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Villanova University
Villanova University is a private Catholic research university located in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Well-regarded for its athletics and academics, Villanova sends a handful of top students into investment banking every year.
Villanova is ranked #57 on our investment banking target school list, earning a designation as a lower semi-target school.
Villanova is home to the Villanova School of Business or VSB, which offers both graduate and undergraduate programs. Of note, Villanova is the only Augustinian Catholic University in the nation.
Villanova does not send an incredibly high number of people into investment banking, but it still consistently places a few top students. We note that Villanova is tied for the lowest Presence score on our list (alongside Colgate and ASU). This indicates that Villanova is not particularly well represented across Wall Street.
Villanova's strongest bank relationship is with Barclays, where 26% of investment banking hires end up. We note that Villanova's placements are also evenly dispersed across different investment banks.
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: 1842
Location: Villanova, Pennsylvania
Business School Name: Villanova
# of Undergrads: 7,032 per U.S. News
Median Starting Salary (2022): $73k
President: Peter M. Donohue
U.S. News Global Rank (2022-2023): #966
QS World University Rankings: #151-160