Columbia Economics Society

What Columbia Economics Society does

Columbia Economics Society is a student-run, pre-professional organization based at Columbia University in New York City, self-described as the largest and oldest pre-professional group on campus. Its mission is to connect Columbia undergraduates with economists, professors, and professionals across banking, finance, and consulting through panels, fireside chats, info sessions, case workshops, and networking events. The organization's go-to-market motion is event-driven and community-led: a 16+ member Executive Board meets weekly to plan programming, while a Senior Advisor and Alumni Chair structure supports continuity across academic years.

The organization offers one core monetized product — a two-day Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp delivered in partnership with instructor Ashish Kohli and priced at $199 per Columbia student, subsidized from a $995 market rate. All other events are free and funded implicitly through university support and in-kind corporate sponsorship. The technology stack is non-proprietary: a Squarespace website (cueconsociety.com), Zoom for virtual events, Eventbrite for ticketing, Google Forms for applications, and an email newsletter for distribution. No APIs, AI/ML capabilities, patents, or proprietary software are mentioned.

Commercially, the Society maintains documented relationships with 20+ leading financial, banking, and consulting firms — including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Evercore, Lazard, and Bloomberg — which supply panelists, recruiters, and event sponsorship. It also co-sponsors programming with peer Columbia organizations such as Columbia Venture Partners, Columbia Political Union, Columbia Women's Business Society, and Columbia Art Market Society to broaden topical reach into venture capital, public banking, fashion, and alternative assets. The customer base is Columbia undergraduates across all majors, with no disclosed revenue, funding, or formal financial reporting.

Name

Columbia Economics Society

Website

https://cueconsociety.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Columbia Economics Society is Columbia University's largest and oldest pre-professional student organization, running free panels, info sessions, and workshops that connect undergraduates with professionals in banking, finance, consulting, and economics. It also offers a subsidized financial modeling bootcamp.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Career Development Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional Organizations (813920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Portfolio, Capstone & Project-Based Program Support (EDAMAKAD)

Keywords

• Student organization
• Career development events
• Finance networking
• Pre-professional society
• Economics education

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Event Fees: Some educational events such as the Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp charge a subsidized fee of $199 (normally $995) to students. This is a cost-recovery model with heavy subsidy from the organization for member benefit.
2. Membership: General membership and participation in events is free for Columbia University students. Organization appears to be funded through university support and corporate sponsorships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Columbia Economics Society is a pre-professional student organization at Columbia University that organizes career-development events — including speaker panels, fireside chats with executives, case workshops, info sessions, and recruitment events — connecting undergraduate students with economists, professors, and professionals from banking, finance, and consulting. Its only paid offering is a subsidized Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp delivered in partnership with an external instructor. All general membership activities are free for Columbia students.

Product overview

Columbia Economics Society is a pre-professional student organization at Columbia University that operates as a single-service offering focused on career development events and programming in economics and finance. The organization offers one primary program: a Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp conducted in partnership with industry professionals, which is the only fee-based service in their portfolio. All other activities are free member events including panels, information sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities with professionals from banking, consulting, and finance sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp

