MBA Recruiters by School · Financial Services
William Blair: which MBA programs it recruits from
William Blair (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 4 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 4 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 11 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools also print it as: William Blair & Company.
Schools whose employer lists name William Blair
| 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 | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UNC Kenan-Flagler | 2023, 2024, 2025 | 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, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, 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 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 William Blair
Which MBA programs does William Blair recruit from?
William Blair is named on the published employer lists of 4 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, UVA Darden and UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Does William Blair hire MBAs from Pennsylvania Wharton?
Pennsylvania Wharton lists William Blair 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 William Blair sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 4 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 11 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 William Blair 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.