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Assistance to Higher Education
(FY 2008)

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Summary


Fiscal Year: 2008
Federal dollars: $136,906,866,011
The amount for this search is 18.5% of total Federal dollars for the fiscal year.
Total number of recipients: 5,630
Total number of transactions: 294,635
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Top 5 Known Congressional Districts where Recipients are Located Known Congressional District help link

Massachusetts 8 (Michael E. Capuano)$3,352,459,954
Pennsylvania 5 (John E. Peterson)$2,690,708,893
Illinois 7 (Danny K. Davis)$2,583,970,324
Michigan 15 (John D. Dingell)$2,433,505,264
District of Columbia nonvoting (Eleanor Holmes Norton)$2,337,930,517

Top 10 Recipients

TRUSTEES INDIANA UNIVERSITY$2,517,774,779
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM$2,445,731,423
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$2,052,172,910
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MINN$1,902,037,187
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,768,712,767
STRAYER UNIVERSITY INC$1,766,475,804
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$1,736,111,402
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,635,696,763
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,596,405,451
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$1,423,419,602

Recipient Type

Higher Education$136,906,866,011
Other$0
Nonprofits$0
Individuals$0
For Profits$0
Government$0

 


Top 5 Programs

84.268: Federal Direct Student Loans$83,324,157,611
84.063: Federal Pell Grant Program$16,035,980,107
84.031: Higher Education_Institutional Aid$2,761,142,616
84.047: TRIO_Upward Bound$1,938,714,284
84.033: Federal Work-Study Program$1,794,475,280

Top 5 Agencies Providing Assistance

EDUCATION, Department of$84,515,438,056
DOED - Student Financial Assistance Programs$19,057,677,859
HHS - National Institutes of Health$14,120,910,882
DOED - Office of Higher Education Programs$5,352,563,117
National Science Foundation$3,086,692,308

Assistance Type

Other$100,245,243,200
Direct Payments (both specified and unrestricted)$18,968,683,087
Grants and Cooperative Agreements$17,692,125,290
Loans (both direct and guaranteed)$814,434
Insurance$0

 

Trend

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2000Data from census.gov$39,619,241,083
2001$40,084,505,502
2002$40,457,453,533
2003$53,371,062,074
2004$43,721,146,787
2005$47,213,125,872
2006$43,910,508,459
2007Data from Agencies$51,174,996,779
2008$136,906,866,011
2009 1Q * Partial year help link$5,980,019,106


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This search was done on January 17, 2009.

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