A Key Research Yardstick: the Top 100 Institutions in Federal Dollars for Science, 2009

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Many colleges aspire to break into this exclusive cadre, which in fiscal-year 2009 accounted for 81 percent of all such spending by academic institutions.

Federally financed research-and-development expenditures for science and engineering, by institution

Rank	Institution	Expenditures
1	Johns Hopkins U.*	$1,587,547,000
2	U. of Michigan (all campuses)	$636,216,000
3	U. of Washington	$619,353,000
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$532,618,000
5	U. of California at San Diego	$511,428,000

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HOME: ▶ Almanac 2011	SECTIONS: ▶ Finance	▶ The Profession	▶ Student Demographics
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Many colleges aspire to break into this exclusive cadre, which in fiscal-year 2009 accounted for 81 percent of all such spending by academic institutions.

Federally financed research-and-development expenditures for science and engineering, by institution

Rank	Institution	Expenditures
1	Johns Hopkins U.*	$1,587,547,000
2	U. of Michigan (all campuses)	$636,216,000
3	U. of Washington	$619,353,000
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$532,618,000
5	U. of California at San Diego	$511,428,000
6	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	$507,898,000
7	U. of Colorado (all campuses)	$500,123,000
8	U. of Pennsylvania	$499,498,000
9	U. of California at San Francisco	$483,667,000
10	Columbia U.	$483,111,000
11	Stanford U.	$477,507,000
12	U. of California at Los Angeles	$467,505,000
13	U. of Pittsburgh (all campuses)	$463,192,000
14	Pennsylvania State U. (all campuses)	$439,193,000
15	Duke U.	$438,767,000
16	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$431,837,000
17	Washington U. in St. Louis	$414,045,000
18	U. of Minnesota (all campuses)	$390,602,000
19	Harvard U.	$385,704,000
20	Yale U.	$378,914,000
21	U. of Southern California	$375,024,000
22	Cornell U. (all campuses)	$363,144,000
23	Ohio State U. (all campuses)	$339,820,000
24	Vanderbilt U.	$336,405,000
25	Georgia Institute of Technology (all campuses)	$322,452,000
26	Case Western Reserve U.	$313,044,000
27	U. of Texas at Austin	$309,125,000
28	California Institute of Technology	$305,682,000
29	U. of Chicago	$301,159,000
30	Northwestern U.	$300,619,000
31	U. of Alabama at Birmingham	$300,130,000
32	U. of Rochester	$295,963,000
33	U. of California at Davis	$295,924,000
34	Emory U.	$295,831,000
35	Scripps Research Institute	$288,388,000
36	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$288,013,000
37	U. of Arizona	$287,889,000
38	Baylor College of Medicine	$267,130,000
39	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	$264,914,000
40	U. of California at Berkeley	$262,069,000
41	Texas A&M U.	$261,491,000
42	Boston U.	$255,178,000
43	U. of Iowa	$252,336,000
44	U. of Maryland at College Park	$246,985,000
45	Oregon Health & Science U.	$233,774,000
46	U. of Florida	$232,737,000
47	U. of Cincinnati (all campuses)	$229,324,000
48	U. of Virginia (all campuses)	$218,499,000
49	Colorado State U.	$211,890,000
50	U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr. Dallas	$207,216,000
51	U. of Hawaii-Manoa	$203,453,000
52	New York U.	$202,535,000
53	Indiana U. (all campuses)	$197,558,000
54	U. of Illinois at Chicago	$196,702,000
55	U. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr.	$194,633,000
56	U. of Utah	$192,354,000
57	U. of South Florida	$190,949,000
58	U. of California at Irvine	$177,098,000
59	Purdue U. (all campuses)	$175,302,000
60	U. of Miami	$172,000,000
61	Carnegie Mellon U.	$170,260,000
62	U. of Maryland at Baltimore	$169,081,000
63	Michigan State U.	$164,198,000
64	Rutgers U. (all campuses)	$161,877,000
65	Louisiana State U. (all campuses)	$157,645,000
66	U. of Tennessee (all campuses)	$156,043,000
67	U. at Buffalo (all campuses)	$152,146,000
68	U. of Nebraska (all campuses)	$148,602,000
69	Virginia Tech	$148,411,000
70	U. of Massachusetts at Worcester	$145,834,000
71	U. of Kentucky (all campuses)	$145,483,000
72	Wake Forest U.	$144,454,000
73	Yeshiva U.	$137,108,000
74	North Carolina State U.	$135,318,000
75	U. of Texas Health Science Ctr. at Houston	$135,087,000
76	Arizona State U.	$134,598,000
77	Dartmouth College	$134,113,000
78	U. of New Mexico (main campus)	$133,334,000
79	U. of Texas Health Science Ctr. at San Antonio	$129,399,000
80	Princeton U.	$128,876,000
81	U. of Kansas (all campuses)	$127,449,000
82	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$127,378,000
83	U. of Texas Medical Branch	$126,703,000
84	Uniformed Services U. of the Health Sciences	$124,314,000
85	U. of Connecticut (all campuses)	$120,668,000
86	Georgetown U.	$119,925,000
87	U. of Missouri at Columbia	$118,998,000
88	Oregon State U.	$118,252,000
89	Medical College of Wisconsin	$117,842,000
90	Florida State U.	$117,294,000
91	Wayne State U.	$116,682,000
92	U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey	$115,770,000
93	U. of California at Santa Barbara	$113,837,000
94	Medical U. of South Carolina	$113,789,000
95	Tulane U.	$109,269,000
96	U. of South Carolina (all campuses)	$107,504,000
97	State U. of New York at Stony Brook (all campuses)	$107,396,000
98	U. of Georgia	$106,932,000
99	U. of Alaska at Fairbanks (all campuses)	$105,885,000
100	Mississippi State U.	$102,903,000

*Includes $920,678,000 for the Applied Physics Laboratory. Source: National Science Foundation