The DOE claims the University has failed to accurately and fully disclose the origins of funding originating from foreign institutions.

"Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university's foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosures," the DOE said in a news release.

The investigation comes after authorities accused a Chinese scientist and his girlfriend working in the school's lab of smuggling a toxic fungus into the U.S.