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Federal funding for universities in North Carolina 29 universities and colleges in North Carolina received $2.8 billion in federal awards in FY2025. Duke University received the most ($762.5 million).
The largest recipients in North Carolina
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 29 institutions 29 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 Duke University Durham, NC $762.5M $715.0M 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC $690.0M $602.8M 3 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC $278.7M $218.9M 4 Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winston Salem, NC $195.0M $175.6M 5 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Greensboro, NC $133.7M $81.6M 6 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC $87.5M $20.7M 7 North Carolina Central University Durham, NC $68.1M $35.4M 8 University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC $67.7M $13.0M 9 East Carolina University Greenville, NC $67.5M $19.5M 10 Appalachian State University Boone, NC $56.9M $16.3M 11 Fayetteville State University Fayetteville, NC $56.4M $30.3M 12 Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte, NC $43.5M $801,932 13 Winston-Salem State University Winston Salem, NC $40.7M $18.8M 14 Fayetteville Technical Community College Fayetteville, NC $36.4M $0 15 University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, NC $29.5M $1.2M 16 Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC $28.4M $3.3M 17 Guilford Technical Community College Jamestown, NC $28.0M $0 18 Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City, NC $25.0M $15.7M 19 University of North Carolina at Pembroke Pembroke, NC $24.1M $4.5M 20 Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte, NC $14.5M $7.3M 21 Wake Forest University Winston Salem, NC $14.5M $8.1M 22 Livingstone College Salisbury, NC $11.4M $6.1M 23 Shaw University Raleigh, NC $11.0M $5.9M 24 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Asheville, NC $10.1M $619,093 25 Wingate University Wingate, NC $8.9M $0 26 Campbell University Buies Creek, NC $8.8M $25,223 27 University of North Carolina at Asheville Asheville, NC $8.0M $871,656 28 High Point University High Point, NC $6.3M $577,655 29 Saint Augustine's University Raleigh, NC $5.5M $5.8M
All federal money to North Carolina
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 .