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Carlyle: which MBA programs it recruits from
Carlyle (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 5 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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
About Carlyle
Carlyle is a global investment firm founded in Washington, D.C. in 1987 and listed on Nasdaq, operating in Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions (including AlpInvest), with roughly $426 billion under management and nearly 2,200 employees across 28 offices. Its careers page lists Investment Professional roles across corporate private equity, real assets, credit and investment solutions, plus investor relations; there is no separate student or MBA page.
Official links: Website · Careers 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 Carlyle
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, 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 Carlyle
Which MBA programs does Carlyle recruit from?
Carlyle is named on the published employer lists of 5 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg and NYU Stern.
Does Carlyle hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Carlyle as an employer for the Classes of 2023 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 Carlyle sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4 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 Carlyle 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.