MBA Recruiters by School · Health Care
Abbott: which MBA programs it recruits from
Abbott (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 11 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 25 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 51 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Abbott
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| USC Marshall | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Vanderbilt Owen | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Minnesota Carlson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia CBS, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Rice Jones. A gap means the school did not print the name for those classes, which is not proof it never hires there: some schools publish only companies that hired several graduates, and a few publish a hand-picked selection. The school pages say how each list was built.
Other health care employers with wide reach
Johnson & Johnson (21) · Pfizer (17) · DaVita (16) · Eli Lilly (16) · UnitedHealth Group (16) · Amgen (13) · Medtronic (13) · Bristol-Myers Squibb (11)
Questions about Abbott
Which MBA programs does Abbott recruit from?
Abbott is named on the published employer lists of 11 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt Owen, Emory Goizueta and Minnesota Carlson.
Does Abbott hire MBAs from Northwestern Kellogg?
Northwestern Kellogg lists Abbott as an employer for the Class of 2023. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Abbott sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 25 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 51 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial). The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to Abbott from a school that doesn't list it?
Most hiring at firms like this comes through networking rather than on-campus recruiting, and the schools that do list it are where that network is densest. Build your school list around the programs that name your target employers, and say so in your applications. The report's How to choose schools section explains how.