MBA Recruiters by School · Private Equity
StepStone Group: which MBA programs it recruits from
StepStone Group (Private Equity) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 6 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 3 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 11 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name StepStone Group
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Georgetown McDonough | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, 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) · Partners Group (8) · Bain Capital (6) · Evergreen Services Group (6) · Shore Capital Partners (6) · Actis (5) · Alpine Investors (5)
Questions about StepStone Group
Which MBA programs does StepStone Group recruit from?
StepStone Group is named on the published employer lists of 6 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler and Georgetown McDonough.
Does StepStone Group hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists StepStone Group 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 StepStone Group sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 3 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 11 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 StepStone 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.