Space Grant Colleges

The U.S. Congress established the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in 1988. Universities in all fifty states, Washington, D.C, and Puerto Rico participate in the program. These universities administer the research, education, and public service projects that are funded through the program.

Space Grant Colleges are not to be confused with Land Grant Colleges (a program instituted in 1862) or Sea Grant Colleges (instituted in 1966). There are six universities/colleges which actually have all three designations.

Participating Institutions

• University of Alabama-Huntsville
• University of Alaska-Fairbanks
• University of Arizona
• University of Arkansas-Little Rock
• University of California-San Diego
• University of Colorado-Boulder
• University of Hartford
• University of Delaware
• American University
• University of Central Florida
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• University of Hawaii-Manoa
• University of Idaho
• University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
• Purdue University
• Iowa State University
• University of Kansas
• Western Kentucky University
• Louisiana State University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Mississippi
• University of Missouri-Rolla
• Montana State University
• University of Nebraska-Omaha
• Maine Space Grant Consortium
  • University of Maine
  • University of New England
  • University of Southern Maine
• University and Community College System of Nevada
• University of New Hampshire
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• New Mexico State University
• Cornell University
• North Carolina State University
• University of North Dakota
• Ohio Aerospace Institute
• University of Oklahoma
• Oregon State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• University of Puerto Rico
• Brown University
• University of Utah
• Utah State University
• College of Charleston
• South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• Vanderbilt University
• University of Texas-Austin
• University of Vermont
• Virginia Space Grant Consortium
  • College of William and Mary
  • Hampton University
  • Old Dominion University
  • University of Virginia
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• University of Washington
• West Virginia University
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• University of Wyoming