MBA Recruiters by School · Private Equity
Blackstone: which MBA programs it recruits from
Blackstone (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 4 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 24 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 69 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: The Blackstone Group L.P.
About Blackstone
Blackstone, headquartered in New York, describes itself as the world's largest alternative asset manager, with more than $1.3 trillion under management across real estate, private equity, credit and insurance, and multi-asset investing, and about 5,285 employees at the end of 2025. Its students page covers a 10-week Summer Associate internship for first-year business school students and full-time Associate roles for second-years; US summer postings open January to March and full-time postings as early as July, with applications made on Blackstone's own site.
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 Blackstone
| 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 | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, 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
Apollo Global (8) · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (8) · Partners Group (8) · Bain Capital (6) · Evergreen Services Group (6) · Shore Capital Partners (6) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5)
Questions about Blackstone
Which MBA programs does Blackstone recruit from?
Blackstone is named on the published employer lists of 4 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth and Yale SOM.
Does Blackstone hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Blackstone 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 Blackstone sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 24 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 69 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 Blackstone 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.