As others have pointed out H-1B is very popular on college campuses as they are cap exempt and come in on the lower end of the &quot;prevailing wage&quot; scale (because they are typically young and inexperienced)<p>An interesting&#x2F;alarming trend is that education institutions are &quot;hosting&quot; private companies as a sort of satellite office, where the developer is an employee of the university (to get around the H-1B cap) but all work is directed and owned by the company. So Acme Co. pays the PCU $20&#x2F;hr and PCU pays the H-1B $15&#x2F;hr and pockets the $5.<p>Ah the tangled webs we weave when at first we aim to deceive.