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UniversitiesWest VirginiaFiscal year 2025

Federal funding for universities in West Virginia

8 universities and colleges in West Virginia received $232.4 million in federal awards in FY2025. West Virginia University Research Corporation received the most ($77.2 million).

The largest recipients in West Virginia

Federal awards, FY2025.

West Virginia University Research Corporation WV$77M
West Virginia University WV$68M
Marshall University WV$25M
Marshall University Research Corporation WV$19M
West Virginia State University Research and Development Corporation WV$16M
Bluefield State Unversity WV$11M
Fairmont State University WV$8.6M
Shepherd University WV$7.1M

Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.

All 8 institutions

8 institutions
#InstitutionLocationFY2025 totalGrants
1West Virginia University Research CorporationMorgantown, WV$77.2M$75.5M
2West Virginia UniversityMorgantown, WV$68.5M$28.7M
3Marshall UniversityHuntington, WV$24.6M$0
4Marshall University Research CorporationHuntington, WV$19.2M$17.6M
5West Virginia State University Research and Development CorporationDunbar, WV$16.3M$16.3M
6Bluefield State UnversityBluefield, WV$10.9M$7.1M
7Fairmont State UniversityFairmont, WV$8.6M$941,330
8Shepherd UniversityShepherdstown, WV$7.1M$1.2M

All federal money to West Virginia

Sources and notes

  1. 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.
  2. How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.