At the US university where I worked the indirect rate for federal grants was the same across the entire university, and I think it was slightly more than the 53

At the US university where I worked the indirect rate for federal grants was the same across the entire university, and I think it was slightly more than the 53% OP pays. I don't know where the number came from. Most of our industrial grants had language in the contract that said they would pay whatever rate the government was paying.