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Northwestern University
Northwestern University is one of the country's top private research and teaching universities.
Northwestern is an incredibly well-rounded school and ranks #21 on our investment banking target school list. Northwestern students consistently place into investment banking and we consider the school to be a semi-target.
Northwestern is also home to the Kellogg School of Management, a highly-ranked educational institution for graduate students. Kellogg is one of the most consistent MBA programs for investment banking placement.
Similar to other liberal arts schools, Northwestern does not have an undergraduate business program.
Northwestern has a strong "Presence" score, which indicates that the firm is well-represented across Wall Street.
Northwestern also has a very high Elite Firm Hires figure of 47%. This suggests that those that do break into finance from Northwestern are able to reach the very best investment banks.
We note that Northwestern does not have a particularly strong presence when it comes to private equity placements.
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: 1851
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Business School Name: Kellogg
# of Undergrads: 8,494 per U.S. News
# of Business School Undergrads: 0
Median Starting Salary (2020): $64k
President: Michael H. Schill
U.S. News Global Rank (2022-2023): #24
QS World University Rankings: #47
Financial Times MBA Rank: #6