From the tracker's own data
The 2026-27 Finance Recruiting Report
What 3,369 US and international finance openings at 494 firms, tracked for the 2027 and 2028 cycles, show about where the openings are, which class years they take, what closes next and where the roles are based, for students in the 2026-27 school year.
By Michael Botti and John Botti
Updated November 4, 2026. Every figure is computed from the live tracker.
How to cite: Internvest, "The 2026-27 Finance Recruiting Report," figures as of November 4, 2026, https://internvest.com/report.
3,369
Openings tracked
Every opening with a deadline or an application link, for the 2027 and 2028 cycles.
2,532
Taking applications now
Opened and not yet closed on November 4, 2026.
494
Firms
Banks, funds, consultancies and companies with at least one opening.
50%
Outside the US
1,697 of the 3,369 openings are in Europe outside the UK, Asia, the UK, Canada and the Middle East.
Supply
Where the openings are.
Investment Banking has 689 of the 3,369 openings (20%), 42 openings ahead of the next path, Asset Management (647). Private Credit (62) and Venture Capital (26) have the fewest, 3% of the openings between them. By type, the openings are 1,625 summer internships, 982 full-time roles, 504 off-cycle internships, 178 with no type stated and 80 insight programs.
Openings per path, by type
All 3,369 openings on the ten paths, split by the type the posting states, for the 2027 and 2028 cycles.
Source: Internvest 2026-27 Recruiting Report, internvest.com/report. Figures as of November 4, 2026.
Class year
How early you can start.
89 openings at 30 firms take freshmen, the class of 2030: 64 of them are taking applications now, and 32 are insight days or early insight events. For sophomores, the class of 2029, it is 348 openings at 106 firms, 264 taking applications now and 65 insight events. For juniors, the class of 2028, it is 1,083 openings at 311 firms, 822 taking applications now. For seniors, the class of 2027, it is 427 openings at 198 firms, 264 taking applications now.
An opening counts for a class when its posting's graduation dates take the class, or a documented rule places it there, and it has not closed; one opening can count for several classes. These are the class-year pages' own counts.
Openings not yet closed, by class year
Each class in the 2026-27 school year, as its class-year page counts it on November 4, 2026; one opening can count for several classes.
Source: Internvest 2026-27 Recruiting Report, internvest.com/report. Figures as of November 4, 2026.
Deadlines
What closes next.
Of the 2,532 openings taking applications on November 4, 2026, only 519 state a deadline: 279 close in November 2026 and 171 in December 2026. Of the rest, 640 postings state no deadline and 1,373 have none on file. Of all 2,532, 128 say the firm reviews applications on a rolling basis, as they arrive. A posting with no deadline can close on any day, and a firm that reviews on a rolling basis can fill its places before its stated date, so apply as early as you can.
By path, 326 openings close within 30 days: Investment Banking (117), Asset Management (66) and Corporate Finance (45) have the most, 228 of the 326 between them; Private Credit and Venture Capital have none. Each path's hub lists them by firm.
Openings taking applications on November 4, 2026, by stated deadline
All 2,532 of them: those that state a deadline, by month, November 2026 to January 2027 and later, then those that state none.
Source: Internvest 2026-27 Recruiting Report, internvest.com/report. Figures as of November 4, 2026.
Requirements
What the postings ask for.
Only 350 of the 3,369 openings (10%) record whether the posting wants a cover letter: 183 require one, 84 list it as optional and 83 do not ask for one. Only 162 (5%) record whether it asks for written answers: 46 do, 2 list them as optional and 114 do not.
Visa sponsorship is recorded for each firm, not each posting: 53 of the 494 firms with an opening confirm they sponsor, 26 say they do not, and 415 (84%) leave it unreported. Check each firm's own page before you apply.
Geography
Where the roles are based.
Of the 3,369 openings, 1,672 (50%) are in the US; the other 1,697 are in Europe outside the UK (691), Asia (429), the UK (407), Canada (116) and the Middle East (54).
Openings by region
All 3,369 openings, by the region of the posting.
Source: Internvest 2026-27 Recruiting Report, internvest.com/report. Figures as of November 4, 2026.
New York is named by 574 openings, ahead of London (379) and Chicago (237). The rest of the top ten runs from Paris (160) to Houston (85). The openings name 559 distinct cities in all, with the spellings of one city merged; an opening that names several cities counts once for each. Another 99 openings give only a country, a region, a state or Remote, and 270 name no place; neither is in the chart.
Top 10 cities by openings
Openings naming each city, across all 3,369 openings.
Source: Internvest 2026-27 Recruiting Report, internvest.com/report. Figures as of November 4, 2026.
Methodology
What an opening is. One posting or careers page at one firm for one recruiting year that states a deadline or links to an application: the count the Internvest landing page and openings hubs quote. A firm that posts each office or desk separately counts once for each, so openings count postings, not seats. 1,155 of the 3,369 state no recruiting year and count toward the total. The tracker holds 3,167 more rows with neither a deadline nor a link, counted only in the openings taking applications now and in the class-year figures, which read every row as the landing page and the class-year pages do.
Where the rows come from. The firms' own job feeds and careers pages. Where a firm publishes a job feed, the tracker reads it daily and adds the postings it finds; the other firms' pages are checked by hand. A deadline is the one the posting states, and "no deadline stated" means the posting was read and gives none. The rows were last checked on November 4, 2026, the date the figures are cited as of; the counts that depend on the day (taking applications now, the deadlines ahead and the class years) are taken on November 4, 2026.
How closures are found. An opening reads closed once its stated deadline has passed, when the feed check finds the posting gone from the firm's own job feed on two runs in a row, or when a reviewer confirms it is gone.
When firms open applications. The tracker records a posting from the day it first sees it, so it cannot say when a cycle opens, and the report gives no month for that. For when a firm opens, use the dates it announces on its own careers page and the openings marked Expected to open (46 on November 4, 2026), which the openings hubs count path by path. The deadlines chart counts what is open today and when it closes; what opens later is not on it yet.
What is recorded on few openings. Cover letters and written answers are recorded on too few openings to chart, so the report states their counts with their coverage. Visa sponsorship is recorded for each firm, not each posting. Interview stages and offers are not tracked, so the report gives no figures for them.
What is not covered. Roles filled through networking, referrals or campus events without a public posting; firms whose job feeds and careers pages the tracker does not read; and the number of seats behind a posting.
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