I would imagine means that there are a limited number of firms that recruit there)

If somebody has tangible information or can rank the top 10-15 programs for ibanking that would be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm interested in hearing what people have to say on this one as well.

NYU and U. Chicago are pretty obvious ones, but aside from that and H/S/W, columbia, I'm not sure what other schools would be on this target list. What about Berkeley, MIT and Darden? Tuck and Cornell?

 

i have provided 2010's % taking careers in finance, which includes ibanking, PE, VC, etc. (in no particular order):

Booth (42.5%) NYU (50%) Wharton (42.5%) Harvard (?) Columbia (49%) Tuck (25%) Northwestern (15%) Stanford (31%) MIT (19.6%) Cornell (39.4%) Carnegie Mellon (25.45%) Duke (22%) Michigan (8.5%) UCLA (7.8%) Berkeley (12%) Virginia (25%)

 

I wouldnt worry about "finance heavy" recruiting...whatever that means. While Wharton is obviously great you are also competing with damn near half the class for banking jobs. Obviously go to the best school that suits you, but I wouldnt make this a priority. There are many schools that are not what one would consider "finance" schools, but that all of the banks recruit from (UVA, Ross, McCombs, others in that range).

 
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Cartwright:
I wouldnt worry about "finance heavy" recruiting...whatever that means. While Wharton is obviously great you are also competing with damn near half the class for banking jobs. Obviously go to the best school that suits you, but I wouldnt make this a priority. There are many schools that are not what one would consider "finance" schools, but that all of the banks recruit from (UVA, Ross, McCombs, others in that range).

i mean, i would prefer to be at a school that is heavy in banking...merely because of alumni resources. yes you have competition however many of your peers could help you in the future if you didnt land that ibank job you wanted. furthermore, i suspect that maybe banks have target goals when recruiting, meaning they look for a certain # of candidates at particular schools....if that was the case, then you would want to go to a heavy finance school. i want to go to booth, columbia, nyu, tuck or wharton....ughhhh however that wont be for a while

 

Also remember to consdider class size. For example Tuck is much smaller than NYU so inherently less competition by sheet volume

 

of course, i didnt specify that...i guess i could have included that, but that is the make up of each of their respective class sizes

 

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