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American Express: which MBA programs it recruits from

American Express (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 16 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 147 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 299 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

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Schools whose employer lists name American Express

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Harvard HBS2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Pennsylvania Wharton2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Chicago Booth2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Northwestern Kellogg2023, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2025full employer listjobs and pay
Columbia CBS2024full employer listjobs and pay
Yale SOM2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
NYU Stern2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Michigan Ross2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UVA Darden2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Carnegie Mellon Tepper2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UNC Kenan-Flagler2025full employer listjobs and pay
Georgetown McDonough2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023full employer listjobs and pay
Emory Goizueta2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Rice Jones, 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 financial services employers with wide reach

Bank of America (25) · J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20)

Questions about American Express

Which MBA programs does American Express recruit from?

American Express is named on the published employer lists of 16 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, Michigan Ross and UVA Darden and 6 more.

Does American Express hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists American Express as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 and 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 Express sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 147 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 299 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 Express 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.