Investments
Asset Management · Wealth Management / Private Banking · Hedge Funds · Private Credit · Alternative Investments · Investment Strategy · Portfolio Management · Real Assets
Who we are
Cornell Wall Street Club prepares students to build long-term careers across finance by developing transferable skills, providing exposure to the breadth of Wall Street, and connecting members with professionals, MBA students, and future graduate-school opportunities.
Through four specialized finance tracks, members develop skills that extend across roles and industries while exploring paths from investment banking and sales & trading to private credit, alternative assets, investment management, and emerging areas of finance.
Our goal is not simply to help members land their first internship or job. We give them the skills, network, and perspective to navigate an entire career.
Financial analysis, valuation, markets, research, modeling, communication, leadership, and commercial judgment that remain valuable across roles.
Relationships with industry professionals, recruiters, Cornell alumni, MBA students, and a community of ambitious peers.
Preparation for careers that evolve—from banking to private credit, research to asset management, or finance to graduate business education.
Workshops, panels, firm visits, and conversations that reveal opportunities across the broader financial ecosystem.
Four Specialized Tracks
Members build a shared foundation before developing deeper knowledge across four interconnected areas of the financial industry.
Asset Management · Wealth Management / Private Banking · Hedge Funds · Private Credit · Alternative Investments · Investment Strategy · Portfolio Management · Real Assets
Investment Banking · Private Equity · Private Credit · Venture Capital · Growth Equity · Restructuring
Sales & Trading · Equity Research · Credit Research · ECM · DCM · Leveraged Finance · Global Markets · Macro / Market Strategy · Institutional Sales
Corporate & Commercial Banking · FP&A · Treasury · Internal Audit · Credit & Enterprise Risk
Beyond the First Offer
Finance careers rarely move in a perfectly straight line. WSC develops capabilities that remain useful across roles, firms, and every stage of a member's career.
You do not need to know exactly where you want to end up. WSC introduces members to opportunities beyond the handful of roles most students encounter first.
Members learn how graduate business education can fit into a long-term Wall Street career strategy through conversations, resources, and programming.
Members can learn about leading deferred-enrollment pathways and prepare for the application process through information sessions, GMAT/GRE planning, resume development, essay preparation, and conversations with current MBA students and deferred admits.