MBA Recruiters by School · Media & Entertainment
Spotify: which MBA programs it recruits from
Spotify (Media & Entertainment) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 7 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 94 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Spotify Technology S.A.
Schools whose employer lists name Spotify
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UW Foster | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Vanderbilt Owen | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, 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 media & entertainment employers with wide reach
EA - Electronic Arts (11) · Activision Blizzard (9) · Warner Bros. (8) · Sony (7) · Paramount Global (6) · The Walt Disney Company (6) · National Basketball Association (5) · Riot Games (5)
Questions about Spotify
Which MBA programs does Spotify recruit from?
Spotify is named on the published employer lists of 7 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia CBS, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UW Foster and Vanderbilt Owen.
Does Spotify hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Spotify as an employer for the Classes of 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 Spotify 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 94 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 Spotify 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.