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Columbia University
Columbia University is one of the best schools to pursue U.S. investment banking. Its position as the only Ivy League school in New York City gives it an incredible combination of status and access. Columbia sends dozens of students into the top investment banks every year.
Columbia has a great reputation with the top financial institutions and places #4 on our overall ranking for investment banking placement.
Columbia is also home to Columbia Business School, which has one of the world's most notable real estate investing programs. CBS is widely considered to be one of the best MBA programs in the world and also has very strong placement into investment banking.
Columbia University ranks #9 by total hires into the top U.S. investment banks and has an excellent Undergrad Placement % of 1.96%, coming in at #6 on the list. Columbia also has an extremely high Elite Firm Hires %, with ~50% of its placements ending up at the most coveted firms in investment banking.
Columbia is particularly well represented at the bulge brackets, sending the most hires to Goldman Sachs, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley.
Our investment banking target school list is a complete rank of 60 schools and analyzed >60k LinkedIn profiles of professionals who worked in investment banking between 2008 and 2023. We filtered the data to examine U.S. hires into the top investment banks.
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School Factsheet
Established: 1754
Location: New York, New York
Business School Name: Columbia Business School (CBS)
# of Undergrads: 8,148 per U.S News
# of Business School Undergrads: 0
Median Starting Salary (2022): $80k
President: Nemat "Minouche" Shafik
U.S. News Global Rank (2022-2023): #7
QS World University Rankings: #23
Financial Times MBA Rank: #2