The FY2027 President's Budget requests $405.8M for Strengthening HBCUs (HEA III-B, section 323), within Education's Higher Education account. That is down 52% on the FY2025 figure of $838.9M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $838.9M |
| FY2027 | request | $405.8M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Education discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Education's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Makes formula-based development grants to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities strengthen their academic programs, infrastructure, management, and financial stability.
Extracted from Higher Education, p. 125. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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