Louisiana State sports programs took in $145.4 million in 2018

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College athletics grossed $145.4 million in 2018, making it the 15th-highest-grossing college sports program in the United States that year, according to a Center Square analysis of the latest federal data.

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education compiles athletics data annually from thousands of schools receiving federal financial aid. The numbers are available at the department’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis website.

Altogether, the top 100 athletic programs, consisting of more than 2 million athletes, reported $9.3 billion in revenue in 2018.

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Top 100 College Athletics Programs by Revenue

Rank	School	State	Total Sports Revenue
1	The University of Texas at Austin	TX	$210,370,940
2	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	$203,514,189
3	The University of Alabama	AL	$181,470,156
4	Florida State University	FL	$177,512,950
5	University of Georgia	GA	$176,699,894
6	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	OK	$175,325,500
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$173,505,842
8	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	PA	$165,373,212
9	University of Kansas	KS	$164,738,351
10	University of Florida	FL	$157,240,476
11	Texas A&M University-College Station	TX	$152,971,142
12	University of Notre Dame	IN	$149,508,530
13	Auburn University	AL	$147,620,572
14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$146,385,704
15	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	LA	$145,422,795
16	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$142,686,084
17	University of Louisville	KY	$140,155,907
18	University of South Carolina-Columbia	SC	$140,084,150
19	Stanford University	CA	$137,965,999
20	University of Iowa	IA	$136,643,027
21	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$136,624,256
22	University of Arkansas	AR	$132,545,645
23	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	$130,960,560
24	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	WA	$130,919,331
25	University of Kentucky	KY	$125,462,485
26	Arizona State University-Tempe	AZ	$122,327,384
27	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	$121,217,287
28	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	$120,619,042
29	University of Southern California	CA	$116,948,216
30	Texas Christian University	TX	$115,240,541
31	Michigan State University	MI	$112,942,827
32	Clemson University	SC	$111,852,105
33	Duke University	NC	$108,585,925
34	University of Virginia-Main Campus	VA	$105,486,203
35	University of Oregon	OR	$103,456,686
36	Purdue University-Main Campus	IN	$103,092,204
37	University of Mississippi	MS	$99,157,535
38	West Virginia University	WV	$98,851,233
39	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	$98,849,409
40	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	$98,294,571
41	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	IL	$97,955,075
42	Baylor University	TX	$95,214,007
43	University of Miami	FL	$94,723,980
44	Kansas State University	KS	$94,082,668
45	Syracuse University	NY	$93,792,187
46	Mississippi State University	MS	$93,752,613
47	University of Missouri-Columbia	MO	$93,744,322
48	University of Arizona	AZ	$92,693,610
49	Northwestern University	IL	$92,274,339
50	University of California-Berkeley	CA	$90,695,900
51	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	PA	$89,926,268
52	University of Colorado Boulder	CO	$89,822,527
53	Oregon State University	OR	$88,600,331
54	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	NC	$87,929,032
55	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	VA	$86,334,972
56	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus	OK	$84,959,398
57	University of Utah	UT	$82,467,618
58	Vanderbilt University	TN	$80,093,541
59	Brigham Young University-Provo	UT	$79,644,919
60	Texas Tech University	TX	$79,106,849
61	University of Connecticut	CT	$78,985,762
62	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	$78,213,389
63	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	NJ	$78,205,862
64	Boston College	MA	$77,850,143
65	Washington State University	WA	$73,466,115
66	Iowa State University	IA	$71,856,869
67	Wake Forest University	NC	$70,856,132
68	Southern Methodist University	TX	$64,607,467
69	University of Central Florida	FL	$60,069,492
70	Temple University	PA	$55,933,640
71	University of Memphis	TN	$55,464,035
72	University of Houston	TX	$55,344,923
73	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	CO	$55,228,814
74	San Diego State University	CA	$54,893,977
75	University of South Florida-Main Campus	FL	$51,710,233
76	California State University-Fresno	CA	$49,472,907
77	Villanova University	PA	$48,977,278
78	Tulane University of Louisiana	LA	$48,417,254
79	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	OH	$48,384,869
80	James Madison University	VA	$45,938,582
81	Yale University	CT	$45,026,668
82	East Carolina University	NC	$43,689,985
83	University of Hawaii at Manoa	HI	$42,987,651
84	Rice University	TX	$42,118,864
85	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$41,859,319
86	University of Pennsylvania	PA	$41,520,178
87	University of Nevada-Reno	NV	$41,381,120
88	Providence College	RI	$41,223,914
89	Old Dominion University	VA	$40,827,956
90	University of Tulsa	OK	$40,796,150
91	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	NM	$40,693,911
92	Liberty University	VA	$40,014,357
93	Georgetown University	DC	$39,908,405
94	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	MA	$38,693,652
95	University of Wyoming	WY	$38,561,845
96	Florida International University	FL	$38,240,735
97	University of North Texas	TX	$38,208,169
98	Boise State University	ID	$38,060,709
99	University of Denver	CO	$37,769,806
100	Miami University-Oxford	OH	$37,127,175

Source: U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education

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