US EditionU.S. Colleges Report $5.2B in Foreign Funds for 2025
- On Feb 11, the U.S. Department of Education updated its portal to include about $5.2 billion more in foreign gifts and contracts received by colleges in 2025, with new data visualization tools.
- As part of a policy push, the Trump administration expanded the portal to enforce Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, requiring reporting of foreign gifts over $250,000 and investigating Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley for underreporting.
- Data show funding concentrated at elite schools, with Carnegie Mellon University and MIT nearly $1 billion each, and Qatar as the largest foreign source at over $1.1 billion.
- The department flagged late reporting totaling more than $2 billion between February 28 and December 16, 2025, while the American Association of University Professors criticized Palantir's role in building the portal.
- The portal's figures are cumulative since 1986 and do not break down gifts yearly, the 2025 disclosures include submissions through Dec. 16, 2025, while Republicans have long pushed for expanded oversight.
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