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Bank of America: which MBA programs it recruits from
Bank of America (Financial Services) 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 210 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 571 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Merrill.
Schools also print it as: Bank of America Securities, BofA Securities Inc.
About Bank of America
Bank of America, headquartered in Charlotte, serves more than 69 million clients through consumer banking, wealth management (Merrill and the Private Bank), global banking and global markets, with operations in more than 35 countries and about 213,000 employees at the end of 2025. MBA students apply to Summer Associate programs such as Global Investment Banking, Strategy and Management and Global HR, which require an MBA in progress and at least two years of prior work experience.
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 Bank of America
Not on the list at
UW Foster. 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
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20) · Jefferies (19)
Questions about Bank of America
Which MBA programs does Bank of America recruit from?
Bank of America 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 Bank of America hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Bank of America 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 Bank of America sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 210 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 571 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 Bank of America 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.