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American Airlines: which MBA programs it recruits from

American Airlines (Transportation / Logistics) 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 60 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 125 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

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Schools whose employer lists name American Airlines

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Duke Fuqua2025full employer listjobs and pay
Michigan Ross2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UVA Darden2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
UT McCombs2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Georgetown McDonough2024full employer listjobs and pay
UW Foster2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Indiana Kelley2025full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Rice Jones2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Emory Goizueta2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UNC Kenan-Flagler, 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 transportation / logistics employers with wide reach

Delta Air Lines (12) · United Parcel Service (UPS) (7) · Republic Services (6) · DoorDash (5) · FedEx (5) · United Airlines (5) · Via Transportation (3)

Questions about American Airlines

Which MBA programs does American Airlines recruit from?

American Airlines 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: Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones and Emory Goizueta.

Does American Airlines hire MBAs from Duke Fuqua?

Duke Fuqua lists American Airlines as an employer for the Class of 2025. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.

Does American Airlines sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 60 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 125 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 American Airlines 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.