Top 50 Universities/Very High Research Activity*
(ranked in order of FY 2008 R&D
expenditures) |
| |
| Rank |
Academic Institution |
FY 2008** |
|
1 |
Johns
Hopkins University |
$1,680,927 |
|
|
2 |
University of
Wisconsin-Madison |
881,777 |
|
|
3 |
University of
Michigan, all campuses |
876,390 |
|
|
4 |
University of
California-Los Angeles |
871,478 |
|
|
5 |
University of
California - San Diego |
842,027 |
|
|
6 |
Duke University |
766,906 |
|
|
7 |
University of
Washington |
765,135 |
|
|
8 |
University of
Pennsylvania |
708,244 |
|
|
9 |
The Ohio
State University, all campuses |
702,592 |
|
|
10 |
Pennsylvania State
University, all campuses |
701,130 |
|
|
11 |
Stanford
University |
688,225 |
|
|
12 |
University of
Minnesota, all campuses |
682,662 |
|
|
13 |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
659,626 |
|
|
14 |
Cornell
University, all campuses |
653,996 |
|
|
15 |
University of
California - Davis |
642,519 |
|
|
16 |
University of
Pittsburgh, all campuses |
595,627 |
|
|
17 |
University of
California - Berkeley |
591,770 |
|
|
18 |
University of
Florida |
584,170 |
|
|
19 |
Texas A & M
University, all campuses |
582,365 |
|
|
20 |
Washington
University in St. Louis |
563,967 |
|
|
21 |
Columbia
University in the City of New Yor |
548,704 |
|
|
22 |
The
University of Arizona |
545,869 |
|
|
23 |
University of
Colorado, all campuses |
535,556 |
|
|
24 |
The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
525,843 |
|
|
25 |
Georgia Institute
of Technology, all campuses |
522,136 |
|
|
26 |
University of Southern
California |
519,543 |
|
|
27 |
University Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign |
501,279 |
|
|
28 |
The University of
Texas at Austin |
493,294 |
|
|
29 |
Yale University |
487,285 |
|
|
30 |
Northwestern
University |
483,881 |
|
|
31 |
Harvard
University |
453,028 |
|
|
32 |
Emory
University |
441,222 |
|
|
33 |
Purdue University,
all campuses |
429,988 |
|
|
34 |
Vanderbilt
University |
422,622 |
|
|
35 |
Case Western
Reserve University |
416,077 |
|
|
36 |
Indiana
University, all campuses |
411,939 |
|
|
37 |
The University of
Alabama at Birmingham |
404,615 |
|
|
38 |
University of
Maryland, College Park |
395,037 |
|
|
39 |
Louisiana State
University, all campuses |
391,234 |
|
|
40 |
University of
Rochester |
375,218 |
|
|
41 |
Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University |
373,281 |
|
|
42 |
North Carolina
State University |
366,137 |
|
|
43 |
University
of Chicago |
357,278 |
|
|
44 |
Michigan State
University |
356,767 |
|
|
45 |
The University of
Georgia |
350,299 |
|
|
46 |
University of
Nebraska, all campuses |
349,220 |
|
|
47 |
University of Cincinnati,
all campuses |
344,046 |
|
|
48 |
SUNY Buffalo,
all campuses |
338,300 |
|
|
49 |
University of
Kentucky, all campuses |
336,669 |
|
|
50 |
University of
Illinois-Chicago |
335,138 |
|
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*Carnegie Classification (2005): "RU/VH" (Research Universities/Very High Research Activity; please note that some institutions included among the top 50 by total R&D expenditures elsewhere on this site are not included in the list above because of their Carnegie Classification as Special Focus/Medical institutions.
** Dollars in thousands
(1) Johns Hopkins University includes
the Applied Physics Laboratory, with $845,396 million in total R&D
expenditures in FY2008.
Source: National Science Foundation/Division of
Science Resources Statistics, Survey of R&D Expenditures at
Universities and Colleges, FY2008; The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2005) | | |
