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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)

Award ceiling
$200,000 – $2,000,000
Closes
Jan 20, 2027
Last verified
2026-09-18

Awards $200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient for unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Jan 20, 2027.

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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) awards $200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient, open to unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Jan 20,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$61,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$2,000,000
Award floor
$200,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Jan 20, 2027
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Oct 20, 2022
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$61,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$2,000,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity types
industry
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Not confirmed

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Jan 20, 2027124 daysDeadline type Fixed date
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How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

107 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 107 of 346 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$650,000
  • Median$2,000,000
  • 75th percentile$6,750,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

5 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$61,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Jan 20, 2027.
Who is eligible to apply?
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-18
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-18

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