Qatar has established itself as the main foreign funder of United States universities since 1986, surpassing China, in a context of strong growth in international contributions, which show a growing foreign interference in the academic environment to promote a leftist and anti-American agenda
.According to a study by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), foreign donors have provided as much money in the last four years as in the previous four decades.
Between 2021 and 2024, American universities received nearly 29 billion dollars in external funding, a figure that more than doubles the total of the previous period and represents approximately half of the 57.97 billion dollars accumulated since the federal government began recording this data in 1986.
In this scenario, Qatar tops the historical ranking of foreign funding with 6.3 billion dollars, consolidating above China,
which accumulates 5.6 billion.The report highlights that both countries have significantly increased their contributions in recent years: between 2021 and 2024 alone, Qatar allocated more than 2 billion dollars, while China reached 2.3 billion in the same period.
According to Joel Finkelstein, co-founder of the NCRI, the situation reached a critical point in recent years. “During the Biden era, the storm broke out,”
