The 2018 compromise spending bill for higher education, by the numbers

Congress's Budget for Higher Ed, by the Numbers

Most student aid programs would see increases approaching 15 percent, science agencies more modest but still significant boosts.

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Congressional negotiators late Wednesday reached an agreement on a bill to fund the government through the rest of the 2018 fiscal year, which began in October.

In general the bill increases spending for most programs important to higher education, in many cases significantly so.

The table below shows rounded figures for the amounts appropriated by Congress in 2017, proposed by the Trump administration and agreed upon in this week's compromise.

Both houses must pass the bill by Friday to avoid another government shutdown.

	2017 Appropriation (millions)	2018 Proposed (millions)	2018 Negotiated (millions)	% Change, 2017 to 2018
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Financial Aid Programs
Maximum Pell Grant (not in millions)	$5,920	$5,920	$6,095	3%
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants	733	0	840	14.6%
Federal Work-Study	990	500	1,130	14.2%
Institutional Aid
Strengthening Institutions	87	0	99	14.5%
Strengthening Tribal Colleges	28	28	32	16.4%
Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions	14	14	16	15.9%
Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)	245	244	280	14.3%
Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions	63	63	72	13.9%
Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions	10	10	11	11.1%
Strengthening Asian-American and Native American/Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions	3	3	4	21.2%
Strengthening Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions	3	3	4	21.2%
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement	10	10	11	14.6%
Aid for Hispanic-Serving Institutions	108	108	123	14.3%
Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans	10	10	11	14.6%
Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Institutions	8	8	9	8.4%
National Technical Institute for the Deaf	70	70	73	4.4%
Gallaudet University	121	121	128	5.8%
Howard U	222	222	233	5%
HBCU Capital Financing	20	20	30	47.1%
Student Assistance
TRIO Programs	950	808	1,010	6.3%
GEAR UP	340	219	350	2.9%
Special Programs for Migrant Students	45	45	45	1.1%
Child Care Access	15	0	50	231.1%
Program for Students With Intellectual Disabilities	12	12	12	1.7%
Career-Technical/Adult Education
Perkins State Grants	1,118	949	1,193	6.7%
Adult Education	582	486	617	6%
Graduate Education
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need	28	6	23	-17.9%
Other Areas
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education	0	0	6,000	n/a
International Education and Foreign Language Studies	72	0	72	0%
Teacher Quality Partnerships	43	0	43	-0.2%
Office for Civil Rights	109	107	117	7.3%
Inspector General	59	61	61	3.2%
Institute of Education Sciences
Research, Development and Dissemination	188	195	193	2.7%
Statistics	110	112	110	0%
Statewide Data Systems	32	34	32	0%
LABOR DEPARTMENT
Adult Employment and Training	815	490	846	3.8%
Dislocated Workers Training	1,242	732	1,262	1.6%
Apprenticeship Grants	95	90	145	52.6%
STATE DEPARTMENT
Educational and Cultural Exchanges	590	285	646	9.5%
OTHER AGENCIES
National Endowment for the Humanities	150	42	153	2.1%
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	11	7	12	9.1%
Institute for Museum and Library Sciences	231	23	240	3.9%
AmeriCorps	386	2	412	6.7%
Department of Defense Basic Research	2,077	2,240	2,343	12.8%
National Institutes of Health	33,260	25,833	36,161	8.7%
Health Workforce Training	839	383	1,061	26.5%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science	5,765	5,712	6,222	7.9%
Department of Energy Science	5,392	4,473	6,260	16.1%
National Science Foundation	7,472	6,653	7,767	3.9%
--Research	6,034	5,362	6,334	5%
Education	880	761	902	2.5%
Facilities	209	183	183	-12.4%
Commerce Department National Institute of Standards and Technology	688	600	725	5.4%
Agriculture Department Research	1,362	1,253	1,408	3.4%