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National Basketball Association: which MBA programs it recruits from
National Basketball Association (Media & Entertainment) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 5 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 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 1 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name National Basketball Association
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, 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 media & entertainment employers with wide reach
EA - Electronic Arts (11) · Activision Blizzard (9) · Warner Bros. (8) · Sony (7) · Spotify (7) · Paramount Global (6) · The Walt Disney Company (6) · Riot Games (5)
Questions about National Basketball Association
Which MBA programs does National Basketball Association recruit from?
National Basketball Association is named on the published employer lists of 5 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS and NYU Stern.
Does National Basketball Association hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists National Basketball Association 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 National Basketball Association sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 1 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 National Basketball Association 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.