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Bain & Company: which MBA programs it recruits from

Bain & Company (Consulting) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 25 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. That puts it among the firms that recruit almost everywhere.

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 34 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 225 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

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About Bain & Company

Bain & Company is a management consulting firm founded in 1973 that advises leaders on strategy, technology and change, with 67 offices in 40 countries and a large private equity client base. MBAs join through the Summer Associate internship (campus deadlines in November) and full-time consulting roles, and Bain runs school-specific recruiting pages and teams for programs such as MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, NYU Stern and Darden.

Official links: Website · Students and graduates 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 Bain & Company

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, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Columbia CBS2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Berkeley Haas2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Yale SOM2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Dartmouth Tuck2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
NYU Stern2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Duke Fuqua2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Michigan Ross2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UVA Darden2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Cornell Johnson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Carnegie Mellon Tepper2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
USC Marshall2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UT McCombs2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UNC Kenan-Flagler2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Georgetown McDonough2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UW Foster2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Indiana Kelley2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Rice Jones2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Emory Goizueta2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

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 consulting employers with wide reach

Boston Consulting Group (26) · Deloitte (26) · EY (26) · McKinsey & Company (26) · PwC (25) · Kearney (23) · L.E.K. Consulting (20) · Accenture (19)

Questions about Bain & Company

Which MBA programs does Bain & Company recruit from?

Bain & Company is named on the published employer lists of 25 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, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck and NYU Stern and 15 more.

Does Bain & Company hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists Bain & Company 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 Bain & Company sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 34 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 225 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 Bain & Company 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.