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 aerospace and space science research, science 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 that have all three designations.

Participating Institutions

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