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Apollo Global: which MBA programs it recruits from
Apollo Global (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 8 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 15 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 38 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Bridge Investments.
Schools also print it as: Apollo Global Management.
About Apollo Global
Apollo Global Management is a New York alternative asset manager and retirement services provider founded in 1990, investing across credit, equity, real assets and financial services and owning the annuity company Athene. It reported about $1.05 trillion of assets under management at June 30, 2026. There is no student or MBA page; the careers page describes the associate role as driving the deal process, which is where MBA hires join.
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 Apollo Global
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, 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 private equity employers with wide reach
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (8) · Partners Group (8) · Bain Capital (6) · Evergreen Services Group (6) · Shore Capital Partners (6) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5) · Alpine Investors (5)
Questions about Apollo Global
Which MBA programs does Apollo Global recruit from?
Apollo Global is named on the published employer lists of 8 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, NYU Stern and UCLA Anderson.
Does Apollo Global hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Apollo Global 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 Apollo Global sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 15 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 38 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 Apollo Global 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.