10 Best Schools If You Want To Work At Top Hedge Fund

SumZero, a social network dedicated to the buy side community, crunched the numbers and came up with a list of the universities boasting the highest number of graduates at the very best hedge funds.

SumZero's conclusions are based on a survey of its 11,000 members—a sample size it considers large enough to be representative of the 100,000 to 110,000-person “buy side” community.

Luke Sciefelbein, head of data science at SumZero, told CNBC they created the “top fund” category using a combination of rankings.

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Colgate is #1? Really? Colgate is a "good" school but I've read my share of tear sheets from hedge funds. Not one manager from Colgate.

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I am surprised Stanford or Cal were not in the top 10, especially Stanford...

 

Because of proximity, you get a lot of hedge fund managers from the NYC area. So I expected Columbia and NYU to also be on the list.

 

Top universities in the World and not a single French, German, Scandinavian, Chinese, Indian university on the list....
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bay-Area-schools-among-20-best-universities-in-6403483.php

 

Penn was number 5. Harvard was number 9. And Yale and Columbia didn't make the list!