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PERM sponsor, #3,998 of 70,985 by filings
Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University sponsors green cards: it filed 8 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 22, 2026. Middle Tennessee State University has 8 PERM cases waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 17% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Murfreesboro, TN · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with Middle Tennessee State University?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
12 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.
Why
Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.
Filings
12
#3,998 of 70,985
Certified
12
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 12 decided
Median wage
$73,200
offered, per year
Median days
452
14 faster than the field
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Waiting on a decision
8
of 25 tracked cases. The other 17 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed June 18, 2026, 4 months ago.
Where those 8 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 8100%
A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.
None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.
Follow Middle Tennessee State University
An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-300-26173-039077 Assistant Professor of Agriculture - Fermentation Science filed 2026-06-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26173-038916 Assistant Professor of Chemistry filed 2026-06-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26173-038730 Assistant Professor of Concrete & Construction Management filed 2026-06-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26169-030824 Assistant Professor of Agriculture-Agribusiness filed 2026-06-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26169-030300 Assistant Professor of Management- Supply Chain filed 2026-06-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26169-029951 Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology filed 2026-06-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26169-031706 Assistant Professor of Physics filed 2026-06-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26169-031808 Assistant Professor of Marketing filed 2026-06-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
The 8 newest. Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.
Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 80,340 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 12 published
- 8 pending
- $73,200 median, n=12
- Prevailing wage requests
- 23 published
- 0 pending
- $56,430 median, n=19
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 70 published
- 0 pending
- $77,000 median, n=70
Its median H-1B wage is $77,000 across 70 LCAs, 5.2% higher than its median PERM wage of $73,200 across 12 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.
Every case across these programs is in the search.
How these are counted
Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by Middle Tennessee State University, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-25328-433723 Assistant Professor of Agriculture-Agribusiness $72,390 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25328-433701 Assistant Professor of Management- Supply Chain $55,740 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25328-433682 Assistant Professor of Marketing $55,740 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25328-433658 Assistant Professor of Agriculture - Fermentation Science $72,390 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25328-433605 Assistant Professor of Physics $59,960 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26146-949508 Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies $68,206 per year 2026-05-26 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26133-906207 Assistant Professor of Computer Science $100,000 per year 2026-05-13 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26107-808583 Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy $83,750 per year 2026-04-17 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26051-654330 Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics $128,395.75 per year 2026-02-20 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26051-654183 Assistant Professor - Religious Studies $63,432.78 per year 2026-02-20 · CERTIFIED
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 100% of its coded PERM filings name NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and colleges hire H-1B workers outside the lottery (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(5)(A)). Whether this employer qualifies is USCIS's call.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 70 LCAs filed by Middle Tennessee State University, 70 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
36 positions for new employment, 12 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 36 · 51%
- Change of employer 7e 12 · 17%
- Continuing 7b 22 · 31%
- Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%
Shares of the 70 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.
What each box on the form means
- New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
- Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
- Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
- Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
- Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
- Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.
Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.
Wage level it chose
- Level I 67 · 100%
- Level II 0 · 0%
- Level III 0 · 0%
- Level IV 0 · 0%
Shares of the 67 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 3 of 70 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.
What it declared on Section H
- H-1B-dependent
- No
- Found a willful violator
- No
As answered on its newest LCA, filed May 26, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 65 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 70. Both are the employer's own answers.
What the two answers mean
H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.
Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.
Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
8 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 88% of the 13,995 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
33 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 89% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
18% of 33 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 61% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
0.0% of 33 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 4% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
97.1% of 35 USCIS decisions
Higher than 32% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
452 daysmiddle of 12 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 11 and 12 filings.
- Their median wait
- 444 days
- This one
- 452 days
This one sits 8 days behind them.
Why no approval rate
A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 3,998 of 70,985 by volume: 3,997 filed at least as many filings, and 66,987 filed no more.
- Just above
- Sanford Clinic North 12 filings
- Just below
- Serrano Construction and Development Corp. 12 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #3,997 Sanford Clinic North 12 filings · none denied
- #3,999 Serrano Construction and Development Corp. 12 filings · none denied
- #3,996 CLOUD RESOURCES LLC 12 filings · none denied
- #4,000 BEST 3 LOGISTICS, INC. 12 filings · none denied
- #3,995 Diamond Nails Spa Schererville LLC 12 filings · none denied
- #4,001 Cira Infotech 12 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Business Teachers, Postsecondary, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #299 Univ of WI System 124 filings · 2 denied
- #478 Indiana University 78 filings · 3 denied
- #391 The Pennsylvania State University 93 filings · 1 denied
- #926 Harvard University 43 filings · none denied
- #698 The University of Chicago 56 filings · none denied
- #465 Purdue University 79 filings · 3 denied
What they file, and where
A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.
