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People walk past blooming trees on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2025. (Photo by Scott Eisen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 American colleges and universities received gifts and contracts worth more than $5.2 billion from foreign entities in 2025, according to the\u00a0U.S. Department of Education<\/a>, which also recently published summaries of foreign investment in U.S. higher education dating back to 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Qatar, the United Kingdom, China, Switzerland, Japan, Germany and Saudi Arabia marked the largest sources of reportable gifts and contracts to U.S. institutions in 2025, according to the agency, which released the latest funding disclosures this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The department also made public roughly 40 years of data on a\u00a0transparency dashboard<\/a> that offers a snapshot of the foreign funding disclosures submitted by colleges and universities. The administration described the move as a transparency effort, but critics say it lacks key context.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dashboard shows cumulative data since 1986, when Congress amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 to mandate colleges and universities receiving federal financial assistance disclose any foreign gifts or contracts valued at or above $250,000 annually.<\/p>\n

The provision, known as Section 117, \u201ccame about due to concerns about malign actors trying to either use educational platforms to promote agendas that were not in the national interest or about getting access to American youth or about exerting influence on institutions,\u201d said Rick Hess, senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.<\/p>\n

And while the Education Department this month\u00a0heralded<\/a> the dashboard as a major step toward transparency in foreign influence in U.S. education, the tool does not separate gifts and contracts by year, limiting its use to help the public spot trends or identify major gifts.<\/p>\n

Details about the gifts and contracts, such as what was given or what work was contracted, are not displayed on the dashboard.<\/p>\n

Trump priority<\/h4>\n

President Donald Trump and his administration have sought to increase transparency requirements when it comes to foreign funds entering U.S. colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

Part of the administration\u2019s effort includes an\u00a0April 2025 executive order<\/a> that sought to \u201cend the secrecy surrounding\u00a0foreign funds<\/a> in American educational institutions\u201d and to \u201csafeguard America\u2019s students and research from foreign exploitation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The public transparency dashboard is housed on a portal,\u00a0launched in January<\/a>, where colleges and universities are responsible for disclosing foreign gifts and contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Education Department<\/a> announced Feb. 23 that it would partner with the State Department on foreign gift and contract reporting under Section 117.<\/p>\n

The move \u2014 one of several interagency agreements announced so far by the administration \u2014 is part of the administration\u2019s ongoing efforts to dismantle the 46-year-old agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

State will help the Education Department manage its foreign funding reporting portal and \u201cuse its national security and foreign national academic admissions expertise to review and assess the industry\u2019s compliance with the law, share data with the public and federal stakeholders, and identify potential threats,\u201d the Education Department\u00a0said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nearly $70 billion disclosed\u00a0<\/h4>\n

At least 555 institutions have disclosed $67.6 billion in foreign gifts and contracts between 1986 and mid-December 2025, according to the dashboard. <\/p>\n

The institutions that have received the most funding in foreign gifts and contracts since Section 117 was enacted are Harvard University in Massachusetts, at $4.2 billion; Carnegie Mellon University, in Pennsylvania, at $3.9 billion; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at $3.5 billion; Cornell University in New York, at $3.1 billion and the University of Pennsylvania, at $2.8 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dashboard also includes a separate section on the total value of transactions in foreign gifts and contracts with \u201ccounterparties located in countries of concern,\u201d such as China, Russia and Venezuela.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The universities that received the most money from counterparties in these \u201ccountries of concern\u201d are Harvard, at $610.8 million; MIT, at $490.1 million; New York University, at $462.5 million; Stanford University in California, at $418.5 million; and Yale University in Connecticut, at $400.2 million. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Concerns from higher ed groups\u00a0<\/h4>\n

Some higher education groups expressed concerns over the dashboard, including limitations they see with how the data is portrayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cumulative nature of the dashboard does not allow the public to see how the amount of money in foreign gifts and contracts received by schools fluctuated throughout the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way to kind of break out what the funding is by the year, or perhaps by the funding cycle, so you can\u2019t really see any funding trends,\u201d Sarah Spreitzer, vice president and chief of staff for government relations at the American Council on Education, told States Newsroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The association serves as the major coordinating body for the country\u2019s colleges and universities, representing roughly 1,600 institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spreitzer emphasized a lack of context throughout the dashboard, including on the list of foreign entities of concern and whether such funding is active or reflects past funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For instance, the\u00a0U.S. Department of Commerce<\/a> designated the Chinese tech company Huawei as an entity of concern in 2019.<\/p>\n

Huawei has provided roughly $22.7 million in funding to American universities, overall, according to the dashboard. But the dashboard doesn\u2019t show the gifts and contracts all came prior to the entity-of-concern designation, Spreitzer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of our institutions have taken funding from Huawei since 2019, if not earlier, when we were informed of the concerns around Huawei,\u201d Spreitzer said. \u201cHowever, the way that the information is presented, it seems to imply that our institutions are still taking funding from Huawei.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spreitzer said that the dashboard \u201cdemonstrates that our schools are complying with Section 117 and they are meeting their reporting obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that people are not making broad assumptions based on how the data is presented right now,\u201d added Spreitzer, who hopes the administration will continue making improvements to the dashboard, such as separating the disclosures by year and adding additional context.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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