Higher education’s hunger for conducting research is typically measured in terms of grant dollars. Another way to look at the sector’s deep investment in the research enterprise is by looking at how much space it develops and dedicates to this purpose. Recently released data from the National Science Foundation show that research space at colleges and universities increased by more than 30 million square feet over a decade.
According to the NSF’s biennial survey, academic institutions had 236.1 million square feet of science and engineering research space in the 2021 fiscal year, the most recent data available, up from 202.2 million square feet in the 2011 fiscal year. Biological and biomedical sciences largely fueled that growth.
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