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
101	University of Louisville	526	$84k
102	Mississippi State University	524	$73k
103	Tufts University	518	$83k
104	University of Colorado Denver	514	$67k
105	Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	511	$70k
106	Research Foundation of Cuny	506	$65k
107	University of Houston System	504	$68k
108	Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University	494	$60k
109	The Johns Hopkins University	486	$63k
110	Texas Tech University	469	$70k
111	Saint Louis University	464	$70k
112	Thomas Jefferson University	460	$70k
113	The Rockefeller University	459	$68k
114	The University of Alabama	453	$72k
115	The University of Texas at Dallas	451	$80k
116	New York University School of Medicine	450	$60k
117	Georgetown University	449	$73k
118	Regents of the University of California at Riverside	446	$74k
119	The Ohio University	445	$61k
120	Auburn University	440	$78k
121	Louisiana State University and a M College	437	$72k
122	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	431	$61k
123	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	425	$69k
124	University of New Mexico	424	$65k
125	University of Nevada Reno	420	$74k
126	Colorado State University	417	$72k
127	University of Massachusetts Amherst	415	$78k
128	University of Arkansas	413	$54k
129	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center	412	$78k
130	Florida International University	411	$76k
131	University of Central Florida	404	$83k
132	Bor Usga Obo Augusta University	394	$65k
133	Boston College	394	$95k
134	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	388	$70k
135	Syracuse University	382	$65k
136	The University of Kansas	381	$69k
137	The University of Kansas Medical Center	381	$80k
138	Washington State University	379	$72k
139	State University of New York at Binghamton	377	$77k
140	Utah State University	359	$69k
141	Savannah College of Art and Design	357	$57k
142	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	354	$72k
143	University of Massachusetts Medical School	353	$59k
144	Old Dominion University	351	$79k
145	Miami University	349	$55k
146	Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Indianapolis	346	$61k
147	Georgia State University	345	$69k
148	Coursera	343	$150k
149	State University of New York at Stony Brook	343	$85k
150	Wake Forest University Health Sciences	341	$78k
151	California Institute of Technology	340	$75k
152	Stanford University Slac National Accelerator Laboratory	339	$94k
153	University of Texas Medical Branch	331	$72k
154	Kent State University	330	$63k
155	East Carolina University	325	$128k
156	University of North Dakota	323	$69k
157	University of California Santa Cruz	322	$91k
158	Kansas State University	319	$54k
159	Medical University of South Carolina and Affiliates	317	$193k
160	The University of Texas at Arlington	313	$70k
161	University of Hawaii	313	$84k
162	The University of Georgia	307	$55k
163	The University of Toledo	303	$65k
164	University of South Carolina	301	$58k
165	New Mexico State University	299	$65k
166	State University of New York Upstate Medical University	295	$56k
167	Wichita State University	292	$65k
168	Texas State University	287	$70k
169	Lsu Health Sciences Center	284	$166k
170	University of Delaware	282	$88k
171	Michigan Technological University	278	$77k
172	University of Texas at San Antonio	277	$70k
173	New Jersey Institute of Technology	276	$95k
174	Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	274	$57k
175	The George Washington University	274	$83k
176	University of Oregon	274	$72k
177	University of Houston	272	$79k
178	Loma Linda - Inland Empire Consortium for Healthcare Education	267	$62k
179	Drexel University	263	$75k
180	US Army Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center	259	$65k
181	Southern Methodist University	257	$80k
182	University of Massachusetts Boston	257	$73k
183	Rochester Institute of Technology	256	$55k
184	North Dakota State University	255	$65k
185	The University of Texas at el Paso	254	$66k
186	University of Rhode Island	249	$75k
187	Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education	249	$56k
188	Kennesaw State University	246	$77k
189	University of Connecticut Health Center	244	$75k
190	Marquette University	243	$79k
191	University of Maryland Baltimore County	242	$86k
192	University of Wisconsin-madison	240	$66k
193	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center el Paso	238	$200k
194	George Mason University	236	$90k
195	Minnesota State Colleges and Universities	236	$73k
196	Marshall University	234	$115k
197	University of Idaho	234	$67k
198	University of Nevada Las Vegas	233	$83k
199	The Univ of Ala at Birmingham Uab	231	$53k
200	Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals	229	$64k

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