Top 50 Universities/Very High Research Activity*
(ranked in order of FY 2006 R&D
expenditures) |
| |
| Rank |
Academic Institution |
FY 2006** |
|
1 |
Johns
Hopkins University |
$1,499,977 |
|
|
2 |
University of
Wisconsin-Madison |
831,895 |
|
|
3 |
University of
California-Los Angeles |
811,493 |
|
|
4 |
University of
Michigan, all campuses |
800,488 |
|
|
5 |
University of
Washington |
778,148 |
|
|
6 |
University of
California - San Diego |
754,766 |
|
|
7 |
Stanford
University |
679,196 |
|
|
8 |
University of
Pennsylvania |
676,052 |
|
|
9 |
Duke University |
657,080 |
|
|
10 |
The Ohio
State University, all campuses |
652,329 |
|
|
11 |
Cornell
University, all campuses |
648,802 |
|
|
12 |
Pennsylvania State
University, all campuses |
644,182 |
|
|
13 |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
600,748 |
|
|
14 |
University of
Minnesota, all campuses |
594,877 |
|
|
15 |
University of
California - Davis |
573,002 |
|
|
16 |
University of
Florida |
565,491 |
|
|
17 |
Washington
University in St. Louis |
547,674 |
|
|
18 |
University of
California - Berkeley |
546,035 |
|
|
19 |
The
University of Arizona |
535,847 |
|
|
20 |
University of
Pittsburgh, all campuses |
530,162 |
|
|
21 |
Columbia
University in the City of New Yor |
529,945 |
|
|
22 |
University of
Colorado, all campuses |
512,794 |
|
|
23 |
Texas A & M
University, all campuses |
492,955 |
|
|
24 |
University Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign |
476,198 |
|
|
25 |
Yale University |
460,075 |
|
|
26 |
Harvard
University |
453,156 |
|
|
27 |
University of Southern
California |
450,173 |
|
|
28 |
The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
443,790 |
|
|
29 |
Georgia Institute
of Technology, all campuses |
440,898 |
|
|
30 |
The University of
Texas at Austin |
431,398 |
|
|
31 |
Northwestern
University |
419,985 |
|
|
32 |
Vanderbilt
University |
376,893 |
|
|
33 |
Purdue University,
all campuses |
372,958 |
|
|
34 |
Case Western
Reserve University |
369,264 |
|
|
35 |
University of
Rochester |
366,658 |
|
|
36 |
Michigan State
University |
358,097 |
|
|
37 |
Indiana
University, all campuses |
355,004 |
|
|
38 |
University of
Maryland, College Park |
354,244 |
|
|
39 |
The University of
Iowa |
346,357 |
|
|
40 |
Emory
University |
345,989 |
|
|
41 |
Louisiana State
University, all campuses |
343,775 |
|
|
42 |
University of
Nebraska, all campuses |
333,243 |
|
|
43 |
University of
Illinois-Chicago |
332,176 |
|
|
44 |
The University of
Alabama at Birmingham |
331,436 |
|
|
45 |
North Carolina
State University |
330,936 |
|
|
46 |
University of
Kentucky, all campuses |
323,958 |
|
|
47 |
The University of
Georgia |
323,843 |
|
|
48 |
Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University |
321,722 |
|
|
49 |
Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, all campuses |
308,204 |
|
|
50 |
University
of Chicago |
305,301 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
*2005 Carnegie Classification: "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 $709 million in total R&D
expenditures.
Source: National Science Foundation/Division of
Science Resources Statistics, Survey of R&D Expenditures at
Universities and Colleges, FY2006; The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2005) | | |
