Does an H-1B filing mean a visa was granted?

No. A Labor Condition Application is the wage-and-worksite filing an employer makes before petitioning. Many certified LCAs never become petitions, and an LCA is not a visa.

Is a certified filing the same as USCIS approval?

No. Certification is a Department of Labor outcome. The I-129 petition is decided separately by USCIS and is not in this dataset.

Does a withdrawn filing count against a sponsor?

No. A withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped, so it is not a compliance signal and is not counted against a sponsor in the sponsor-health score.

Is the wage shown what an employee takes home?

No. Offered and prevailing wages are the figures on the filing, before tax, bonus or equity, and they describe the role rather than an individual paycheck.

Is the most recent fiscal year complete?

Not necessarily. The Department of Labor releases disclosure data quarterly, so counts for the latest fiscal years can still rise in a later release.

Why are some occupations or states missing?

Combinations backed by fewer than 25 filings, or fewer than 3 distinct employers, are not published at all. Small cells are omitted entirely rather than shown with unreliable numbers.

Sponsor FinderSOC 25-1042Updated September 2026

H-1B Sponsors for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

360 employers filed 62,462 H-1B Labor Condition Applications for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary across the US between FY2010 and FY2026. The 50 largest are ranked below, with DOL certification outcomes and a sponsor-health signal.

Employers: 360top 50 listed
Filings: 62,46262% of all 100,569 for this role
Certified: 73.0%across those listed
Median wage: $92,819across the sponsors listed

How this total is counted: filings from employers with at least 25 for this occupation, a resolved employer and a recorded worksite state. That is 62,462 of the 100,569 total shown on the Biological Science Teachers occupation page (62%); the remainder is the long tail of employers below the publishing threshold.

How to read this

Does an H-1B filing mean a visa was granted?: No. A Labor Condition Application is the wage-and-worksite filing an employer makes before petitioning. Many certified LCAs never become petitions, and an LCA is not a visa. What an LCA is.
Is a certified filing the same as USCIS approval?: No. Certification is a Department of Labor outcome. The I-129 petition is decided separately by USCIS and is not in this dataset. How certification rate works.
Does a withdrawn filing count against a sponsor?: No. A withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped, so it is not a compliance signal and is not counted against a sponsor in the sponsor-health score. How sponsor health is calculated.
Is the wage shown what an employee takes home?: No. Offered and prevailing wages are the figures on the filing, before tax, bonus or equity, and they describe the role rather than an individual paycheck. How the prevailing wage works.
Is the most recent fiscal year complete?: Not necessarily. The Department of Labor releases disclosure data quarterly, so counts for the latest fiscal years can still rise in a later release.
Why are some occupations or states missing?: Combinations backed by fewer than 25 filings, or fewer than 3 distinct employers, are not published at all. Small cells are omitted entirely rather than shown with unreliable numbers.

