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Who spends the most on facilities & debt service

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.
118Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$342.57MCombined facilities & debt service
831Reports parsed

Facilities debt service, leases, rental fees, and equipment.

Rank / schoolReported facilities & debt serviceChange
01

Missouri

$28.31M · $28,306,200

+119% YoY
02

Ohio State

$25.18M · $25,182,146

no prior year
03

Texas A&M

$21.48M · $21,483,682

no prior year
04

Michigan

$17.40M · $17,404,380

no prior year
05

Georgia Tech

$13.98M · $13,978,959

no prior year
06

Oklahoma

$13.95M · $13,946,565

−4% YoY
07

Mississippi State

$13.56M · $13,559,666

no prior year
08

South Carolina

$13.50M · $13,496,384

no prior year
09

Purdue

$13.04M · $13,036,513

no prior year
10

Indiana

$11.41M · $11,406,857

no prior year
11

Texas

$9.81M · $9,813,291

no prior year
12

Kentucky

$9.53M · $9,530,336

no prior year
13

Georgia

$9.48M · $9,482,094

−2% YoY
14

Clemson

$9.46M · $9,458,601

no prior year
15

UCLA

$9.39M · $9,387,307

no prior year
16

Oregon State

$7.98M · $7,975,535

+65% YoY
17

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$6.49M · $6,485,860

no prior year
18

UNLV

$6.27M · $6,267,112

no prior year
19

East Carolina

$5.71M · $5,707,279

no prior year
20

Texas State

$5.63M · $5,631,605

−1% YoY
21

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$4.94M · $4,942,824

no prior year
22

Arizona

$4.43M · $4,430,653

no prior year
23

George Mason University

$4.39M · $4,393,084

no prior year
24

Utah State

$4.18M · $4,176,346

no prior year
25

VCU

$4.01M · $4,005,866

no prior year
26

Georgia State

$3.96M · $3,957,346

+24% YoY
27

Boise State

$3.76M · $3,764,508

−25% YoY
28

South Dakota State

$3.59M · $3,590,979

no prior year
29

Stony Brook

$3.30M · $3,298,824

no prior year
30

Oklahoma State

$3.22M · $3,215,142

no prior year
31

Western Michigan

$2.94M · $2,938,900

+26% YoY
32

Illinois State University

$2.49M · $2,492,698

no prior year
33

Charlotte

$2.40M · $2,404,289

no prior year
34

Florida International

$2.40M · $2,402,392

no prior year
35

Florida Atlantic

$2.36M · $2,361,375

−5% YoY
36

University of Nebraska Omaha

$2.30M · $2,296,500

no prior year
37

NC State

$2.29M · $2,293,891

no prior year
38

South Dakota

$2.26M · $2,262,200

no prior year
39

Central Michigan

$1.92M · $1,917,168

−5% YoY
40

Southern Miss

$1.80M · $1,804,378

+2% YoY
41

University of California, Davis

$1.74M · $1,736,039

no prior year
42

UConn

$1.72M · $1,721,948

no prior year
43

Montana State

$1.53M · $1,534,125

no prior year
44

Virginia

$1.49M · $1,487,144

no prior year
45

Nevada

$1.48M · $1,477,154

no prior year
46

Oakland

$1.39M · $1,388,138

no prior year
47

Middle Tennessee

$1.28M · $1,280,777

no prior year
48

East Tennessee State

$1.22M · $1,224,580

no prior year
49

University of Northern Iowa

$1.09M · $1,086,982

no prior year
50

Buffalo

$1.08M · $1,077,096

+175% YoY
51

Nebraska

$965K · $965,416

no prior year
52

Kennesaw State

$963K · $962,766

−26% YoY
53

Eastern Kentucky

$953K · $952,521

no prior year
54

San José State

$883K · $883,014

no prior year
55

Montana

$785K · $785,292

no prior year
56

Idaho

$781K · $781,456

no prior year
57

UC Santa Barbara

$764K · $764,266

no prior year
58

NJIT

$648K · $647,978

no prior year
59

North Dakota State

$596K · $595,827

no prior year
60

Austin Peay State University

$523K · $522,603

no prior year
61

Western Carolina

$522K · $521,653

no prior year
62

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$460K · $459,996

no prior year
63

The University of North Carolina at

$437K · $437,000

no prior year
64

Sam Houston

$419K · $418,757

no prior year
65

University of Central Missouri

$407K · $406,804

no prior year
66

Eastern Michigan

$393K · $392,963

no prior year
67

Portland State University

$363K · $363,391

no prior year
68

Eastern New Mexico University

$347K · $347,082

no prior year
69

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$334K · $333,970

no prior year
70

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$307K · $306,907

no prior year
71

Fresno State

$287K · $287,156

no prior year
72

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$278K · $278,091

no prior year
73

Michigan Tech

$260K · $259,948

no prior year
74

New Mexico State

$240K · $240,000

flat
75

Rhode Island

$224K · $224,262

no prior year
76

North Carolina A&T State University

$172K · $171,586

−26% YoY
77

Maryland

$115K · $114,642

no prior year
78

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$107K · $106,634

no prior year
79

Weber State University

$103K · $103,244

no prior year
80

UNC Asheville

$78K · $78,074

no prior year
81

Indiana State

$73K · $72,609

no prior year
82

Towson

$55K · $54,750

no prior year
83

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$53K · $52,941

no prior year
84

Central Washington

$42K · $41,843

no prior year
85

Montana State University Billings

$42K · $41,665

no prior year
86

California State University, Bakersfield

$34K · $33,571

no prior year
87

University of West Florida

$29K · $29,444

no prior year
88

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$13K · $12,857

no prior year
89

Maine

$12K · $12,469

no prior year
90

Emporia State University

$1K · $1,177

no prior year
91

Nebraska-Kearney

$0 · $0

no prior year
92

Fort Lewis College

$0 · $0

no prior year
93

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

$0 · $0

no prior year
94

West Liberty University

$0 · $0

no prior year
95

Georgia College

$0 · $0

no prior year
96

California State University, Northridge

$0 · $0

no prior year
97

California State University, Fullerton

$0 · $0

no prior year
98

South Carolina State University

$0 · $0

no prior year
99

Stephen F. Austin State University

$0 · $0

no prior year
100

UAlbany

$0 · $0

no prior year
101

Florida Gulf Coast University

$0 · $0

no prior year
102

Black Hills State University

$0 · $0

no prior year
103

Cameron University

$0 · $0

no prior year
104

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$0 · $0

no prior year
105

North Carolina Central

$0 · $0

no prior year
106

North Alabama

$0 · $0

no prior year
107

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$0 · $0

no prior year
108

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$0 · $0

no prior year
109

Eastern Washington

$0 · $0

no prior year
110

Midwestern State University

$0 · $0

no prior year
111

Angelo State

$0 · $0

no prior year
112

Ball State

$0 · $0

no prior year
113

New Mexico

$0 · $0

no prior year
114

Albany State University (Georgia)

$0 · $0

no prior year
115

North Carolina

$0 · $0

no prior year
116

Idaho State

$0 · $0

no prior year
117

Morehead State

$0 · $0

no prior year
118

University of North Georgia

$0 · $0

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.