Who spends the most on athletic student aid
Scholarship dollars awarded to student-athletes.
Oklahoma
$15.06M · $15,056,236
Texas
$12.66M · $12,655,927
Georgia
$11.95M · $11,953,833
Missouri
$11.54M · $11,537,169
Western Michigan
$8.85M · $8,846,993
Buffalo
$8.73M · $8,727,511
Boise State
$8.38M · $8,379,098
Ball State
$8.23M · $8,228,569
Georgia State
$7.46M · $7,459,242
Arkansas State
$7.27M · $7,265,690
Georgia Southern
$7.03M · $7,026,031
App State
$6.53M · $6,534,872
Central Michigan
$6.39M · $6,387,466
Texas State
$5.28M · $5,282,035
UMBC
$5.06M · $5,061,424
University of Nebraska Omaha
$3.54M · $3,540,916
UT Arlington
$3.23M · $3,227,384
Montana State University Billings
$1.42M · $1,416,347
How to read these rankings
These figures come from filed NCAA financial reports collected in our document corpus and parsed from the report text. 831 reports parsed cleanly; 56 could not be read and are absent from these rankings, so a school missing from a year has not necessarily reported nothing.
Football and basketball views come from the report's per-sport allocation tables. They cover recruiting and team travel, not aviation alone: commercial airfare, buses, hotels, meals, and other eligible costs share the same lines. A school can also leave some expenses unallocated.
Private universities have no public-disclosure obligation and generally do not appear. Fiscal years are not uniform — most close June 30, but some schools close on a different date, so a single “FY” column compares slightly different periods. Schools also categorize inconsistently between reports, so treat cross-school gaps of a few percent as noise rather than signal.