H-1B sponsors by university

No H-1B dataset can be grouped by university: the Labor Condition Application an employer files for an H-1B has no field for where the worker studied. The PERM green-card application does record it, for FY2020–2024 only, across 212,731 filings naming 538 U.S. schools. That is a strong indicator rather than a gap: 83.1% of those workers already held an H-1B at that same employer when the green card was filed.

An employer hiring on an H-1B files a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor. That form captures the job title, the worksite, the wage and the employer, and DOL publishes all of it. It does not ask where the worker went to university, so that column simply does not exist in any year of the H-1B disclosure data (FY2017 onward). No amount of processing recovers a field that was never collected.

The PERM application, which an employer files to sponsor a green card, is a different form with a different purpose: it must show the job's minimum requirements were met, so it names the worker's institution. That is why school-level analysis is possible for green cards and impossible for H-1B.

⚠ Even the PERM school field is narrower than the rest of our data. It is populated for FY2020–2024 only. Earlier and later years carry no school value at all, so a school page covers a shorter window than an employer page does.

PERM records the visa the worker already held when the green card was filed. Across every filing naming a U.S. university, that is:

• 83.1% already on an H-1B (188,606 of 226,874 filings)
• 11.1% on an F-1, i.e. still a student or on OPT (25,378)
• the rest on L-1, TN, O-1, H-4 or outside the U.S.

That is the bridge. The H-1B form never names the school, but the green-card form names both, and in five cases out of six the same employer already had that graduate on an H-1B. So a school page is a strong indicator of which employers hold H-1Bs for a university's graduates, even though no H-1B dataset can be grouped that way.

⚠ Read it as an indicator, not a count. What is recorded is that the worker held an H-1B at that employer when the green card was filed. That the same employer also filed that H-1B is a reasonable inference, not a field in the data, and neither says anything about a future applicant.

You can say: this employer filed a green-card application for someone who held a degree from this university, and here is the wage stated on that filing. Both are facts in the disclosure data.

You cannot conclude: anything about the future, or about the school's relationship with the employer. A filing is one past application about one worker. It is not a recruiting arrangement, it carries no commitment about later applicants, and a count of filings is not a count of people who got a visa.

The employers on these pages are overwhelmingly H-1B sponsors too, and each links to its own profile with its H-1B filing history. That is the honest way to connect the two: the school data tells you who sponsored a green card for a graduate, and the employer page tells you what that company's H-1B filings look like.