For students considering a career in the global asset management field, eVestment has released a report on the sector, including a list of the top 20 US universities and colleges, ranked by total number of alumni working as "key professionals" at asset management firms.

For students considering a career in the global asset management field, eVestment has released a report on the sector, including a list of the top 20 US universities and colleges, ranked by total number of alumni working as "key professionals."

Asset managers from around the world provide data to eVestment, a global investment data analytics firm, including information on investment returns, asset flows and information on their strategies. This data also includes the educational backgrounds of the firms’ key professionals.

eVestment’s latest report, based on that data, looks at the top alumni networks overall and weighted for school size, as well as regional rankings for key US markets, firm roles, specific investment market segments and year of graduation.

The top 20 are:

1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Harvard University
3. Columbia University
4. University of Chicago
5. New York University
6. Stanford University
7. Northwestern University
8. University of California – Los Angeles
9. University of California – Berkeley
10. Boston College
11. Cornell University
12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
14. University of Virginia
15. Yale University
16. Boston University
17. Dartmouth College
18. Duke University
19. Princeton University
20. University of Southern California

The report also offers perspectives on top European and Asian colleges and their alumni working in specific product strategies such as European and UK fixed income, and Asia-Pacific and sub-region equity strategies.