MBA Recruiters by School · Consulting
Gartner: which MBA programs it recruits from
Gartner (Consulting) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 8 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 10 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 19 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Gartner
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UT McCombs | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Georgetown McDonough | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UW Foster | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Minnesota Carlson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen. 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 Gartner
Which MBA programs does Gartner recruit from?
Gartner is named on the published employer lists of 8 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Rice Jones, Emory Goizueta and Minnesota Carlson.
Does Gartner hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Gartner as an employer for the Class of 2023. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Gartner sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 10 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 19 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 Gartner 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.