Department

Higher Education

$4.7B
total checkbook spend · FY18–present
9Fiscal years
10Programs
15+Top vendors
University of Delaware = 29% of all spend

Budget vs. actual

Appropriated budget (state budget dataset, converted from thousands) against actual checkbook payments. Differences reflect fund types, timing, and spending outside the checkbook — a lead, not a verdict.

Fiscal yearBudgetedCheckbook actualActual / budget
FY18 $237,069,500 $420,126,449 177%
FY19 $237,443,800 $436,939,953 184%
FY20 $247,080,700 $456,277,208 185%
FY21 $252,761,600 $502,934,674 199%
FY22 $256,873,000 $518,711,461 202%
FY23 $266,806,000 $539,938,960 202%
FY24 $276,531,900 $616,991,560 223%
FY25 $298,802,500 $633,809,608 212%
FY26 $315,567,700 $619,231,693 196%

Budget source: “Higher Education” in the appropriated budgets dataset. Open source dataset ↗

Money anatomy

From 14,371,805 expenditure line items — how this department's spending breaks down by fund and account.

By fund

General Fund (General)
$1.3B
General Fund (Special)
$564.3M
Delaware State University (General)
$350.3M
Federal Funds (Federal)
$294.7M
Delaware State University (Special)
$258.5M
Delaware State University (Federal)
$78.3M
Capital Projects (Capital)
$73.7M
Delaware State University (Capital)
$20.0M
Federal Funds (General)
$246K
Federal Funds (Special)
$11K

Top spending accounts

Grants
$825.7M
Salaries/Wages-Employees
$525.6M
Grants in Aid
$313.4M
Pensions/Employer'S Share
$168.5M
Health Ins/Employers' Sh
$132.3M
Other Professional Service
$97.2M
Salary Faculty F/T
$93.8M
Transfer Out
$92.6M
Casual & Seasonal Sals
$80.1M
Building/Grounds Repair
$66.2M
Emplyr Sh/Social Security
$47.0M
Construction/Building Services
$43.7M

Source: checkbook expenditure details. Open source dataset ↗

Programs

ProgramTotalVendorsYears
University of Delaware $1,352,312,581 1 FY18–FY26
Del State Univ-Operations $957,383,158 451 FY18–FY26
Dtcc - Office of the President $741,517,164 903 FY18–FY26
Owens Campus $468,835,222 1,078 FY18–FY26
Dtcc - Stanton Campus $389,675,817 980 FY18–FY26
Wilmington Campus $335,857,113 708 FY18–FY26
Dtcc - Terry Campus $331,281,693 921 FY18–FY26
Sponsored Prog & Research $145,525,007 64 FY18–FY26
Del Geological Survey $19,988,446 1 FY18–FY26
Divme $2,585,365 1 FY18–FY24

Spending by fiscal year

Fiscal yearTotalPaymentsVendors
FY18 $420,126,449 89,2841,245
FY19 $436,939,953 86,3161,164
FY20 $456,277,208 82,2931,035
FY21 $502,934,674 67,974842
FY22 $518,711,461 70,982883
FY23 $539,938,960 72,916961
FY24 $616,991,560 74,704979
FY25 $633,809,608 73,3301,016
FY26 $619,231,693 72,590945