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Federal funding for universities in New Jersey 27 universities and colleges in New Jersey received $1.6 billion in federal awards in FY2025. Princeton University received the most ($409.6 million).
The largest recipients in New Jersey
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 27 institutions 27 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ $409.6M $169.9M 2 Rutgers, the State University (New Brunswick) New Brunswick, NJ $275.2M $139.0M 3 Rutgers the State University of New Jersey (Newark) Newark, NJ $241.8M $227.9M 4 Montclair State University Montclair, NJ $79.6M $7.9M 5 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ $77.3M $13.9M 6 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ $68.1M $36.5M 7 Rowan University Glassboro, NJ $58.6M $16.0M 8 Kean University Union, NJ $45.6M $4.0M 9 William Paterson University of New Jersey Wayne, NJ $27.5M $3.9M 10 Stockton University Galloway, NJ $25.6M $272,795 11 Union College of Union County, New Jersey Cranford, NJ $24.5M $0 12 Rutgers, the State University (Newark) Newark, NJ $23.5M $23.0M 13 Camden County College Blackwood, NJ $23.5M $1.4M 14 Rowan College at Burlington County Mount Laurel, NJ $21.6M $0 15 New Jersey City University Jersey City, NJ $21.5M $1.5M 16 Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, NJ $18.5M $2.9M 17 Passaic County Community College Paterson, NJ $18.3M $2.6M 18 Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ $17.9M $1.4M 19 College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ $17.5M $5.9M 20 Rowan College South Jersey Sewell, NJ $16.7M $65,173 21 Brookdale Community College Lincroft, NJ $16.6M $0 22 Ramapo College of New Jersey Mahwah, NJ $13.7M $4.9M 23 Saint Peter's University Jersey City, NJ $11.8M $1.6M 24 Rider University A New Jersey Non-Profit Corp Lawrenceville, NJ $9.3M $587,398 25 Monmouth University West Long Branch, NJ $8.9M -$523,769 26 Felician University Lodi, NJ $8.3M $848,680 27 Rutgers the State University of New Jersey (Piscataway) Piscataway, NJ $7.7M $7.7M
All federal money to New Jersey
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 .