The kind of people who are best suited for work that involves investment banking would be the driven, ambitious, well-connected college grads with a two-year or four-year degree in financial courses. Persons who do well at a banking internship or mastering the art of networking in financial circles or excelling at a start-up or technology company are also the kind of people best-suited for work that involves investment banking. For years, the big banks and hedge funds recruited at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other big universities for finance grads. Having a prestigious university name on a person’s resume may possibly lift the chances for a person to be recruited, but it’s not the only type of person to work in investment banking.