Best Universities In The U.S. For Technology Jobs At Top Financial Services Firms 2017

New York is home to many of the world’s largest and most prestigious financial services firms such as BlackRock, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.

It’s no surprise that New York University Tandon School of Engineering led a list of the 40 best universities for technology jobs at financial services firms in the United States, by eFinancialCareers. Princeton University ranks in second place, followed by Rutgers University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, and the University of Illinois.

To snap up the best and brightest tech talent, financial services firms are aggressively recruiting graduates from the top institutions in the United States – whom they can groom to fit their cultures. IT, computer science, engineering, and other tech-related majors has become increasingly important for building a leading-edge financial services firm, and many are often competing with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and tech giants for top talent.

The six Ivy League institutions that made the list Princeton University (No. 2), Columbia University (No. 4), Harvard University (No. 6), University of Pennsylvania (No. 10), Cornell University (No. 11), and Yale University (No. 26)

The top 40 universities for technology jobs at top financial services firms in the U.S.

1. New York University Tandon School of Engineering
2. Princeton University
3. Rutgers University
4. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University
5. University of Illinois
6. Harvard University
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. Stanford University
9. University of Maryland (Clark)
10. University of Pennsylvania
11. Cornell University
12. Carnegie Mellon University
13. University of Southern California (Viterbi)
14. University of Michigan
15. University of California ​Los Angeles (Samueli)
16. University of Colorado
17. Johns Hopkins University (Whiting)
18. University of Wisconsin
19. University of California Berkeley
20. Purdue University
21. Northwestern University (McCormick)
22. Texas A&M University
23. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
24. University of Washington
25. Rochester Institute of Technology
26. Yale University
27. Georgia Institute of Technology
28. Ohio State University
29. University of Minnesota
30. Duke University
31. North Carolina State University
32. Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)
33. University of California ​San Diego (Jacobs)
34. University of Texas
35. Vanderbilt University
36. Rice University (George R. Brown)
37. University of California Davis
38. University of California ​Santa Barbara
39. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
40. California Polytechnic State University