MBA Recruiters by School · Private Equity
Partners Group: which MBA programs it recruits from
Partners Group (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 8 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 17 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Partners Group
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, 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 private equity employers with wide reach
Apollo Global (8) · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (8) · Bain Capital (6) · Evergreen Services Group (6) · Shore Capital Partners (6) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5) · Alpine Investors (5)
Questions about Partners Group
Which MBA programs does Partners Group recruit from?
Partners Group is named on the published employer lists of 8 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, UVA Darden and Carnegie Mellon Tepper.
Does Partners Group hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Partners Group 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 Partners Group 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 17 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 Partners Group 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.