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Morgan Stanley: which MBA programs it recruits from
Morgan Stanley (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 21 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. That puts it among the firms that recruit almost everywhere.
Its H-1B record: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 266 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 740 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: Mesa West Capital.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm founded in 1935, with more than 80,000 employees in 41 countries across Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Capital Markets, Sales and Trading, Research and Investment Management. Its students and graduates page covers internships and full-time programs, and its job search has an MBA education filter; MBA hiring runs through summer associate programs in divisions such as investment banking, posted as individual openings.
Official links: Website · Students and graduates page
Read from the company's own pages in October 2026. Programs and deadlines change every cycle, so check the careers page before you plan around it.
Schools whose employer lists name Morgan Stanley
Not on the list at
Carnegie Mellon Tepper, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Vanderbilt Owen, 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) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20) · Jefferies (19)
Questions about Morgan Stanley
Which MBA programs does Morgan Stanley recruit from?
Morgan Stanley is named on the published employer lists of 21 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, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck and NYU Stern and 11 more.
Does Morgan Stanley hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Morgan Stanley as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 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 Morgan Stanley sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: anchor sponsor. USCIS approved 266 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 740 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 Morgan Stanley 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.