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Colleges With the Highest Numbers of Principal Investigators, FY 2016

Almanac 2018
August 19, 2018

In the public sector, California was the state with the most institutions in the top 25 for the number of principal investigators leading research-and-development projects, with five, while New York had the most in the private nonprofit sector, also five. In both sectors, the institution with the most principal investigators in the 2016 fiscal year was far ahead of the rest of the pack.


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In the public sector, California was the state with the most institutions in the top 25 for the number of principal investigators leading research-and-development projects, with five, while New York had the most in the private nonprofit sector, also five. In both sectors, the institution with the most principal investigators in the 2016 fiscal year was far ahead of the rest of the pack.


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Public institutions

RankInstitutionPrincipal investigators Other R&D employeesTotal R&D employees
1. U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 4,874 16,076 20,950
2. Pennsylvania State U. at University Park and Hershey Medical Centera 3,017 10,305 13,322
3. Texas A&M U. at College Station and Health Science Center 2,876 10,120 12,996
4. U. of Wisconsin at Madison 2,821 14,326 17,147
5. U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 2,724 11,379 14,103
6. Colorado State U. at Fort Collinsa 2,635 6,558 9,193
7. U. of Washington 2,458 11,914 14,372
8. U. of California at Los Angeles 2,216 9,532 11,748
9. Ohio State U. 1,964 7,368 9,332
10. U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1,858 7,530 9,388
11. U. of Pittsburgh main campus 1,856 7,193 9,049
12. U. of California at Berkeley 1,842 7,913 9,755
13. U. of California at Davis 1,806 8,917 10,723
14. U. of Floridab 1,735 8,009 9,744
15. U. of Kentucky 1,558 4,018 5,576
16. U. of California at San Diego 1,555 9,190 10,745
17. U. of South Florida 1,503 2,694 4,197
18. U. of Arizona 1,464 6,420 7,884
19. Purdue U. at West Lafayette 1,443 8,633 10,076
20. Rutgers U. at New Brunswickb 1,394 6,436 7,830
21. U. of California at Irvine 1,326 3,225 4,551
22. U. of Maryland at College Park 1,312 8,957 10,269
23. Georgia Institute of Technologya 1,263 7,240 8,503
24. U. of Colorado at Boulder 1,251 1,840 3,091
25. Indiana U. at Bloomington 1,238 6,122 7,360
Median for 393 institutions 85 362 456

Private nonprofit institutions

RankInstitutionPrincipal investigators Other R&D employeesTotal R&D employees
1. Johns Hopkins U.bc 3,089 20,302 23,391
2. Cornell U. 1,738 8,691 10,429
3. Stanford U. 1,724 7,752 9,476
4. U. of Pennsylvania 1,665 10,914 12,579
5. Duke U. 1,566 7,982 9,548
6. Emory U. 1,400 5,960 7,360
7. Washington U. in St. Louis 1,368 6,442 7,810
8. Columbia U. 1,334 7,892 9,226
9. New York U. 1,265 5,462 6,727
10. Yale U. 1,259 7,166 8,425
11. Northwestern U. 1,196 6,751 7,947
12. Harvard U. 1,131 6,442 7,573
13. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 994 8,984 9,978
14. Vanderbilt U.b 947 5,215 6,162
15. U. of Southern California 927 5,762 6,689
16. U. of Rochester 904 3,422 4,326
17. George Washington U. 892 1,905 2,797
18. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 859 2,058 2,917
19. Case Western Reserve U. 842 2,180 3,022
20. U. of Miami 752 3,077 3,829
21. Baylor College of Medicine 722 4,625 5,347
22. Boston U. 695 3,316 4,011
23. U. of Chicago 677 4,083 4,760
24. Wake Forest U. 624 1,192 1,816
25. Brown U.b 540 2,899 3,439
Median for 247 institutions 33 124 168

a The numbers of other and total R&D employees were imputed.

b The numbers of principal investigators, other R&D employees, and total R&D employees were imputed.

c Figures for Johns Hopkins University includes the Applied Physics Laboratory, an affiliated independent nonprofit research center, which had 13,116 R&D employees in the 2016 fiscal year.

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Note: Principal investigators are employees designated by their institutions to oversee research-and-development projects or programs and to be responsible for those projects’ scientific and technical direction. Co-investigators who share such responsibilities are also counted in that category. Other R&D employees include all other personnel and students paid from research-and-development accounts no matter how much they received. Missing data were imputed based on the previous year’s data and the reported data of peer institutions in the current survey cycle. More data can be found here. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.

Source: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey; Chronicle analysis

A version of this article appeared in the August 24, 2018, issue.
Read other items in this The Profession: Almanac 2018 package.
We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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