MBA Recruiters by School · Financial Services
Vanguard: which MBA programs it recruits from
Vanguard (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 13 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 10 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 46 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Vanguard
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Northwestern Kellogg | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Duke Fuqua | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Michigan Ross | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Indiana Kelley | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Harvard HBS, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Dartmouth Tuck, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, 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 financial services employers with wide reach
Bank of America (25) · J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20)
Questions about Vanguard
Which MBA programs does Vanguard recruit from?
Vanguard is named on the published employer lists of 13 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia CBS, Yale SOM, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden and Carnegie Mellon Tepper and 3 more.
Does Vanguard hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists Vanguard 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 Vanguard sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 10 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 46 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 Vanguard 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.