Quantifiable outcome

• Connected students with professionals from 20+ leading firms including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Citi, and others
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ashish Kohli (Financial Modeling Instructor)coreOthers · 4 October 2020Partner instructor for Financial Modeling and Valuation Bootcamp. Seasoned investment banker, private equity, and accounting professional with over 20 years of transaction experience. Provides intensive 2-day seminar normally costing $995, subsidized to $199 for Columbia students.
• Columbia Venture PartnerscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-hosts venture capital and growth equity events with Columbia Economics Society, bringing together student attendees with VC and GE investors from firms like Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, Five Elms Capital, Intel Capital, and Palm Drive Capital.
• Columbia Political UnionminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-sponsors events on public banking with Columbia Political Union, featuring experts from Public Banking Institute, CUNY, and Willamette University College of Law.
• Columbia Women's Business SocietyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartners on fashion industry career events, combining expertise to reach students interested in consumer goods and luxury sectors.
• Columbia Art Market SocietyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-hosts events on fractional art investing and alternative asset classes, featuring Masterworks CFO and art market professionals.
• RocketBlocksminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with consulting interview prep firm RocketBlocks provides 20% discount on courses for first 20 registered participants attending Breaking into Consulting 101 events.
• Goldman SachscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerMajor corporate partner for events including Goldman Sachs Growth Equity panels featuring venture capital and growth equity investors from Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division.
• McKinsey & CompanycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerMajor consulting firm partner providing panelists for consulting career events and seniors panels featuring McKinsey business analysts.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner providing summer associates and business analysts for consulting panel events.
• Wells Fargo Corporate and Investment BankingcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnered with Wells Fargo CIB for TMT Investment Banking events, featuring Managing Director Vartan Aznavoorion, Head of Technology M&A.
• J.P. MorgancoreGTM or Marketing PartnerHost for fireside chat with Carlos Hernandez, Executive Chair of Investment and Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan.
• CiticoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner for macro strategy and interview prep events featuring Managing Director Mike Newton and Head of FX Institutional Sales Scott Silver.
• Morgan StanleycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner hosting info sessions for quantitative analysis and sales & trading summer analyst positions.
• RBC Capital MarketscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner for recruitment workshop with Senior Campus Recruiter Marc Caporiccio, focusing on early ID diversity recruitment initiatives.
• OC&C Strategy ConsultantscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner for case workshops providing practical consulting case interview preparation.
• Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner for events on labor market disparities during the pandemic, featuring Federal Reserve economists and researchers.
• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner for development economics events featuring MIT professor Dr. Benjamin Olken and Senior Policy Associate Emily Sylvia.
• Varde PartnersminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPrivate equity firm partner for career workshop with director Kaushik Ravi, ex-VP at Goldman Sachs and founder of Elevate Career Network.
• Raine GroupminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBoutique investment bank partner hosting small group coffee chat events for recruitment.
• Elevate Career NetworkminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCareer coaching platform founded by Kaushik Ravi for investment banking and private equity career preparation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Columbia Business Society: Columbia University pre-professional student organization focused on business careers. Direct peer operating on the same campus with overlapping corporate partner base and similar career-event programming targeting the same undergraduate audience.
• Columbia Venture Partners: Columbia student organization focused on venture capital and entrepreneurship. Already an active partner; competes for similar student mindshare, corporate sponsor attention, and event attendance in adjacent verticals.
• Penn Wharton Undergraduate Finance Society: Peer pre-professional finance organization at Penn/Wharton with comparable structure (corporate events, speaker programming, industry pipelines). Highly comparable model at a top-tier peer business school competing for the same national recruiter mindshare.
• Harvard Financial Analysts Club: Harvard undergraduate finance and investing organization. Analogous pre-professional structure with corporate partnerships, speaker events, and skill-building workshops — a leading peer institution in the same Ivy talent market.
• MIT Sloan Finance Club: MIT Sloan student organization running finance-focused programming including speaker panels, recruiting events, and skill workshops. Comparable in mission, structure, and corporate partner mix to the Columbia Economics Society.
• NYU Stern Investment Club: NYU Stern student organization running finance and investing programming with corporate partners. Closest geographic peer operating in the same NYC recruiting market with overlapping students and recruiters.
• Columbia Pre-Law Society: Fellow Columbia pre-professional student organization for law careers. Operates under same institutional constraints (student-led, university-based, corporate partnerships, event-driven) and competes for similar E-board applicants and campus attention.
• Yale Undergraduate Economics Society: Yale undergraduate economics organization running speaker events and career programming. Direct functional peer within the Ivy League talent market, serving the same recruiter pipeline of finance and consulting employers.
• Cornell Financial Club: Cornell University pre-professional finance student organization with corporate partnerships and event programming. Comparable structure and audience (Ivy+ undergraduates targeting banking/consulting careers).

Emerging players

• RocketBlocks: Consulting interview preparation platform already partnered with the society. Comparable in that it targets the same Columbia student segment for finance/consulting career preparation, but operates commercially as a paid digital offering rather than a campus club.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ColumbiaEconomicsSociety
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/columbia-economics-society

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles24 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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