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Federal funding for universities in Pennsylvania 31 universities and colleges in Pennsylvania received $3.7 billion in federal awards in FY2025. University of Pennsylvania received the most ($889.4 million).
The largest recipients in Pennsylvania
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 31 institutions 31 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA $889.4M $843.0M 2 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA $816.9M $758.5M 3 Pennsylvania State University (University Park) University Park, PA $658.6M $305.8M 4 Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA $333.7M $155.6M 5 Temple University Philadelphia, PA $149.2M $90.5M 6 Pennsylvania State University (State College) State College, PA $121.3M $1.9M 7 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA $105.3M $70.2M 8 Pennsylvania State University (Hershey) Hershey, PA $96.2M $95.9M 9 Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA $90.2M $77.1M 10 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA $43.1M $29.1M 11 West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Chester, PA $30.6M $2.8M 12 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown, PA $27.8M $7.0M 13 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA $25.4M $5.6M 14 Pennsylvania Western University California, PA $24.4M $3.6M 15 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA $23.5M $1.5M 16 Villanova University in the State of Pennsylvania Villanova, PA $20.7M $8.4M 17 Mercyhurst University Erie, PA $19.6M $14.2M 18 Lincoln University (PA) Lincoln University, PA $18.1M $10.3M 19 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania East Stroudsburg, PA $15.9M $818,140 20 Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA $15.5M $0 21 Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Cheyney, PA $14.7M $7.5M 22 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Shippensburg, PA $14.7M $5.2M 23 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA $14.7M $76,475 24 Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit Pittsburgh, PA $14.3M $3.7M 25 Widener University Chester, PA $13.8M $674,407 26 Saint Josephs University Philadelphia, PA $13.0M $1.2M 27 Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville, PA $12.8M $1.4M 28 Pennsylvania College of Technology Williamsport, PA $11.5M $643,379 29 Eastern University Wayne, PA $10.3M $2.0M 30 Lackawanna College Scranton, PA $8.2M $0 31 University of Scranton Scranton, PA $8.0M $587,984
All federal money to Pennsylvania
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 .