MBA Recruiters by School · Telecommunications
Verizon: which MBA programs it recruits from
Verizon (Telecommunications) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 11 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: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 17 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 29 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications.
Schools whose employer lists name Verizon
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| MIT Sloan | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 2023, 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Georgetown McDonough | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Emory Goizueta | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, 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 telecommunications employers with wide reach
AT&T (9) · Comcast NBCUniversal (9) · T-Mobile (6)
Questions about Verizon
Which MBA programs does Verizon recruit from?
Verizon is named on the published employer lists of 11 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, NYU Stern, UVA Darden, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, Georgetown McDonough, Rice Jones and Emory Goizueta.
Does Verizon hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Verizon as an employer for the Class of 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Verizon sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 17 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 29 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 Verizon 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.