NAICS category

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

NAICS 611310

FY2026 ended Sep 30 · data still posting · data as of 2026-11-01†

† DoD contract data posts to USAspending about 90 days after award.

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$738.2M
Federal awards
FY2026 · data still posting
125
Recipients
NAICS 611310
Code

NAICS code 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools) accounted for $738.2M in federal contracts in FY2026, led by the Department of Defense, across 125 recipients. FY2026 ended Sep 30 and its data is still posting. Computed

Obligations by year

Computed
$725.1M
FY20
$803.1M
FY21
$698.5M
FY22
$799.8M
FY23
$678.6M
FY24
$835.1M
FY25
$738.2M
FY26 partial
▲ 15%
FY20 to FY25

Key takeaways

Computed
FY2026 ended Sep 30 · data still posting · data as of 2026-11-01
  • Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (NAICS 611310) accounted for $738.2M in federal obligations in FY2026, compared with $835.1M in FY2025.
  • It ranked #99 among industries by federal contract dollars in FY2026 (data still posting).
  • The Department of Defense provided 35% of it.

Top recipients

Computed

The five largest recipients on record received 34% of this category's FY2026 obligations, and the ten largest 38%.

The Trustees of Princeton University$196.2M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$30.1M
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center$9.1M
University of Louisville$8.9M
Oregon Health & Science University$7.6M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$7.2M
The Johns Hopkins University$7.1M
Yale Univ$6.1M
University of Southern California$6.1M
Brigham & Womens Hospital Inc$6.1M

Recipient breakdown available for 55% of obligations shown

Awards

Source

Largest FY2026 awards in this category

Awards coded NAICS 611310 that started in FY2026, by the amount obligated on each so far.

No award on record in this category started in FY2026.

Largest awards in this category

Operation of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
awarded 1999$18B
Management and Operating Contract for the Operation of the Princeton Plasma…
awarded 2009$2.2B
Nustar Is a Pricipal Investigator (Pi)-Led Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission That…
awarded 2008$140M
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess) Project
awarded 2013$110.1M

Total value over each award’s life, largest first.

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