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Who spends the most on athletic student aid

Every figure is read from the school's own NCAA financial report — the annual filing each Division I athletics department submits to the NCAA. Ranked by reported dollars, not by results.
117Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$822.59MCombined athletic student aid
831Reports parsed

Scholarship dollars awarded to student-athletes.

Rank / schoolReported athletic student aidChange
01

Michigan

$27.91M · $27,913,057

no prior year
02

Virginia

$21.67M · $21,669,427

no prior year
03

Ohio State

$20.62M · $20,624,606

no prior year
04

Clemson

$18.17M · $18,172,287

no prior year
05

North Carolina

$18.04M · $18,036,119

no prior year
06

Indiana

$17.52M · $17,518,837

no prior year
07

Maryland

$17.41M · $17,412,064

no prior year
08

Oklahoma

$16.15M · $16,151,142

+1% YoY
09

South Carolina

$15.89M · $15,893,819

no prior year
10

UCLA

$15.70M · $15,701,310

no prior year
11

Kentucky

$14.57M · $14,570,437

no prior year
12

Arizona

$13.99M · $13,991,142

no prior year
13

NC State

$13.45M · $13,446,149

no prior year
14

Nebraska

$13.01M · $13,006,562

no prior year
15

UConn

$12.95M · $12,952,288

no prior year
16

Texas

$12.49M · $12,487,589

no prior year
17

Texas A&M

$12.40M · $12,403,372

no prior year
18

Missouri

$12.28M · $12,284,541

−2% YoY
19

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$12.18M · $12,184,320

no prior year
20

Purdue

$12.13M · $12,128,064

no prior year
21

Georgia

$11.93M · $11,930,881

+10% YoY
22

Georgia Tech

$11.53M · $11,525,110

no prior year
23

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$10.35M · $10,345,039

no prior year
24

Oregon State

$10.05M · $10,047,156

−7% YoY
25

Mississippi State

$10.02M · $10,024,972

no prior year
26

Rhode Island

$9.94M · $9,942,575

no prior year
27

UNLV

$9.90M · $9,902,832

no prior year
28

Boise State

$9.05M · $9,054,874

+3% YoY
29

University of California, Davis

$8.87M · $8,872,502

no prior year
30

Nevada

$8.85M · $8,848,741

no prior year
31

Eastern Michigan

$8.83M · $8,825,808

no prior year
32

UAlbany

$8.69M · $8,685,155

no prior year
33

Middle Tennessee

$8.65M · $8,650,479

no prior year
34

East Carolina

$8.15M · $8,154,692

no prior year
35

Charlotte

$8.14M · $8,136,443

no prior year
36

Buffalo

$8.12M · $8,119,908

−5% YoY
37

Towson

$8.07M · $8,074,548

no prior year
38

New Mexico State

$7.99M · $7,991,454

−3% YoY
39

San José State

$7.89M · $7,885,272

no prior year
40

Stony Brook

$7.84M · $7,844,897

no prior year
41

Georgia State

$7.76M · $7,762,081

−1% YoY
42

Oklahoma State

$7.68M · $7,684,774

no prior year
43

Illinois State University

$7.66M · $7,655,923

no prior year
44

VCU

$7.55M · $7,550,644

no prior year
45

Ball State

$7.54M · $7,536,443

no prior year
46

Fresno State

$7.27M · $7,267,597

no prior year
47

Western Michigan

$6.85M · $6,847,710

−14% YoY
48

Utah State

$6.79M · $6,792,199

no prior year
49

Florida International

$6.65M · $6,648,256

no prior year
50

George Mason University

$6.60M · $6,598,272

no prior year
51

Texas State

$6.55M · $6,550,905

+16% YoY
52

Maine

$6.53M · $6,527,192

no prior year
53

Eastern Kentucky

$6.38M · $6,376,115

no prior year
54

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$6.33M · $6,329,162

no prior year
55

Idaho

$6.27M · $6,272,208

no prior year
56

Portland State University

$6.05M · $6,047,822

no prior year
57

Southern Miss

$5.95M · $5,946,673

+4% YoY
58

Montana State

$5.93M · $5,928,028

no prior year
59

UC Santa Barbara

$5.69M · $5,689,631

no prior year
60

Central Michigan

$5.63M · $5,631,805

−9% YoY
61

Montana

$5.59M · $5,586,684

no prior year
62

