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Franklin Templeton Investments: which MBA programs it recruits from
Franklin Templeton Investments (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 6 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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Benefit Street Partners, ClearBridge Investments, LLC, Fiduciary Trust International, Lexington Partners.
Schools also print it as: Franklin Templeton.
Schools whose employer lists name Franklin Templeton Investments
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, 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 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) · Citigroup (20)
Questions about Franklin Templeton Investments
Which MBA programs does Franklin Templeton Investments recruit from?
Franklin Templeton Investments is named on the published employer lists of 6 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas and Yale SOM.
Does Franklin Templeton Investments hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Franklin Templeton Investments as an employer for the Classes of 2023 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 Franklin Templeton Investments sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 2 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 4 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 Franklin Templeton Investments 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.