FY2023 MSI-Related Revenue Data Set
The NTRN Project Data Sets include a supplementary data set on funding for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Developed in partnership with the Urban Institute, the data set was created to support the Institute’s report on MSIs. It provides information on federal spending on MSI-related programs during the 2023 fiscal year.
The data are drawn from the USA Spending website, which details how government funds are allocated. The site’s Spending Explorer tool allows users to retrieve spending data for specific government agencies and fiscal years. For this data set, spending information for the following higher education programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education was collected from the website.
Strengthening Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU)
Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI)
Strengthening Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCU)
Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions (HBGI)
Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions STEM and Articulation Programs
Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA)
Strengthening Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI)
Strengthening Historically Black Masters Programs (HBGI)
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement (MSEIP)
Strengthening Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI)
Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH)
Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI)
Hawkins Centers of Excellence
Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical InstitutionsI
Allocating Funding reported at the administrative office level
The USA Spending website lists the amount allocated to each higher education institution for each of these programs. In some cases, however, funding is reported in aggregate rather than at the individual institutional level. This typically occurs for state higher education systems or community college districts, where funding is reported collectively for multiple Title IV institutions. For MSI-related programs, aggregated funding cannot simply be distributed proportionally across all member institutions. Unlike general funding streams that may support an entire system, MSI program funds are intended only for certain institutions. As a result, funding reported for the administrative office of the State University of New York (SUNY), for example, should not be divided among all 59 Title IV institutions in the system. Instead, those dollars should be assigned only to the SUNY institutions that are designated as recipients.
To support this targeted allocation process, researchers at the Urban Institute created a list of eligible MSI institutions using the U.S. Department of Education's Eligibility Matrices for the Title III and Title V programs. They then identified institutions receiving grants through specific MSI programs and developed separate recipient lists for HBCU/HBGI, HSI, TCCU, AANAPISI, NASNTI, ANNH, and PBI programs. I used these lists to allocate MSI funding reported at the administrative office level to the appropriate Title IV institutions. Funding was assigned only to institutions that were both associated with the administrative office and identified as grant recipients under the relevant MSI program. Additional details about this process can be found in the Data and Methods section of the Urban Institute report.