MBA Recruiters by School · Retail
Target: which MBA programs it recruits from
Target (Retail) 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 12 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 44 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Target
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Minnesota Carlson | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones, Emory Goizueta. 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) · Starbucks Coffee Company (11) · Dick's Sporting Goods (10) · Chewy (8) · Wayfair (7) · Whole Foods Market (7) · McMaster-Carr (6) · Restaurant Brands International (6)
Questions about Target
Which MBA programs does Target recruit from?
Target 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, Yale SOM, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, Indiana Kelley and Minnesota Carlson.
Does Target hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Target as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Target sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 12 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 44 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 Target 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.