MBA Recruiters by School · Health Care
Novo Nordisk: which MBA programs it recruits from
Novo Nordisk (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 4 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 18 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 38 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Schools whose employer lists name Novo Nordisk
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, 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 health care employers with wide reach
Johnson & Johnson (21) · Pfizer (17) · DaVita (16) · Eli Lilly (16) · UnitedHealth Group (16) · Amgen (13) · Medtronic (13) · Abbott (11)
Questions about Novo Nordisk
Which MBA programs does Novo Nordisk recruit from?
Novo Nordisk is named on the published employer lists of 4 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Pennsylvania Wharton, Yale SOM, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Indiana Kelley.
Does Novo Nordisk hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists Novo Nordisk as an employer for the Class of 2025. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Novo Nordisk sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 18 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 38 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 Novo Nordisk 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.