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PayPal: which MBA programs it recruits from

PayPal (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 11 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 168 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 421 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

Also listed separately: Venmo.

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Schools whose employer lists name PayPal

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Harvard HBS2023full employer listjobs and pay
Pennsylvania Wharton2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Chicago Booth2023full employer listjobs and pay
Northwestern Kellogg2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Columbia CBS2023full employer listjobs and pay
Berkeley Haas2023full employer listjobs and pay
NYU Stern2025full employer listjobs and pay
Carnegie Mellon Tepper2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2024full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, 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 financial services employers with wide reach

Bank of America (25) · J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20)

Questions about PayPal

Which MBA programs does PayPal recruit from?

PayPal is named on the published employer lists of 11 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, NYU Stern, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UCLA Anderson and Vanderbilt Owen.

Does PayPal hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists PayPal as an employer for the Class of 2023. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.

Does PayPal sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 168 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 421 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 PayPal 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.