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University of Michigan

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

Ann Arbor, MI Educational Services Files from MI On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — University of Michigan sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 589 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 576 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
589 576 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$71,732 from 572 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
99.7% of 586 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
40
E-Verify
On the list as of December 31, 2018
H-1B dependent
No

Fiscal years (FY) run October to September. Approval rates are from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Sponsorship score

10/10

Computed September 30, 2026 from its FY2020–FY2025 record.

  • Recent approvals 3/3

    245 new H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in FY2022

  • Entry-level hiring 3/3

    86% of 1,527 H-1B filings with a wage level were entry level (I or II), FY2023–FY2025

  • Files every year 2/2

    Certified H-1B filings in 3 of the 3 years FY2023–FY2025

  • Approval rate 2/2

    99.7% of 586 new petitions approved, FY2020–FY2022

H-1B filings (Department of Labor)

Before filing an H-1B petition, an employer must get a Labor Condition Application (LCA) certified by the Department of Labor. These are this company's LCAs, by fiscal year.

H-1B filings with the Department of Labor, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertified H-1BDeniedWithdrawnEntry level
FY202032831007789% of 266
FY2021418391114691% of 353
FY2022477457011085% of 379
FY2023744720035088% of 617
FY2024555534010984% of 431
FY2025606589013385% of 479
FY2026 so far594576021287% of 460
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2023, 720. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

Entry level is the share of certified H-1B filings with a stated wage level that were level I or II.

“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

H-1B approvals (USCIS)

After DOL certifies an LCA, the employer files the H-1B petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which approves or denies it. New petitions and extensions or transfers are counted separately.

H-1B petitions decided by USCIS, by fiscal year
New petitionsExtensions and transfers
Fiscal yearApprovedDeniedApproval rateApprovedDenied
FY2009190199.5%2120
FY20101620100.0%1643
FY20111700100.0%2002
FY20121550100.0%1470
FY201300No decisions20
FY20142210100.0%1610
FY2015203299.0%1080
FY2016205199.5%1710
FY2017210199.5%2495
FY2018180199.4%1492
FY20191970100.0%20111
FY20201580100.0%2573
FY2021181199.5%1484
FY2022245199.6%2696
FY2023 (partial)1140100.0%1196
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2009–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2022, 245. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

These numbers come from USCIS, which decides H-1B petitions. They count different things from Department of Labor filings, so we never add the two together.

FY2023 is incomplete: USCIS's last data release covers only part of that year (38,315 new approvals nationwide, against 138,381 in FY2022).

USCIS hasn't published employer-level approval data after FY2023.

Salaries

Offered salary is the yearly pay an employer states on a certified, full-time H-1B filing — the bottom of the range when it gives one. Hourly, weekly and monthly pay is converted to a yearly figure; amounts under $15,000 or over $1,000,000 a year are left out. The typical range is the middle half: a quarter of filings offered less, and a quarter more.

Offered salaries on certified H-1B filings, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearMedianTypical rangeFilings
FY2020$60,000$53,000 – $76,535298
FY2021$60,600$53,760 – $76,000376
FY2022$62,000$54,840 – $80,000442
FY2023$62,802$56,484 – $84,655702
FY2024$70,000$60,411 – $85,717515
FY2025$71,732$62,232 – $86,572572
FY2026 so far$72,100$63,752 – $90,000560

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 1,430 72%
  • Level II (entry) 286 14%
  • Level III 178 9%
  • Level IV 93 5%

Shares of the 1,987 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 432 filings didn't state one.

Jobs and locations

Certified H-1B filings since FY2023, with the median offered salary for each.

Top job titles

Top job titles on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
Job titleFilingsMedian salaryTypical wage level
Postdoctoral Research Fellow762$61,008I (entry)
Assistant Professor248$117,000I (entry)
Research Investigator195$70,000I (entry)
Assistant Research Scientist82$86,000III
Clinical Assistant Professor72$201,000II (entry)
Research Lab Specialist Associate72$48,339I (entry)
Research Lab Specialist Intermediate69$60,000I (entry)
Research Lab Specialist Senior51$71,000II (entry)
LEO Lecturer I39$54,060Not stated
Clinical Instructor29$82,784II (entry)

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
Ann Arbor, MI2,256$68,000
Dearborn, MI67$95,655
Flint, MI34$65,025
Pellston, MI5$87,750
Brooklyn, NY2$97,390
Chesterfield, MO2Not available
Iowa City, IA2$56,083
Mountain View, CA2$59,927
Saint Paul, MN2$75,000
San Tan Valley, AZ2$103,868

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 19-1042359$62,000
Molecular and Cellular Biologists 19-1029285$62,232
Biochemists and Biophysicists 19-1021169$62,332
Data Scientists 15-205192$77,000
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 25-107189$130,000
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers 17-203181$61,008

What the filings were for

What its certified H-1B filings since FY2023 were for, as marked on each LCA. One filing can cover several workers, so these count worker positions.

