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Starbucks Coffee Company: which MBA programs it recruits from

Starbucks Coffee Company (Retail) 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 9 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 37 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

Schools also print it as: Starbucks.

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Schools whose employer lists name Starbucks Coffee Company

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Harvard HBS2024full employer listjobs and pay
Chicago Booth2025full employer listjobs and pay
Northwestern Kellogg2023full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2024full employer listjobs and pay
NYU Stern2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Duke Fuqua2025full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UT McCombs2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
UNC Kenan-Flagler2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UW Foster2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Pennsylvania Wharton, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, 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 retail employers with wide reach

Walmart (21) · Dick's Sporting Goods (10) · Chewy (8) · Target (7) · Wayfair (7) · Whole Foods Market (7) · McMaster-Carr (6) · Restaurant Brands International (6)

Questions about Starbucks Coffee Company

Which MBA programs does Starbucks Coffee Company recruit from?

Starbucks Coffee Company 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, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UW Foster and Vanderbilt Owen.

Does Starbucks Coffee Company hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists Starbucks Coffee Company as an employer for the Class of 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.

Does Starbucks Coffee Company sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 9 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 37 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 Starbucks Coffee Company 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.