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This Johns Hopkins Professor Can Guarantee You a Job in Finance
Steve Hanke says he places 100 percent of his students on Wall Street.
Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University
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People aspiring to work on Wall Street often try to get into “target schools”—top colleges for investment bank recruiters. Johns Hopkins University isn’t a target school. It doesn’t even offer an undergraduate degree in finance. But the Baltimore mecca for medicine, Bloomberg Markets reports in its May issue, has what could be called a target course: Applied Economics and Finance, taught by professor Steve Hanke.
His protégés have gone on to work at such institutions as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and hedge fund firm Third Point. In fact, Hanke—who selects just 12 students every semester—says he places 100 percent of each class in finance jobs.