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OpenAI: which MBA programs it recruits from
OpenAI (Technology) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 2 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 21 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 126 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Also listed separately: io Products.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and product company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, with products including ChatGPT, Codex and the API platform and about 4,500 employees in 2026. Its Emerging Talent page covers internships, a research residency and early-career roles without an MBA program; the careers search lists roughly 800 open roles across Product Management, Strategy and Operations, Finance, Sales, Partnerships, Marketing and Growth, the usual MBA entry points.
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 OpenAI
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Pennsylvania Wharton, 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, 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 technology employers with wide reach
Amazon (26) · Microsoft (26) · Google (23) · Adobe (19) · Apple (19) · IBM (19) · Cisco Systems (17) · Samsung (16)
Questions about OpenAI
Which MBA programs does OpenAI recruit from?
OpenAI is named on the published employer lists of 2 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS and Yale SOM.
Does OpenAI hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists OpenAI 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 OpenAI sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 21 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 126 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 OpenAI 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.