MBA Recruiters by School · Private Equity
The Sterling Group: which MBA programs it recruits from
The Sterling Group (Private Equity) 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: no approved new-employment petition was found under this name in USCIS data for fiscal years 2024 to 2026. Roughly one such employer in ten files under a different legal name, so treat this as "none found" rather than "never".
Schools also print it as: The Sterling Group, L.P.
Schools whose employer lists name The Sterling Group
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, 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, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, 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) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5)
Questions about The Sterling Group
Which MBA programs does The Sterling Group recruit from?
The Sterling Group 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: Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth and Rice Jones.
Does The Sterling Group hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists The Sterling Group as an employer for the Classes of 2023 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 The Sterling Group sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: no approved new-employment petition was found under this name in USCIS data for fiscal years 2024 to 2026. Roughly one such employer in ten files under a different legal name, so treat this as "none found" rather than "never". The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to The Sterling 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.