MBA Recruiters by School · Health Care
AbbVie: which MBA programs it recruits from
AbbVie (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 7 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits narrowly, so school choice matters if this is your target.
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 66 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 161 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Allergan Aesthetics.
Schools whose employer lists name AbbVie
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Michigan Ross | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Columbia CBS, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones, Emory Goizueta, Minnesota Carlson. 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) · Abbott (11)
Questions about AbbVie
Which MBA programs does AbbVie recruit from?
AbbVie is named on the published employer lists of 7 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM and Michigan Ross.
Does AbbVie hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists AbbVie 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 AbbVie sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 66 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 161 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 AbbVie 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.