MBA Recruiters by School · Health Care
AstraZeneca: which MBA programs it recruits from
AstraZeneca (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 3 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 41 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 104 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
Schools also print it as: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
Schools whose employer lists name AstraZeneca
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, 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 health care employers with wide reach
Johnson & Johnson (21) · Pfizer (17) · DaVita (16) · Eli Lilly (16) · UnitedHealth Group (16) · Amgen (13) · Medtronic (13) · Abbott (11)
Questions about AstraZeneca
Which MBA programs does AstraZeneca recruit from?
AstraZeneca is named on the published employer lists of 3 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Chicago Booth, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Rice Jones.
Does AstraZeneca hire MBAs from Chicago Booth?
Chicago Booth lists AstraZeneca 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 AstraZeneca sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 41 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 104 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 AstraZeneca 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.