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Cognizant: which MBA programs it recruits from
Cognizant (Consulting) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 9 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: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 743 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4,463 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Cognizant Consulting, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Cognizant Business Consulting.
Schools whose employer lists name Cognizant
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYU Stern | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| USC Marshall | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Georgetown McDonough | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, UT McCombs, UW Foster, Vanderbilt Owen, 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 consulting employers with wide reach
Boston Consulting Group (26) · Deloitte (26) · EY (26) · McKinsey & Company (26) · Bain & Company (25) · PwC (25) · Kearney (23) · L.E.K. Consulting (20)
Questions about Cognizant
Which MBA programs does Cognizant recruit from?
Cognizant is named on the published employer lists of 9 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: NYU Stern, UVA Darden, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, Indiana Kelley and Emory Goizueta.
Does Cognizant hire MBAs from NYU Stern?
NYU Stern lists Cognizant 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 Cognizant sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 743 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4,463 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 Cognizant 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.