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Accel Partners: which MBA programs it recruits from
Accel Partners (Venture Capital) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 1 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: no approved new-employment petition was found under this name in USCIS data for fiscal years 2024 to 2026. Roughly one such employer in ten files under a different legal name, so treat this as "none found" rather than "never".
About Accel Partners
Accel is a global venture capital firm investing in enterprise, SaaS and consumer companies from seed through growth, with past investments including Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, Spotify and CrowdStrike. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it also has offices in San Francisco, London and India. Accel publishes no careers page for the firm itself (its jobs site lists portfolio company openings), so MBAs seeking firm roles approach it directly.
Official links: Website
Read from the company's own pages in October 2026. Programs and deadlines change every cycle, so check the careers page before you plan around it.
Schools whose employer lists name Accel Partners
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, 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 venture capital employers with wide reach
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Questions about Accel Partners
Which MBA programs does Accel Partners recruit from?
Accel Partners is named on the published employer lists of 1 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Pennsylvania Wharton.
Does Accel Partners hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists Accel Partners as an employer for the Class of 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Accel Partners sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: no approved new-employment petition was found under this name in USCIS data for fiscal years 2024 to 2026. Roughly one such employer in ten files under a different legal name, so treat this as "none found" rather than "never". The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to Accel Partners 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.