Top 50 sponsors, ranked

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Employers sponsoring H-1B for Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary in the US, sorted by filings, descending. Column headers are sortable.
#					Wage levels
1	The Pennsylvania State University	970	80.8%	$85,032	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 11%, Level III: 2%
2	University of Michigan	871	63.8%	$96,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 90%, Level II: 6%, Level III: 2%, Level IV: 1%
3	Purdue University	739	64.0%	$92,819	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 75%, Level II: 22%, Level III: 0%, Level IV: 2%
4	Michigan State University	648	55.4%	$86,181	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 6%
5	University of Pittsburgh	643	82.1%	$87,742	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 93%, Level II: 5%, Level III: 2%
6	Texas A&M University	637	69.5%	$95,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 96%, Level II: 3%, Level III: 1%
7	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA	633	79.6%	$87,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 8%, Level IV: 0%
8	State University of New York at Stony Brook	625	79.5%	$95,000	—
9	Arizona State University	623	67.1%	$87,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 97%, Level II: 2%, Level III: 1%
10	West Virginia University	599	58.4%	$102,063	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 74%, Level II: 26%
11	Northwestern University	595	69.6%	$89,610	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 70%, Level II: 16%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 0%
12	Johns Hopkins University	579	70.3%	$113,826	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 51%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 1%
13	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	574	57.3%	$124,804	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 17%, Level II: 42%, Level III: 33%, Level IV: 8%
14	The University of Chicago	563	84.5%	$79,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 35%, Level II: 46%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 6%
15	THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	551	71.3%	$83,500	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 67%, Level II: 23%, Level III: 6%, Level IV: 4%
16	University of Houston	542	74.0%	$83,698	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 32%, Level III: 6%
17	Illinois State University	534	67.2%	$90,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
18	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	532	94.7%	$205,200	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 4%, Level II: 24%, Level III: 51%, Level IV: 21%
19	University of Washington	514	80.2%	$105,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 71%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 2%
20	The Ohio State University	513	66.5%	$90,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 2%, Level IV: 1%
21	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	510	84.5%	$115,000	—
22	Yale University	504	68.5%	$144,800	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 24%, Level II: 65%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 2%
23	Columbia University	501	79.2%	$122,673	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 7%, Level II: 75%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 5%
24	University of Maryland Baltimore	489	73.0%	$104,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 17%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 3%
25	University of Wisconsin System	489	57.5%	$101,502	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 95%, Level II: 3%, Level III: 1%
26	University of Colorado	488	69.3%	$93,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 7%, Level II: 42%, Level III: 26%, Level IV: 26%
27	Emory University	486	68.3%	$138,624	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 23%, Level II: 55%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 4%
28	Washington University	478	82.0%	$124,781	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 11%, Level II: 70%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 1%
29	University of Utah	477	80.9%	$98,980	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 4%
30	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	470	81.7%	$75,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 81%, Level II: 9%, Level III: 10%
31	The University of Texas at Austin	457	63.0%	$102,855	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 4%, Level III: 8%
32	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	453	64.9%	$107,500	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 74%, Level II: 21%, Level III: 5%
33	Georgia State University	447	61.1%	$80,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 79%, Level II: 19%, Level III: 2%
34	University of Hawaii	444	71.4%	$79,980	—
35	Baylor College of Medicine	438	60.0%	$150,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 28%, Level II: 50%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 11%
36	UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEElast filed FY2019	437	71.4%	$85,000	—
37	UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY	435	90.6%	$113,829	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 61%, Level II: 1%, Level III: 3%, Level IV: 35%
38	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	434	70.3%	$85,273	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 33%, Level II: 52%, Level III: 12%, Level IV: 3%
39	New York University	428	91.1%	$107,265	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 73%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 5%, Level IV: 1%
40	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	426	68.1%	$165,984	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 23%, Level II: 72%, Level III: 3%, Level IV: 1%
41	The Curators of the University of Missouri	416	81.7%	$73,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 82%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 3%
42	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAlast filed FY2019	416	94.5%	$82,500	—
43	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	413	76.3%	$88,840	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 2%
44	Washington State University	411	58.4%	$81,142	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 84%, Level II: 11%, Level III: 5%
45	University of Oklahoma	410	95.6%	$85,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 63%, Level II: 17%, Level III: 19%, Level IV: 1%
46	University of Connecticut	409	72.9%	$80,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level III: 100%
47	The Florida State University	392	75.0%	$90,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 97%, Level II: 3%
48	Texas State University	386	66.1%	$71,500	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
49	Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.	382	94.5%	$209,998	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 3%, Level II: 18%, Level III: 75%, Level IV: 4%
50	Harvard University	380	61.8%	$120,800	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 3%

