The National Science Foundation (NSF) obligated $6.70B in grants to US colleges and universities in federal fiscal year 2025. University of Texas at Austin received the most, $215.0M, and California led all states with $824.7M.
| Rank | Recipient | Grants |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Texas at Austin | $215.0M |
| 2 | Columbia University in the City of New York | $136.2M |
| 3 | University of Michigan | $134.5M |
| 4 | Cornell University | $124.4M |
| 5 | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) | $118.4M |
| 6 | University of Washington | $117.6M |
| 7 | MIT | $116.2M |
| 8 | University of Illinois | $105.8M |
| 9 | University of Wisconsin System | $99.9M |
| 10 | University of Colorado | $98.8M |
| 11 | University of California, San Diego | $93.0M |
| 12 | University of California | $92.4M |
| 13 | California Institute of Technology | $86.8M |
| 14 | Purdue University | $86.0M |
| 15 | University of Chicago | $82.1M |
| 16 | Stanford University | $79.3M |
| 17 | Pennsylvania State University | $76.6M |
| 18 | Arizona State University | $73.6M |
| 19 | North Carolina State University | $71.8M |
| 20 | University of California, Santa Barbara | $70.3M |
| 21 | Carnegie-Mellon University | $70.2M |
| 22 | University of Minnesota | $66.5M |
| 23 | Princeton University | $64.7M |
| 24 | University of Pennsylvania | $63.7M |
| 25 | University of California San Diego | $63.5M |
| 26 | University of Florida | $61.4M |
| 27 | Northwestern University | $61.4M |
| 28 | Ohio State University | $60.5M |
| 29 | Duke University | $59.1M |
| 30 | Florida State University | $57.7M |
| 31 | University of Maryland, College Park | $57.1M |
| 32 | University of California, Davis | $55.6M |
| 33 | William Marsh Rice University | $55.5M |
| 34 | Oregon State University | $55.2M |
| 35 | Rutgers, the State University | $52.5M |
| 36 | University of Southern California | $51.7M |
| 37 | University of Delaware | $50.9M |
| 38 | Michigan State University | $50.2M |
| 39 | University of Alaska Fairbanks | $50.1M |
| 40 | Johns Hopkins University | $50.0M |
| 41 | University of Oklahoma | $48.3M |
| 42 | Research Foundation for the State University of New York | $48.1M |
| 43 | Northeastern University | $47.5M |
| 44 | Of the University of Nebraska | $46.2M |
| 45 | Texas A & M University | $46.1M |
| 46 | University of California Irvine | $45.7M |
| 47 | Brown University | $45.0M |
| 48 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $44.5M |
| 49 | University of Utah | $44.5M |
| 50 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $44.1M |
| State | Grants |
|---|---|
| California | $824.7M |
| Texas | $546.2M |
| New York | $501.1M |
| Massachusetts | $356.5M |
| Illinois | $315.1M |
| Pennsylvania | $287.0M |
| Florida | $233.0M |
| Michigan | $226.0M |
| North Carolina | $220.5M |
| Georgia | $200.2M |
| New Jersey | $171.7M |
| Colorado | $167.0M |
| Indiana | $159.4M |
| Maryland | $149.7M |
| Washington | $149.0M |
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