MBA Recruiters by School · Automotive
Ford Motor Company: which MBA programs it recruits from
Ford Motor Company (Automotive) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 12 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: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 100 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 220 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Ford.
Schools whose employer lists name Ford Motor Company
| 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, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Michigan Ross | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| USC Marshall | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Columbia CBS, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, 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 automotive employers with wide reach
Tesla (13) · General Motors (9) · Rivian Automotive (8) · Zoox (6) · Cruise (4) · Toyota (4) · Bridgestone Corporation (3) · Harbinger Motors (3)
Questions about Ford Motor Company
Which MBA programs does Ford Motor Company recruit from?
Ford Motor Company is named on the published employer lists of 12 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, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Rice Jones.
Does Ford Motor Company hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Ford Motor Company 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 Ford Motor Company sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 100 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 220 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 Ford Motor Company 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.