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Dick's Sporting Goods: which MBA programs it recruits from
Dick's Sporting Goods (Retail) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 10 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 6 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Foot Locker.
Schools whose employer lists name Dick's Sporting Goods
| 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 | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Michigan Ross | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UT McCombs | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, 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 retail employers with wide reach
Walmart (21) · Starbucks Coffee Company (11) · Chewy (8) · Target (7) · Wayfair (7) · Whole Foods Market (7) · McMaster-Carr (6) · Restaurant Brands International (6)
Questions about Dick's Sporting Goods
Which MBA programs does Dick's Sporting Goods recruit from?
Dick's Sporting Goods is named on the published employer lists of 10 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs and UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Does Dick's Sporting Goods hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Dick's Sporting Goods 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 Dick's Sporting Goods sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 6 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 Dick's Sporting Goods 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.