Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - INSTITUTIONAL AID › Part Part B— - Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities › § 1063
The Secretary must divide the money set aside for part B institutions each year using three formulas. Half of the money is split based on each school’s share of Pell Grant students in the previous school year. One-fourth is split based on each school’s share of graduates that year. The other one-fourth is split based on each school’s share of graduates who, within 5 years, go to graduate or professional school in fields where Black students are underrepresented. If the formula would give a school more than $250,000 but less than $500,000, the school gets $500,000. If the formula would give a school $250,000 or less, the school gets $250,000, unless subsection (h) prevents the award. If the money available under section 1068h(a)(2)(A) is not enough to pay all of those minimum amounts, the minimums are reduced across schools in proportion and later raised if extra money appears. Any money a school does not need while it is available can be reallocated to other schools in proportion to their original awards. A school will not get any allotment for a year if, in the prior academic year, it had no Pell Grant students, had no graduates, or (where that measure applies) had no graduates who were admitted to and attending graduate or professional school within 5 years. A school also must give the Secretary the data needed for the formulas: the number of Pell Grant students, the number of associate or baccalaureate degrees awarded, and, where appropriate, the percentage who entered graduate or professional school within 5 years. Schools that merged before fiscal year 1986 may apply, and the Secretary may make rules for that. Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia cannot get an allotment under the graduate/graduate-school parts for a year if those amounts would not exceed what they get under their older laws.
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20 U.S.C. § 1063
Title 20 — Education
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73