MBA Recruiters by School · Real Estate
CBRE: which MBA programs it recruits from
CBRE (Real Estate) 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: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 22 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 64 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Trammell Crow Company.
Schools also print it as: CBRE Investment Management.
Schools whose employer lists name CBRE
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UT McCombs | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, 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 real estate employers with wide reach
The Related Companies (10) · Trammell Crow Company (8) · Hines (7) · Zillow Group (6) · Bechtel Corporation (5) · CIM Group (5) · Greystar Real Estate Partners (5) · Tishman Speyer (5)
Questions about CBRE
Which MBA programs does CBRE recruit from?
CBRE 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, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs and Indiana Kelley.
Does CBRE hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists CBRE as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does CBRE sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 22 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 64 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 CBRE 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.