Title 20 › Chapter 28— HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter III— INSTITUTIONAL AID › Part B— Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities › § 1063b
The Secretary will give program grants, when money is available, to the named postgraduate institutions that are helping expand graduate or professional education in math, engineering, the physical or natural sciences, medicine, dentistry, veterinary, or law for Black Americans. Grants can be up to 5 years. Money that is obligated during that 5-year grant may be spent over a 10-year period starting on the first day of the grant. No institution gets more than one grant in a fiscal year. An institution that gets other specified federal awards in the same fiscal year cannot get a grant under this part. Grants larger than $1,000,000 must be matched with non‑Federal money equal to 50 percent of the project cost, except the first $1,000,000 of an award need not be matched. If some institutions fail to match, leftover funds are shared pro rata among those that did match. Grants may pay for equipment, buildings and renovations, library materials, scholarships and fellowships for needy graduate and professional students, development and endowment work, financial and funds-management systems, nearby property needed for campus projects, student financial-literacy education, up to 2 percent for approved implementation services, tutoring and counseling, and other approved activities that fit the program’s goals. Eligible schools include Morehouse School of Medicine; Meharry Medical School; Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; Clark-Atlanta University; Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine; Xavier University School of Pharmacy; Southern University School of Law; Texas Southern University School of Law and School of Pharmacy; Florida A&M University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; North Carolina Central University School of Law; Morgan State University; Hampton University; Alabama A&M; North Carolina A&T State University; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Jackson State University; Norfolk State University; Tennessee State University; Alabama State University; Prairie View A&M University; Delaware State University; Langston University; Bowie State University; and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. A “qualified graduate program” is any graduate or professional program in law or in underrepresented scientific fields that has enrolled students when applying; up to 10 percent of a grant may be used to start a new qualified program. Applications must show how funds will improve graduate opportunities for Black and low‑income students and promote financial independence, and requests over $1,000,000 must include the required matching assurances. Funding is distributed by year: the first $56,900,000 (or less, if that is all appropriated) goes to institutions listed A–R; amounts above $56,900,000 but not over $62,900,000 go to institutions S–X; amounts above $62,900,000 are shared among all listed institutions using a formula based on matching ability, prior enrollments, average cost per student, recent degrees awarded, and the programs’ share of African American graduates. Institutions that received a grant in fiscal year 2008 cannot get less than their 2008 amount in later years unless overall appropriations are too small or the institution cannot provide required matching funds.
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20 U.S.C. § 1063b
Title 20 — Education
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Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60