MBA Recruiters by School · Consulting
Mercer: which MBA programs it recruits from
Mercer (Consulting) 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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 6 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 14 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Part of Marsh McLennan. Schools print Mercer under its own name; its parent has its own page.
Schools whose employer lists name Mercer
| 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 |
| USC Marshall | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Vanderbilt Owen | 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, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, 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 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 Mercer
Which MBA programs does Mercer recruit from?
Mercer 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: Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Vanderbilt Owen.
Does Mercer hire MBAs from Northwestern Kellogg?
Northwestern Kellogg lists Mercer 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 Mercer sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 6 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 14 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 Mercer 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.