The Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) administers over 60 programs that address critical national needs and support our mission of increasing access to quality postsecondary education.

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Institutional Service

• Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education

  • Comprehensive Program
  • Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success
  • Off-Campus Community Service
  • Pilot Program for Course Material Rental
  • Training for Realtime Writers
  • Congressionally-directed Grants
  • Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program

• Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
• American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities
• Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions
• B. J. Stupak Olympic Scholarships
• Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions, including STEM and Articulation
• Historically Black College and University Capital Financing
• Master's Degree Programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Master's Degree Programs at Predominantly Black Institutions
• Minority Science and Engineering Improvement
• Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions
• Predominantly Black Institutions - Competitive Grants
• Predominantly Black Institutions - Formula Grants
• Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans
• Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities, (Title III, Part B)
• Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions, (Title III, Part B)
• Strengthening Institutions

International and Foreign Language Education

• American Overseas Research Centers
• Business and International Education
• Centers for International Business Education
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
• Fulbright-Hays Training Grants - Seminars Abroad - Bilateral Projects
• Fulbright-Hays Training Grants - Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
• Fulbright-Hays Training Grants - Faculty Research Abroad
• Fulbright-Hays Training Grants - Group Projects Abroad
• Institute for International Public Policy
• International Research and Studies
• Language Resource Centers
• National Resource Centers
• Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access
• Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program
• European Union-United States Atlantis Program
• Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education
• United States-Russia Program: Improving Research and Educational Activities in Higher Education
• U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program

State Service

• College Access Challenge Grant Program
• Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education
• Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program
• Teachers for a Competitive Tomorrow
• Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants for States, Partnerships, and Recruitment
• Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
• Transition Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Coordinating Center

Student Service

• TRIO Programs

  • Educational Opportunity Centers
  • Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
  • Student Support Services
  • Talent Search
  • Training Program for Federal TRIO Staff
  • Upward Bound
  • Upward Bound Math/Science
  • Veterans Upward Bound

• Child Care Access Means Parents in School
• Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program
• Erma Byrd Scholarship Program
• Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP)
• Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowships

Other Programs

• Howard University
• SAFRA Act Payments to FFEL Loans Servicers for Retaining Jobs in the United States

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