Qatar largest foreign source of gifts & contracts to US universities in 2025, over $1.1 b

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Twice what China pumped in.

Qatar was the largest foreign source of gifts and contracts to American universities in 2025, amounting to over $1.1 billion.

This was revealed on Wednesday by the US Department of Education, which released the newest data compiled from foreign funding disclosures submitted by American colleges and universities for 2025. Universities receiving federal financial assistance are obligated to disclose foreign source gifts and contracts with a value of $250,000 or more annually.

The Education Department said that the “state of Palestine” provided $7,043,000 to US schools, most of which went to Indiana University of Pennsylvania ($6.4 million) and Brown University ($643,000). (somebody please educate the DOE that Palestine is NOT a state. And I though they're starving in Gaza, why are they donating to US universities?!?!)

In total, there were more than 8,300 transactions worth more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts.

The largest foreign sources of reportable gifts and contracts to American universities were Qatar (over $1.1 billion), the United Kingdom (over $633 million), China (over $528 million), Switzerland (over $451 million), Japan (over $374 million), Germany (over $292 million), and Saudi Arabia (over $285 million).

The top university recipients of those foreign funds were Carnegie Mellon University (almost $1 billion), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (almost $1 billion), Stanford University (over $775 million), and Harvard University (over $324 million).