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Houlihan Lokey: which MBA programs it recruits from
Houlihan Lokey (Financial Services) 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 22 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Houlihan Lokey
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| USC Marshall | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, 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 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 Houlihan Lokey
Which MBA programs does Houlihan Lokey recruit from?
Houlihan Lokey 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: Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Yale SOM, NYU Stern, UVA Darden, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Rice Jones.
Does Houlihan Lokey hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists Houlihan Lokey 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 Houlihan Lokey 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 22 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 Houlihan Lokey 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.