MBA Recruiters by School · Media & Entertainment
Riot Games: which MBA programs it recruits from
Riot Games (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: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 24 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 66 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Part of Tencent. Schools print Riot Games under its own name; its parent has a separate entry in the tool.
Schools whose employer lists name Riot Games
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Pennsylvania Wharton, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, 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) · National Basketball Association (5)
Questions about Riot Games
Which MBA programs does Riot Games recruit from?
Riot Games 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, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Berkeley Haas and UCLA Anderson.
Does Riot Games hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Riot Games 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 Riot Games sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 24 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 66 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 Riot Games 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.