MBA Recruiters by School · Health Care
Biogen: which MBA programs it recruits from
Biogen (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 10 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 14 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 33 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Biogen Idec, Inc., Biogen Idec.
Schools whose employer lists name Biogen
| 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 | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Vanderbilt Owen | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, 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 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 Biogen
Which MBA programs does Biogen recruit from?
Biogen is named on the published employer lists of 10 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, Yale SOM, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UCLA Anderson, Vanderbilt Owen and Emory Goizueta.
Does Biogen hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Biogen 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 Biogen sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 14 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 33 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 Biogen 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.