Who spends the most on recruiting
Transportation, lodging, and meals for prospective student-athletes and for staff on official and unofficial visits.
Georgia
$3.99M · $3,990,422
Texas
$3.20M · $3,199,072
Oklahoma
$2.54M · $2,542,581
Missouri
$1.66M · $1,657,753
Boise State
$774K · $773,739
Buffalo
$586K · $585,562
Central Michigan
$549K · $549,165
Texas State
$531K · $531,321
Western Michigan
$519K · $518,978
App State
$503K · $503,266
Ball State
$480K · $479,643
Arkansas State
$476K · $475,581
Georgia State
$422K · $421,635
Georgia Southern
$391K · $390,582
University of Nebraska Omaha
$225K · $225,366
UMBC
$178K · $178,014
UT Arlington
$167K · $166,852
Montana State University Billings
$46K · $46,066
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.