MBA Recruiters by School · Consumer Products
Hershey: which MBA programs it recruits from
Hershey (Consumer Products) 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: 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: LesserEvil Brand Snack Co..
Schools also print it as: The Hershey Company.
Schools whose employer lists name Hershey
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Duke Fuqua | 2024 | 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 |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Georgetown McDonough | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, 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 consumer products employers with wide reach
Nike (18) · PepsiCo Frito Lay (18) · Procter & Gamble (17) · Mars (13) · Mattel (13) · General Mills (12) · Nestlé (12) · AB-InBev (11)
Questions about Hershey
Which MBA programs does Hershey recruit from?
Hershey 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: Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, UVA Darden, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, Indiana Kelley and Emory Goizueta.
Does Hershey hire MBAs from Northwestern Kellogg?
Northwestern Kellogg lists Hershey 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 Hershey 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 Hershey 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.