Education Department data shows foreign contracts, gifts to US colleges topped $5B in 2025

Minnesota colleges collected $700M from foreign sources since 2015

Share This Story(The Center Square) – Nearly $700 million in foreign funding has flowed to Minnesota institutes of higher education over the past decade, according to newly-released federal disclosure data. The reports, released by the U.S. Department of Education, include updated 2025 disclosures from 555 American colleges and universities. Of the 11 Minnesota institutions looked at in the report, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities brought…

Education Department data shows foreign contracts, gifts to US colleges topped $5B in 2025 • Oklahoma Voice

People walk past blooming trees on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2025. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — American colleges and universities received gifts and contracts worth more than $5.2 billion from foreign entities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which also recently published summaries of foreign investment in U.S. higher education dating back to 1986.  Qatar, the U…

Education Department data shows foreign contracts, gifts to US colleges topped $5B in 2025 • SC Daily Gazette

People walk past blooming trees on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2025. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — American colleges and universities received gifts and contracts worth more than $5.2 billion from foreign entities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which also recently published summaries of foreign investment in U.S. higher education dating back to 1986.  Qatar, the U…

Education Department data shows foreign contracts, gifts to US colleges topped $5B in 2025

People walk past blooming trees on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2025. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — American colleges and universities received gifts and contracts worth more than $5.2 billion from foreign entities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which also recently published summaries of foreign investment in U.S. higher education dating back to 1986.  Qatar, the U…