Elite Finance Training
Your Unfair Advantage:
Breaking Into PE, VC,
& High Finance
An elite mentorship and training platform built by buy-side professionals โ for ambitious students and early-career professionals who are serious about building a career in private equity, venture capital, and investment management.
What is BuySide Studio?
Real investors.
Real training.
Real results.
Watch our team walk you through exactly what BuySide Studio is, who it's built for, and what it means to become a BuySide Scholar or Fellow.
Explore Programs โLearn from the best
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Built by buy-side professionals.
Every instructor has operated in the deals, the boardrooms, and the recruiting pipelines you're trying to break into.
Najeeb Baqui
Connector in Chief
Strategy, relationships, and storytelling โ connecting people, capital, and opportunity.
Douglas Groat
Deal Architect
Structure, execution, and systems that turn strategy into results.
Jeff Noland
Real World Professor
Investor, founder, and mentor โ where modeling meets real-world investing.
Our Community
Scholars and Fellows from the nation's top universities.
BuySide Studio attracts students and professionals from elite institutions across the country โ united by the same ambition to break into high finance.
Where BuySide scholars are headed
The firms our community targets.
From bulge-bracket banks to the world's most selective alternative asset managers โ our programs are built around the firms that matter.
Hedge Funds & Asset Managers
How to engage
Two paths. Your choice.
Whether you start with a program or apply directly to the Fellowship โ both lead to the same standard of excellence.
Scholar Path
Start with a Program
Begin with Fundamentals or jump straight into the Masterclass. Build finance fluency, then apply to the Fellowship when ready.
- BuySide Fundamentals โ flexible, self-directed
- BuySide Masterclass โ live cohort
- Apply to Fellowship anytime
Fellowship Path ยท By Application
Apply Directly
No prior BuySide program required. Serious students and early-career professionals can apply to the Fellowship directly.
- Complete the Fellowship application
- Selected candidates contacted within 3-5 days
- Accepted Fellows begin their coaching track
BuySide Scholars
Don't take our word for it.
Hear directly from students and professionals who went through BuySide programs.
No Prerequisites ยท By Application ยท Selective Admission
The BuySide Fellowship
A small, vetted cohort of ambitious students and early-career professionals selected each cycle for our most intensive coaching relationship. No prior BuySide program required โ acceptance is earned through the application process alone.
Questions
Frequently asked.
BuySide Studio is built for ambitious students and early-career professionals who are serious about breaking into high finance. Whether you're a sophomore targeting summer internships, an international student building your US network, or a young professional looking to move into the buy side โ if the ambition is there, there's a path for you here.
No. The Fellowship is open to any serious candidate โ student or early-career professional โ regardless of whether they have completed Fundamentals or the Masterclass. What matters is ambition, fit, and readiness.
BuySide Scholars are students or professionals who have completed the Fundamentals or Masterclass programs. BuySide Fellows are a select group accepted through a formal application process into our high-touch, long-term coaching relationship.
A 4-hour live cohort session taught by active investors, covering relationship capital, investor thinking, financial modeling, and deal structuring โ plus permanent Scholar access to recordings and the BuySide Scholar community.
Yes. The Fellowship is open to early-career professionals who are within a few years of graduation and looking to transition into private equity, venture capital, or high finance. The same selective standard applies.
Yes. We work with students and young professionals from around the world โ whether you're currently in the US or planning to be.
No. Investment details are discussed privately with qualified applicants after the initial review.
The minimum commitment is 6 months. We offer preferred 12-month and full career-track 18-month programs.
