Harvard UniversityEmployers That Filed Green-Card Applications for Its Graduates
Which employers filed the most green-card applications for Harvard University graduates?
Google, BCG, McKinsey, Microsoft, and Meta. U.S. Department of Labor PERM records list 819 green-card applications filed by employers between FY2020 and FY2024 for workers who hold a degree from Harvard University, at a median wage of $149k on those filings. Each is an application, not a person and not a hire; 7.9% were denied or withdrawn.
Employers filed these applications for people who studied here; the school is not a party to them. H-1B filings do not record the worker's school, so this is green-card (PERM) data. Why
Green-card (PERM) filings
819
Filed by employers, FY2020 to FY2024
Median wage on the filing
$149k
Employer's offered wage, as stated on Form ETA-9089. Annualized.
Held a Master's
65%
The worker's degree level, as recorded on the filing. Doctorate 19.8%, Bachelor's 12.1%.
Employers that filed for these graduates
Ranked by PERM filings. Subsidiaries are rolled up to the parent company.
| Employer (parent company) | Top field of study | PERM filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration | 68 | $110k | |
| BCG | Business Administration | 53 | $211k |
| McKinsey | Business Administration | 30 | $184k |
| Microsoft | Computer Science | 30 | $132k |
| Meta | Business Administration | 29 | $156k |
| Amazon | Business Administration | 25 | $102k |
| Citadel | Computational Science and Engineering | 16 | $175k |
| Analysis Group Inc. | Epidemiology | 12 | $165k |
| Bain & Company | Business Administration | 11 | $195k |
| Columbia University | Accounting | 7 | $110k |
| Sasaki Associates | Landscape Architecture | 7 | $87k |
| Waymo LLC | Computational Science and Engineering | 7 | $155k |
| Airbnb | Computational Science and Engineering | 6 | $204k |
| Bloomberg | Computational Science and Engineering | 6 | $148k |
| JPMorgan Chase | Business Administration | 6 | $162k |
| IBM | Business Administration | 5 | $150k |
| Business Administration | 5 | $154k | |
| The University of Chicago | Economics | 5 | $190k |
| Two Sigma | Computer Science | 5 | $165k |
| Uber | Design Studies Technology | 5 | $135k |
| ByteDance | Statistics | 4 | $168k |
| Ernst & Young | Business Administration | 4 | $185k |
| Lyft | Applied Math and Economics | 4 | $157k |
| Nvidia | Computational Science and Engineering | 4 | $139k |
| Robinhood | Statistics | 4 | $175k |
Which visa they held at the time
The class of admission recorded on each application
| Visa held | Filings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| H-1B | 599 | 73.1% |
| F-1 | 130 | 15.9% |
| L-1 | 21 | 2.6% |
| TN | 15 | 1.8% |
| J-1 | 12 | 1.5% |
| O-1 | 9 | 1.1% |
| E-3 | 7 | 0.9% |
| NOT IN USA | 6 | 0.7% |
| E-2 | 3 | 0.4% |
| B-2 | 2 | 0.2% |
What they studied
Every field these filings list, by volume
Business Administration 217Computational Science and Engineering 50Statistics 43Computer Science 42Economics 31Data Science 22Biostatistics 21Architecture 20Landscape Architecture 18Law 18
Filings and pay by year
Harvard University graduates, by fiscal year
Show the numbers behind this chart
| Fiscal year | PERM filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 152 | $171k |
| FY2023 | 164 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 154 | $149k |
| FY2021 | 187 | $142k |
| FY2020 | 162 | $140k |
Other schools
University of Southern California 7,076Carnegie Mellon University 5,747The University of Texas at Dallas 4,893Northeastern University 4,229Arizona State University 3,956San Jose State University 3,737New York University 3,587Columbia University 3,291University of Central Missouri 3,117North Carolina State University 3,090Georgia Institute of Technology 3,076The University of Texas at Arlington 2,817