MBA Recruiters by School · Technology
LinkedIn: which MBA programs it recruits from
LinkedIn (Technology) 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: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 169 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 460 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Part of Microsoft. Schools print LinkedIn under its own name; its parent has its own page.
Schools whose employer lists name LinkedIn
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, 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 technology employers with wide reach
Amazon (26) · Microsoft (26) · Google (23) · Adobe (19) · Apple (19) · IBM (19) · Cisco Systems (17) · Samsung (16)
Questions about LinkedIn
Which MBA programs does LinkedIn recruit from?
LinkedIn 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: Pennsylvania Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, NYU Stern and UVA Darden.
Does LinkedIn hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 169 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 460 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 LinkedIn 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.