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Mars: which MBA programs it recruits from

Mars (Consumer Products) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 13 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.

Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 8 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 21 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

Also listed separately: Mars Petcare.

Schools also print it as: Kellanova, Mars Wrigley, MARS Wrigley.

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Schools whose employer lists name Mars

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Harvard HBS2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Pennsylvania Wharton2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Chicago Booth2024full employer listjobs and pay
Northwestern Kellogg2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Columbia CBS2023full employer listjobs and pay
NYU Stern2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Michigan Ross2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2024full employer listjobs and pay
UT McCombs2024full employer listjobs and pay
UNC Kenan-Flagler2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Indiana Kelley2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, 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 consumer products employers with wide reach

Nike (18) · PepsiCo Frito Lay (18) · Procter & Gamble (17) · Mattel (13) · General Mills (12) · Nestlé (12) · AB-InBev (11) · E. & J. Gallo Winery (11)

Questions about Mars

Which MBA programs does Mars recruit from?

Mars is named on the published employer lists of 13 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UCLA Anderson and UT McCombs and 3 more.

Does Mars hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists Mars as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.

Does Mars sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 8 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 21 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 Mars 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.