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Federal funding for universities in Massachusetts 37 universities and colleges in Massachusetts received $4.0 billion in federal awards in FY2025. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Lexington) received the most ($1.4 billion).
The largest recipients in Massachusetts
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 37 institutions 37 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Lexington) Lexington, MA $1.4B $0 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) Cambridge, MA $442.8M $413.0M 3 Boston University Boston, MA $420.3M $332.4M 4 University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA $276.0M $225.8M 5 Harvard University (Cambridge) Cambridge, MA $254.3M $249.0M 6 University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Amherst, MA $164.6M $120.4M 7 Harvard University (Boston) Boston, MA $155.6M $152.6M 8 Northeastern University Boston, MA $149.0M $112.0M 9 Tufts College (Boston) Boston, MA $117.4M $89.8M 10 University of Mass at Boston Dorchester, MA $70.8M $30.6M 11 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA $63.5M $39.4M 12 Tufts College (Medford) Medford, MA $49.6M $38.3M 13 Brandeis University Waltham, MA $44.9M $38.8M 14 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA $33.7M $26.7M 15 Bunker Hill Community College Charlestown, MA $29.1M $1.1M 16 University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury) Shrewsbury, MA $27.3M $0 17 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA $25.4M $9.6M 18 University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA $23.5M $23.0M 19 Bristol Community College Fall River, MA $20.3M $193,631 20 Bridgewater State University Bridgewater, MA $19.6M $521,330 21 Quinsigamond Community College Worcester, MA $18.8M $272,364 22 Middlesex Community College Bedford, MA $16.9M $1.1M 23 Mount Wachusett Community College Gardner, MA $14.8M $4.5M 24 Salem State University Salem, MA $14.6M $1.0M 25 North Shore Community College Danvers, MA $13.9M $1.8M 26 Suffolk University Boston, MA $12.6M $1.1M 27 Northern Essex Community College Haverhill, MA $11.7M $453,065 28 Holyoke Community College Holyoke, MA $11.5M $408,369 29 Westfield State University Westfield, MA $11.4M $1.6M 30 Worcester State University Worcester, MA $10.7M $220,078 31 Massasoit Community College Brockton, MA $10.7M $636,984 32 McPhs University Boston, MA $10.0M $0 33 Fitchburg State University Fitchburg, MA $9.6M $1.8M 34 Berklee College of Music Boston, MA $8.9M $0 35 Clark University Worcester, MA $8.0M $3.6M 36 Framingham State University Framingham, MA $7.8M $0 37 Mass Maritime Academy Buzzards Bay, MA $6.3M $0
All federal money to Massachusetts
Sources and notes USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by recipient, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods .