MBA Recruiters by School · Retail
The Home Depot: which MBA programs it recruits from
The Home Depot (Retail) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 3 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 54 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 157 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name The Home Depot
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT Sloan | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, 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, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones, 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) · Starbucks Coffee Company (11) · Dick's Sporting Goods (10) · Chewy (8) · Target (7) · Wayfair (7) · Whole Foods Market (7) · McMaster-Carr (6)
Questions about The Home Depot
Which MBA programs does The Home Depot recruit from?
The Home Depot is named on the published employer lists of 3 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: MIT Sloan, Carnegie Mellon Tepper and Emory Goizueta.
Does The Home Depot hire MBAs from MIT Sloan?
MIT Sloan lists The Home Depot 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 The Home Depot sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 54 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 157 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 The Home Depot 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.