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Activision Blizzard: which MBA programs it recruits from
Activision Blizzard (Media & Entertainment) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 9 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 30 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 150 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Part of Microsoft. Schools print Activision Blizzard under its own name; its parent has its own page.
Schools also print it as: Activision Blizzard King, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Schools whose employer lists name Activision Blizzard
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, 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 media & entertainment employers with wide reach
EA - Electronic Arts (11) · Warner Bros. (8) · Sony (7) · Spotify (7) · Paramount Global (6) · The Walt Disney Company (6) · National Basketball Association (5) · Riot Games (5)
Questions about Activision Blizzard
Which MBA programs does Activision Blizzard recruit from?
Activision Blizzard is named on the published employer lists of 9 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Yale SOM, NYU Stern and UCLA Anderson.
Does Activision Blizzard hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Activision Blizzard 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 Activision Blizzard sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 30 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 150 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 Activision Blizzard 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.