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TPG Capital: which MBA programs it recruits from
TPG Capital (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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 6 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 14 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: TPG.
About TPG Capital
TPG is an alternative asset manager founded in 1992 with a West Coast base, managing $327 billion at June 30, 2026 across six platforms: Capital, Growth, Impact, Credit, Real Estate and Market Solutions, with more than 1,900 employees across 30 offices. TPG publishes no MBA or campus page; open roles, including investment associate positions, are posted on the job board linked from its careers page.
Official links: Website · Careers page
Read from the company's own pages in October 2026. Programs and deadlines change every cycle, so check the careers page before you plan around it.
Schools whose employer lists name TPG Capital
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2024 | 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, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, 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) · StepStone Group (6) · Actis (5)
Questions about TPG Capital
Which MBA programs does TPG Capital recruit from?
TPG Capital 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: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton and Chicago Booth.
Does TPG Capital hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists TPG Capital as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 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 TPG Capital sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 6 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 14 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 TPG Capital 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.