MBA Recruiters by School · Private Equity
Advent International: which MBA programs it recruits from
Advent International (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 4 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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 2 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
About Advent International
Advent International is a global private equity firm founded in 1984 that buys and builds companies alongside their management teams, with investment teams in 14 countries. At the close of its $25 billion GPE X fund it reported more than $100 billion under management and over 390 investments in 41 countries. Advent publishes no MBA page; its Advent at Work page describes associates as full members of investment teams with an annual global associate training program.
Official links: Website · Careers page
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 Advent International
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, 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 private equity employers with wide reach
Apollo Global (8) · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (8) · Partners Group (8) · Bain Capital (6) · Evergreen Services Group (6) · Shore Capital Partners (6) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5)
Questions about Advent International
Which MBA programs does Advent International recruit from?
Advent International is named on the published employer lists of 4 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Columbia CBS and Yale SOM.
Does Advent International hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Advent International as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Advent International sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 2 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 Advent International 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.