What the jobs are
Business Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1011.00 · 2 filings, 17% of everything they file
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1021.002
- Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1126.002
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1121.001
- Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1032.001
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1124.001
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 9 of 12 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
The industry they declared
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
NAICS 611310 · 12 filings
How this is counted
The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.
Where the jobs are
- Tennessee 12
How this is counted
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. This state covers 12 of 12 filings.
Where the work is
- Murfreesboro, TN 12
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 12 of 12 filings.
History
Year by year since 2008
61 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2025, busiest in FY2025 with 12.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2010 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 23. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22231-08873 | 2023-06-01 | certified | Asst. Professor of Leisure & Sport Management(Tourism & Hospitality), TN | $71,900 |
| A-22231-08952 | 2023-05-31 | certified | Asst. Prof. of Journalism (Public Relations), TN | $61,000 |
| A-21194-16680 | 2022-01-05 | certified | Asst. Professor of Computer Science, TN | $80,800 |
| A-21194-16671 | 2022-01-05 | certified | Asst. Professor of Computer Science, TN | $80,500 |
| A-21190-15081 | 2021-12-23 | certified | Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, TN | $78,100 |
| A-20175-68600 | 2021-02-01 | certified | Asst Professor of Economics, TN | $93,000 |
| A-20164-65139 | 2021-01-14 | certified | Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, TN | $57,855 |
| A-20162-64043 | 2021-01-14 | certified | Asst. Professor of Finance, TN | $122,500 |
The other 15
| A-20164-65130 | 2021-01-04 | certified | Assistant Professor of Mathematics, TN | $68,400 |
| A-20136-55048 | 2020-12-03 | certified | Asst. Professor of Biology/Evolutionary Biology, TN | $63,500 |
| A-20132-52974 | 2020-10-28 | certified | Asst Prof of Agribusiness/Agricultural Economics, TN | $66,500 |
| A-20156-62109 | 2020-06-22 | withdrawn | Assistant Professor of Economics, TN | $93,000 |
| A-19217-40074 | 2019-11-04 | certified | Asst. Professor of Music, Musicology, TN | $53,750 |
| A-19205-35246 | 2019-10-22 | certified | Asst. Prof. Actuarial Science, TN | $72,000 |
| A-18287-28848 | 2019-01-29 | certified | Asst. Prof., Environmental Engineering Technology, TN | $78,750 |
| A-18255-17752 | 2018-12-04 | certified | ASST PROF, ENGLISH, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, TN | $50,000 |
| A-18232-09479 | 2018-10-09 | certified | Asst. Professor, Soil Science, Agribusiness/Agriscience, TN | $66,280 |
| A-18162-85346 | 2018-08-20 | certified | Assistant Professor of Economics, TN | $91,750 |
| A-18162-85319 | 2018-08-17 | certified | ASST PROFESSOR, FERMENTATION SCI, AGRIBUSINESS/AGRISCIENCE, TN | $65,300 |
| A-17184-59363 | 2017-12-11 | certified | Asst. Professor, Library Science, TN | $58,000 |
| A-17164-49905 | 2017-10-19 | certified | Asst Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Statistics, TN | $65,000 |
| A-17165-50768 | 2017-10-19 | certified | Asst. Prof., Leisure, Sport and Tourism Studies, TN | $55,300 |
| A-17074-14076 | 2017-05-24 | certified | Asst Professor of Geosciences, Hydrogeology/Hydrology, TN | $62,620 |
Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023
From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.
Country of citizenship
- China 7
- Canada 3
- India 2
- Italy 2
- Nepal 2
- South Korea 2
Worker's education
- Doctorate 23
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 22
- TN 1
Schools
- GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY 2
- MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY 2
- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA 2
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY 1
Fields of study
- ECONOMICS 3
- COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE 2
- AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS 1
- AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 1
- CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 1
- COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1
Notes on these numbers
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The 2 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #3,998 counts this page's cases only.
2 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 2 of 12. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Volume doesn’t change the wait
- DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 12 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 3,998. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
- A median over 12 decided cases
- The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
- Two sources, and they do not add up
- The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is TN. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 21, 2026 · daily
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.