Master list

H-1B Cap-exempt sponsors

Colleges and universities (NAICS 6112/6113), whose H-1B petitions are typically exempt from the 85,000 annual cap.

2,967 employers · ranked by certified filings.

Note: Best-effort: derived from NAICS industry codes, not an official cap-exempt designation. Confirm with the employer before relying on it.

#	Employer	Filings	Median base
1	Mayo Clinic	4,430	$71k
2	University of Michigan	3,538	$63k
3	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	2,419	$70k
4	University of Pittsburgh	2,359	$62k
5	University of California San Francisco	2,341	$75k
6	The Leland Stanford JR University	2,211	$80k
7	Columbia University	2,156	$75k
8	University of Florida	2,111	$90k
9	The University of Iowa	2,006	$73k
10	University of Minnesota	1,956	$65k
11	The University of Chicago	1,773	$69k
12	Purdue University	1,772	$75k
13	The University of Southern California	1,736	$71k
14	Emory University	1,722	$68k
15	University of California Los Angeles	1,666	$83k
16	Yale University	1,658	$72k
17	The Ohio State University	1,638	$70k
18	Northwestern University	1,621	$65k
19	The Trustees of Princeton University	1,606	$66k
20	Washington University	1,576	$66k
21	UT Southwestern Medical Center	1,551	$64k
22	Rutgers the State University of New Jersey	1,549	$77k
23	University of Utah	1,534	$75k
24	Johns Hopkins University	1,521	$70k
25	Cornell University	1,482	$72k
26	The Pennsylvania State University	1,482	$74k
27	Texas a M University	1,460	$68k
28	University of Washington	1,445	$77k
29	Harvard University	1,438	$73k
30	University of California Berkeley	1,342	$81k
31	The University of Texas at Austin	1,270	$70k
32	The Curators of the University of Missouri	1,249	$64k
33	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	1,245	$74k
34	New York University	1,223	$80k
35	University of California Davis	1,180	$72k
36	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	1,169	$70k
37	University of Illinois at Chicago	1,166	$71k
38	University of Miami	1,164	$82k
39	Baylor College of Medicine	1,148	$61k
40	North Carolina State University	1,128	$67k
41	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1,107	$71k
42	Arizona State University	1,105	$70k
43	Carnegie Mellon University	1,104	$77k
44	University of Illinois	1,097	$74k
45	University of California San Diego	1,096	$73k
46	Duke University	1,086	$67k
47	Weill Cornell Medical College	1,085	$73k
48	Case Western Reserve University	1,067	$55k
49	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	1,065	$64k
50	Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University	1,036	$75k
51	University of Colorado	1,014	$73k
52	University of Rochester	1,000	$83k
53	The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center	988	$68k
54	University of Maryland College Park	985	$80k
55	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford JR University	978	$70k
56	Oregon Health Science University	931	$76k
57	Michigan State University	920	$75k
58	The University of Arizona	920	$70k
59	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	912	$61k
60	University of Kentucky	890	$72k
61	The University of Virginia	875	$75k
62	University of Connecticut	842	$64k
63	Trustees of Boston University	824	$85k
64	University of Wisconsin-system	821	$70k
65	Washington University in ST Louis	795	$61k
66	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	792	$75k
67	Vanderbilt University	765	$65k
68	University of Oklahoma	755	$65k
69	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	750	$75k
70	W M Rice University	750	$65k
71	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	742	$81k
72	Northeastern University	739	$95k
73	Medical College of Wisconsin	725	$109k
74	The University of Tennessee	717	$77k
75	Georgia Institute of Technology	716	$76k
76	University of California at Santa Barbara	716	$73k
77	Oregon State University	700	$67k
78	Temple University--A Commonwealth University	695	$63k
79	State University of New York at Buffalo	686	$77k
80	University of Nebraska Medical Center	676	$60k
81	The University of Tennessee Health Science Center	673	$54k
82	University of California Irvine	667	$81k
83	University of South Florida	667	$74k
84	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	660	$60k
85	Virginia Commonwealth University	659	$57k
86	University of Virginia	646	$66k
87	West Virginia University	626	$123k
88	Indiana University	623	$71k
89	University of Cincinnati	616	$75k
90	Clemson University	611	$70k
91	Oklahoma State University	595	$64k
92	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	594	$84k
93	Wayne State University	589	$67k
94	University of Mississippi Medical Center	587	$200k
95	Duke University and Medical Center	585	$56k
96	The Florida State University	581	$80k
97	Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	544	$70k
98	University of Notre Dame DU Lac	541	$72k
99	University of Maryland Baltimore	530	$70k
100	Brown University	528	$75k

Source: U.S. DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification — certified LCA disclosures (FY2020–present). Salary is base pay only. ← All master lists