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Citigroup: which MBA programs it recruits from
Citigroup (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 20 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: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 371 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 853 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Citi, Citigroup Banking.
About Citigroup
Citi is a New York global bank with roots in 1812, doing business in nearly 160 countries and employing about 226,000 people at the end of 2025 across Services, Markets, Banking and International, Wealth and US Personal Banking. Its Full-Time Associate program is for candidates who have completed an MBA, master's or PhD, starting in July in New York, London, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, across Investment Banking, Finance, Enterprise Services and Public Affairs, Human Resources and Quants; Summer Associate internships are posted separately on jobs.citi.com.
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 Citigroup
Not on the list at
Berkeley Haas, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, 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 financial services employers with wide reach
Bank of America (25) · J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Jefferies (19)
Questions about Citigroup
Which MBA programs does Citigroup recruit from?
Citigroup is named on the published employer lists of 20 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, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern and Duke Fuqua and 10 more.
Does Citigroup hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Citigroup as an employer for the Classes of 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 Citigroup sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 371 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 853 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 Citigroup 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.