Worker positions on certified H-1B filings since FY2023, by purpose
Filing typeWorker positionsShare
New employment New H-1B workers joining the company1,11946%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers31213%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer1888%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job33714%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere8<1%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed45519%

It also has 16 certified E-3 filings (a visa for Australian citizens) and 5 certified H-1B1 filings (for citizens of Chile and Singapore) since FY2023. They use the same form and aren't counted above.

Green card sponsorship (PERM)

Most employer-sponsored green cards start with a PERM labor certification, filed with the Department of Labor. These are this company's, by fiscal year.

Green card filings (PERM), by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertifiedDeniedWithdrawn
FY2020484701
FY2021474403
FY2022313001
FY2023222101
FY2024353005
FY2025403802
FY2026 so far545301

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

Across all its green card filings since FY2020, whatever the outcome. DOL's newer PERM form doesn't include citizenship or education, so those two lists cover filings made on the older one.

Top green card job titles

Top job titles on green card filings
Job titleFilings
Assistant Professor111
Clinical Assistant Professor16
Lecturer8
Research Investigator8
Research Lab Specialist5
Full-Stack Software Engineer4
Assistant Research Scientist3
Digital Product Designer3

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
India37
China34
Canada18
Japan5
Mexico5
South Korea5
United Kingdom4
Australia3

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Doctorate95
Master's36
Bachelor's26
Other10
No minimum1

E-Verify

On the E-Verify list

University of Michigan appears on USCIS's list of E-Verify employers dated December 31, 2018, in a state it files from.

The company's listings on USCIS's 2018 E-Verify list
Name as listedLocationWorkforce sizeFederal contractor
The University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI 4810910,000 and overYes
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI 4810910,000 and overNo

Why it matters: employers must be enrolled in E-Verify to employ F-1 students on the STEM OPT extension (8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C)).

This list is from December 31, 2018, and it's the only one USCIS has published. It shows who was enrolled on that date: a company that enrolled later isn't on it, so not being on the list tells you nothing.

How we match companies to the list

The employer's name key appears in the USCIS E-Verify participating-employers list with a state the employer files in. That list is one snapshot, enrolled as of 2018-12-31, so false means only "not on the 2018 list" - not that the employer does not use E-Verify today, and not that it did not enrol the following week. The list carries no FEIN and no case number, so the match is by normalised name and state alone.

Other things to know

H-1B dependent
No

On most of its certified filings in FY2023–FY2025 that answered the question, the company said it is not H-1B dependent. A dependent employer has a large share of H-1B workers on staff and makes extra promises about recruiting and not displacing U.S. workers.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to H1B_DEPENDENT on at least half of the certified LCAs where it answered the question, in FY2023-FY2025. false means it answered and Yes was under half; NULL means no certified case answered the question (E-3 and H-1B1 filings answer N/A). The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: it would badge 979 employers that said Yes once, one of them on 1 filing of 2,760; the 473 that answered only once or twice still are. A dependent employer is not a worse employer: the answer is a statutory test on the share of H-1B workers on staff, not a finding.

Willful violator
No

The company's answers on its filings in FY2020–FY2025 don't show a repeated yes. Employers state on each filing whether DOL has found them to be a willful violator in the five years before; this is the company's own answer, not a DOL record.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to WILLFUL_VIOLATOR on at least two LCAs in FY2020-FY2025, certified or not, in at least two fiscal years, and in at least one of those years Yes was half or more of what it answered. The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: 505 employers answer Yes exactly once and never twice, and the two employers with the most Yes answers say it on one filing in two thousand. false means the employer answered and did not meet that bar; NULL means it never answered. THIS IS THE FILER'S OWN ATTESTATION ON THE LCA, NOT A DOL FINDING. The authoritative source is the DOL published debarment list, which this project does not yet mirror - it is a follow-up catalog entry - so nothing here has been checked against it.

Cap-exempt
Possibly

Its name or industry code looks like a college or university's. Universities, their affiliated nonprofits and nonprofit research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap and lottery. This is an indicator, not a determination: only USCIS decides, petition by petition.

How we work this out

INFERRED, not a determination. true when an FY2023+ LCA carries a NAICS code beginning 6112 or 6113 (junior colleges, colleges and universities) or a raw spelling of the employer's name contains the word UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE. Never false: the column is NULL when neither signal is present, because the absence of a signal is not evidence that an employer is cap-subject. Non-profit research organisations and affiliated hospitals are cap-exempt and both tests miss them. Only USCIS decides cap exemption, petition by petition.

Company details

Name on filings
University of Michigan
Other names on filings
International Center
Address on filings
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Industry
Educational Services (NAICS 611310)
Employees
60,000, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
38-6006309
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 30, 2026

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Sources

  • H-1B and green card filings: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, FY2020 through June 30, 2026.
  • H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, complete through FY2022; FY2023 is partial.
  • E-Verify: USCIS's list of E-Verify employers as of December 31, 2018.
  • Sponsorship score: computed September 30, 2026 with version 1 of the rules on How Visa Grep works.
  • USCIS approvals are matched to this company by exact name (1 USCIS name). The last four digits of the Employer ID agree.
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