#1The Pennsylvania State University
Filings
970
Certified
80.8%
Median wage
$85,032
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 11%, Level III: 2%
#2University of Michigan
Filings
871
Certified
63.8%
Median wage
$96,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 90%, Level II: 6%, Level III: 2%, Level IV: 1%
#3Purdue University
Filings
739
Certified
64.0%
Median wage
$92,819
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 75%, Level II: 22%, Level III: 0%, Level IV: 2%
#4Michigan State University
Filings
648
Certified
55.4%
Median wage
$86,181
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 6%
#5University of Pittsburgh
Filings
643
Certified
82.1%
Median wage
$87,742
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 93%, Level II: 5%, Level III: 2%
#6Texas A&M University
Filings
637
Certified
69.5%
Median wage
$95,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 96%, Level II: 3%, Level III: 1%
#7UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Filings
633
Certified
79.6%
Median wage
$87,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 8%, Level IV: 0%
#8State University of New York at Stony Brook
Filings
625
Certified
79.5%
Median wage
$95,000
—
#9Arizona State University
Filings
623
Certified
67.1%
Median wage
$87,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 97%, Level II: 2%, Level III: 1%
#10West Virginia University
Filings
599
Certified
58.4%
Median wage
$102,063
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 74%, Level II: 26%
#11Northwestern University
Filings
595
Certified
69.6%
Median wage
$89,610
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 70%, Level II: 16%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 0%
#12Johns Hopkins University
Filings
579
Certified
70.3%
Median wage
$113,826
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 51%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 1%
#13The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Filings
574
Certified
57.3%
Median wage
$124,804
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 17%, Level II: 42%, Level III: 33%, Level IV: 8%
#14The University of Chicago
Filings
563
Certified
84.5%
Median wage
$79,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 35%, Level II: 46%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 6%
#15THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
Filings
551
Certified
71.3%
Median wage
$83,500
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 67%, Level II: 23%, Level III: 6%, Level IV: 4%
#16University of Houston
Filings
542
Certified
74.0%
Median wage
$83,698
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 32%, Level III: 6%
#17Illinois State University
Filings
534
Certified
67.2%
Median wage
$90,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
#18University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Filings
532
Certified
94.7%
Median wage
$205,200
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 4%, Level II: 24%, Level III: 51%, Level IV: 21%
#19University of Washington
Filings
514
Certified
80.2%
Median wage
$105,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 71%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 2%
#20The Ohio State University
Filings
513
Certified
66.5%
Median wage
$90,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 2%, Level IV: 1%
#21Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Filings
510
Certified
84.5%
Median wage
$115,000
—
#22Yale University
Filings
504
Certified
68.5%
Median wage
$144,800
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 24%, Level II: 65%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 2%
#23Columbia University
Filings
501
Certified
79.2%
Median wage
$122,673
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 7%, Level II: 75%, Level III: 14%, Level IV: 5%
#24University of Maryland Baltimore
Filings
489
Certified
73.0%
Median wage
$104,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 17%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 3%
#25University of Wisconsin System
Filings
489
Certified
57.5%
Median wage
$101,502
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 95%, Level II: 3%, Level III: 1%
#26University of Colorado
Filings
488
Certified
69.3%
Median wage
$93,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 7%, Level II: 42%, Level III: 26%, Level IV: 26%
#27Emory University
Filings
486
Certified
68.3%
Median wage
$138,624
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 23%, Level II: 55%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 4%
#28Washington University
Filings
478
Certified
82.0%
Median wage
$124,781
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 11%, Level II: 70%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 1%
#29University of Utah
Filings
477
Certified
80.9%
Median wage
$98,980
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 4%
#30Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Filings
470
Certified
81.7%
Median wage
$75,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 81%, Level II: 9%, Level III: 10%
#31The University of Texas at Austin
Filings
457
Certified
63.0%
Median wage
$102,855
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 4%, Level III: 8%
#32TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Filings
453
Certified
64.9%
Median wage
$107,500
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 74%, Level II: 21%, Level III: 5%
#33Georgia State University
Filings
447
Certified
61.1%
Median wage
$80,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 79%, Level II: 19%, Level III: 2%
#34University of Hawaii
Filings
444
Certified
71.4%
Median wage
$79,980
—
#35Baylor College of Medicine
Filings
438
Certified
60.0%
Median wage
$150,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 28%, Level II: 50%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 11%
#36UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEElast filed FY2019
Filings
437
Certified
71.4%
Median wage
$85,000
—
#37UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Filings
435
Certified
90.6%
Median wage
$113,829
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 61%, Level II: 1%, Level III: 3%, Level IV: 35%
#38UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Filings
434
Certified
70.3%
Median wage
$85,273
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 33%, Level II: 52%, Level III: 12%, Level IV: 3%
#39New York University
Filings
428
Certified
91.1%
Median wage
$107,265
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 73%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 5%, Level IV: 1%
#40The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Filings
426
Certified
68.1%
Median wage
$165,984
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 23%, Level II: 72%, Level III: 3%, Level IV: 1%
#41The Curators of the University of Missouri
Filings
416
Certified
81.7%
Median wage
$73,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 82%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 3%
#42UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAlast filed FY2019
Filings
416
Certified
94.5%
Median wage
$82,500
—
#43Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Filings
413
Certified
76.3%
Median wage
$88,840
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 2%
#44Washington State University
Filings
411
Certified
58.4%
Median wage
$81,142
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 84%, Level II: 11%, Level III: 5%
#45University of Oklahoma
Filings
410
Certified
95.6%
Median wage
$85,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 63%, Level II: 17%, Level III: 19%, Level IV: 1%
#46University of Connecticut
Filings
409
Certified
72.9%
Median wage
$80,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level III: 100%
#47The Florida State University
Filings
392
Certified
75.0%
Median wage
$90,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 97%, Level II: 3%
#48Texas State University
Filings
386
Certified
66.1%
Median wage
$71,500
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
#49Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.
Filings
382
Certified
94.5%
Median wage
$209,998
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 3%, Level II: 18%, Level III: 75%, Level IV: 4%
#50Harvard University
Filings
380
Certified
61.8%
Median wage
$120,800
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 20%, Level III: 3%

How the sponsor-health signal is calculated

The badge blends each sponsor’s DOL certification rate (weighted toward the last five fiscal years), its denial rate, and its recent filing volume. Withdrawn filings are not counted against a sponsor, because a withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped. Sponsors with too few or too old filings show “Limited data” rather than a score. It reflects DOL paperwork outcomes only — not USCIS approval, pay quality, or an endorsement. Full methodology.

Where else Biological Science Teachers is sponsored

Other states with enough Biological Science Teachers filings to publish a sponsor breakdown.

Texas39 New York36 California39 Pennsylvania10 Florida15 Michigan12 Illinois13 Massachusetts15 Ohio13 Indiana6 Virginia9 North Carolina13

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Understand the data

Definitions and methodology behind these H-1B figures.

What “certification rate” means What an LCA is (and isn’t)How the sponsor-health signal works Common H-1B sponsorship questions