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$5.53M · $5,533,242

no prior year
63

Indiana State

$5.46M · $5,455,493

no prior year
64

East Tennessee State

$5.39M · $5,390,992

no prior year
65

Stephen F. Austin State University

$5.28M · $5,283,457

no prior year
66

North Dakota State

$5.16M · $5,162,406

no prior year
67

Oakland

$5.01M · $5,005,594

no prior year
68

Idaho State

$4.98M · $4,977,133

flat
69

Michigan Tech

$4.85M · $4,853,548

no prior year
70

South Dakota

$4.80M · $4,804,636

no prior year
71

Sam Houston

$4.65M · $4,649,646

no prior year
72

North Carolina A&T State University

$4.62M · $4,622,093

+12% YoY
73

Weber State University

$4.58M · $4,580,060

no prior year
74

NJIT

$4.53M · $4,526,068

no prior year
75

University of Northern Iowa

$4.44M · $4,444,898

no prior year
76

Austin Peay State University

$4.42M · $4,418,758

no prior year
77

Kennesaw State

$4.38M · $4,379,964

−14% YoY
78

North Carolina Central

$4.31M · $4,314,619

no prior year
79

South Dakota State

$4.20M · $4,197,010

no prior year
80

Eastern Washington

$4.12M · $4,118,308

no prior year
81

Florida Gulf Coast University

$4.08M · $4,078,344

+8% YoY
82

California State University, Fullerton

$3.90M · $3,900,113

no prior year
83

Florida Atlantic

$3.83M · $3,833,961

+9% YoY
84

North Alabama

$3.81M · $3,811,096

no prior year
85

University of Nebraska Omaha

$3.59M · $3,586,351

no prior year
86

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$3.52M · $3,516,995

no prior year
87

The University of North Carolina at

$3.49M · $3,493,439

no prior year
88

California State University, Northridge

$3.20M · $3,196,880

no prior year
89

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$3.15M · $3,151,869

no prior year
90

Western Carolina

$3.15M · $3,145,783

no prior year
91

University of West Florida

$3.07M · $3,072,922

no prior year
92

University of Central Missouri

$3.07M · $3,071,433

no prior year
93

California State University, Bakersfield

$3.05M · $3,047,495

no prior year
94

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$2.86M · $2,859,394

no prior year
95

UNC Asheville

$2.72M · $2,718,411

no prior year
96

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$2.48M · $2,475,054

no prior year
97

West Liberty University

$2.42M · $2,420,014

no prior year
98

Nebraska-Kearney

$2.42M · $2,418,735

no prior year
99

Fort Lewis College

$2.37M · $2,371,890

no prior year
100

Angelo State

$2.31M · $2,311,461

no prior year
101

Midwestern State University

$2.30M · $2,304,526

no prior year
102

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$2.25M · $2,249,076

no prior year
103

Central Washington

$2.21M · $2,212,930

no prior year
104

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

$2.08M · $2,075,826

no prior year
105

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$2.05M · $2,046,691

no prior year
106

South Carolina State University

$2.05M · $2,045,917

no prior year
107

Eastern New Mexico University

$1.98M · $1,980,846

no prior year
108

Emporia State University

$1.92M · $1,915,780

no prior year
109

New Mexico

$1.81M · $1,808,537

no prior year
110

University of North Georgia

$1.65M · $1,646,067

no prior year
111

Cameron University

$1.62M · $1,621,659

no prior year
112

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$1.62M · $1,617,816

no prior year
113

Montana State University Billings

$1.29M · $1,291,354

no prior year
114

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$1.13M · $1,129,636

no prior year
115

Black Hills State University

$1.10M · $1,098,300

no prior year
116

Georgia College

$1.03M · $1,026,199

no prior year
117

Albany State University (Georgia)

$674K · $673,684

no prior year
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.