If by ‘off-campus’ you mean that you do not attend a college or university visited by GS for recruiting or interviewing purposes, there is no reason you still can’t get hired there if you’re good enough – and that’s probably never been more true than it is today.
Goldman considers – and hires – candidates from scores of universities (hundreds, probably, come to think of it) that it does not physically visit. In fact, they’ve introduced a variety of innovations to their recruiting process to enable that.
Why would they do that? Two reasons. Firstly, the firm has a relentless desire to capture the best talent. A former senior Goldman leader, Mark Winkelman, once observed [not an exact quote]: “We work in similar looking offices [to our competitors]. We use the same computers, fly on the same airlines and stay in the same hotels. We even have the same clients! We seek to separate ourselves from our competition through the talent we hire, our hard work and the quality of our leadership.”
Secondly, the firm retains a deep commitment to diversifying its workforce in every sense – academic, demographic, geographic.