Title 20 › Chapter 28— HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter III— INSTITUTIONAL AID › Part B— Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities › § 1063
From the annual money set aside for this program, the Secretary must give each part B institution a share based on three parts of the pot: half is split by each school’s share of Pell Grant students, one quarter is split by each school’s share of graduates, and one quarter is split by each school’s share of graduates who, within 5 years, enter graduate or professional programs in fields where Black students are underrepresented. If a school’s computed award would be over $250,000 but under $500,000, it gets $500,000. If the computed award would be $250,000 or less, it gets $250,000. If there is not enough money to pay every school those minimum amounts, the minimum payments are cut back proportionally and later raised proportionally if more money becomes available. Any money an institution does not need may be reallocated to other part B institutions in proportion to their original shares. A school will not get money for a year if, in the previous academic year, it had no Pell Grant students, or no graduates, or (when that measure applies) no graduates who went on within 5 years to the specified graduate or professional programs. A school also must give the Secretary the data needed for the formula: its number of Pell students, number of graduates, and, where relevant, the percentage who entered those graduate or professional programs within 5 years. The Secretary may allow older eligible schools that merged with other schools to apply and can make rules to do this. If Howard University or the University of the District of Columbia would receive amounts under the graduate and graduate-entry parts that are not greater than amounts they get under older laws, those universities are ineligible for these allotments.
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20 U.S.C. § 1063
Title 20 — Education
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Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60