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[bochierd]

I'm way out of my element on this topic.  I'm looking for information or places to find information on the percentage of federal money that makes up university budgets in the US.  Naturally, I'm aware that this is of course going to differ state to state and even institution to institution.  But, given that, and not looking at every single budget in my state system, where can I find more general information?

Our committee got into a silly debate and I'm just looking for additional information.

[adminanon]

You might want to try the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its various reports.

This table (link below) is very general, from the Digest of Education Statistics 2008, but between that and NCES' more specific IPEDS data you--or your institutional research office if you have one--might be able to get something applicable to your situation.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08_373.asp

[sibyl]

There are several kinds of federal support for universities: direct support through Title III and similar grants for particular kinds of institutions (tribal institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions, etc.), indirect support through Title IV grants (i.e. financial aid to students) and research subventions.  So it's not an easy question to answer.  It's one thing to find out the total amounts expended in each annual federal budget, but I've never seen a single figure for all expenditures of all colleges and universities.

I'd recommend looking at institution-specific data, which are easy to find at the IPEDS Data Center.  Identify a series of peer institutions, then pull the revenue information from their financial reports and financial aid data from that report.  These rates are going to vary widely -- a local HBCU may receive Title III funds, while a local research university receives many more thousands in federal research funding -- but if you keep to a group of similar institutions you can get a good handle on the problem. 

And I'll second the motion to get help from your IR office; they live for this stuff.

[ucprof]

The UC data can be found online at

http://budget.ucop.edu/pubs.html

If you bother to read the docs you can find pie charts with a breakdown by different funding sources.

[littlefred]

I waded through a bunch of of this stuff once when I wanted information on a for-profit....

I found out I really didn't want to know.

The department of Ed is now investigating them for fraud..... I really didn't need to know.

But it is on the 'net if you want to find it.