The top 40 institutions spent more than half of what all institutions spent on research and development with support from the National Science Foundation in the 2016 fiscal year. The field with the highest spending was engineering, followed by physical sciences. The top institution in this ranking, though, devoted the largest share of its spending to computer and information sciences, and the second on the list devoted its largest share to geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences.
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| 1. | U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | $127,024 | $55,802 | $3,459 | $9,222 | $2,844 | $18,663 | $2,206 | $1,925 | $4 | $28,932 | $3,967 |
| 2. | U. of Washington | $113,679 | $7,625 | $32,948 | $10,055 | $3,018 | $14,972 | $674 | $3,104 | $0 | $27,258 | $14,025 |
| 3. | Cornell U. | $109,545 | $8,841 | $3,059 | $24,699 | $2,046 | $40,198 | $694 | $2,419 | $0 | $25,926 | $1,663 |
| 4. | Texas A&M U. at College Station and Health Science Center | $100,344 | $3,326 | $63,805 | $4,515 | $4,071 | $6,013 | $191 | $816 | $402 | $14,486 | $2,719 |
| 5. | Columbia U. | $97,190 | $8,060 | $44,805 | $5,040 | $2,090 | $18,023 | $516 | $1,415 | $0 | $12,652 | $4,589 |
| 6. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $97,033 | $15,167 | $11,965 | $7,092 | $5,747 | $18,292 | $201 | $1,273 | $1,819 | $34,350 | $1,127 |
| 7. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $92,565 | $0 | $58,627 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $33,938 | $0 |
| 8. | California Institute of Technology | $89,490 | $0 | $9,942 | $2,669 | $4,399 | $66,933 | $46 | $0 | $0 | $4,519 | $982 |
| 9. | U. of Wisconsin at Madison | $89,389 | $12,111 | $12,694 | $13,863 | $3,951 | $19,932 | $1,049 | $1,797 | $1,679 | $14,384 | $7,929 |
| 10. | U. of California at San Diego | $84,550 | $9,818 | $24,585 | $5,917 | $2,567 | $10,743 | $5,166 | $1,348 | $142 | $23,139 | $1,125 |
| 11. | Stanford U. | $83,761 | $4,139 | $4,116 | $5,295 | $4,170 | $17,259 | $1,112 | $3,142 | $0 | $22,642 | $21,886 |
| 12. | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | $83,587 | $660 | $2,694 | $8,635 | $4,739 | $11,559 | $1,831 | $11,139 | $0 | $38,898 | $3,432 |
| 13. | U. of Colorado at Boulder | $79,795 | $4,370 | $21,296 | $3,285 | $1,242 | $15,574 | $1,239 | $2,871 | $9,459 | $17,119 | $3,340 |
| 14. | U. of Texas at Austin | $78,961 | $27,080 | $7,487 | $6,380 | $3,071 | $6,155 | $915 | $2,453 | $364 | $23,267 | $1,789 |
| 15. | U. of California at Berkeley | $75,232 | $157 | $2,932 | $9,462 | $4,816 | $15,415 | $1,182 | $1,756 | $8,273 | $28,647 | $2,592 |
| 16. | U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities | $73,547 | $8,105 | $6,246 | $11,644 | $5,268 | $6,416 | $572 | $6,700 | $0 | $26,161 | $2,435 |
| 17. | Carnegie Mellon U. | $73,066 | $39,176 | $515 | $986 | $3,914 | $3,565 | $1,002 | $2,014 | $3,056 | $18,838 | $0 |
| 18. | Michigan State U. | $72,873 | $4,354 | $439 | $15,292 | $3,977 | $30,818 | $526 | $1,582 | $841 | $6,804 | $8,240 |
| 19. | Georgia Institute of Technology | $70,832 | $11,529 | $3,106 | $2,179 | $2,666 | $11,484 | $729 | $1,544 | $2,074 | $34,959 | $562 |
| 20. | Pennsylvania State U. at University Park and Hershey Medical Center | $67,271 | $2,628 | $10,741 | $8,975 | $2,876 | $16,602 | $1,837 | $2,980 | $0 | $19,766 | $866 |
| 21. | Purdue U. at West Lafayette | $65,203 | $10,786 | $1,699 | $8,079 | $3,579 | $6,928 | $721 | $471 | $0 | $29,327 | $3,613 |
| 22. | U. of California at Los Angeles | $63,344 | $4,452 | $6,638 | $6,678 | $4,533 | $11,025 | $513 | $1,478 | $7,100 | $15,577 | $5,350 |
| 23. | Arizona State U. | $58,610 | $4,356 | $5,381 | $4,786 | $2,258 | $3,960 | $867 | $7,995 | $5,098 | $19,875 | $4,034 |
| 24. | Princeton U. | $57,197 | $5,896 | $7,616 | $3,956 | $3,527 | $22,177 | $93 | $775 | $0 | $13,157 | $0 |
| 25. | U. of Maryland at College Park | $57,157 | $8,937 | $3,399 | $9,436 | $3,240 | $13,955 | $266 | $1,522 | $856 | $13,254 | $2,292 |
| 26. | U. of Arizona | $54,999 | $3,111 | $7,690 | $19,829 | $1,542 | $8,243 | $97 | $2,138 | $2,895 | $8,453 | $1,001 |
| 27. | Harvard U. | $54,074 | $195 | $4,016 | $7,385 | $2,300 | $12,236 | $826 | $2,187 | $4,230 | $15,371 | $5,328 |
| 28. | Rutgers U. at New Brunswick | $53,625 | $5,791 | $13,011 | $3,085 | $5,025 | $13,880 | $141 | $1,622 | $21 | $9,526 | $1,523 |
| 29. | North Carolina State U. | $53,595 | $4,408 | $3,481 | $8,248 | $6,005 | $4,164 | $533 | $502 | $74 | $24,004 | $2,176 |
| 30. | Ohio State U. | $53,077 | $7,259 | $3,288 | $7,603 | $5,208 | $9,615 | $584 | $3,454 | $1,338 | $12,983 | $1,745 |
| 31. | Florida State U. | $51,255 | $2,021 | $2,936 | $3,459 | $832 | $24,393 | $487 | $195 | $137 | $16,083 | $712 |
| 32. | U. of Chicago | $50,276 | $12,099 | $3,216 | $4,338 | $3,474 | $20,155 | $1,725 | $1,183 | $0 | $2,467 | $1,619 |
| 33. | Northwestern U. | $48,927 | $1,191 | $892 | $2,024 | $1,278 | $10,622 | $873 | $3,224 | $6,703 | $17,163 | $4,957 |
| 34. | Oregon State U. | $46,681 | $2,881 | $19,513 | $6,617 | $703 | $1,304 | $201 | $789 | $5,162 | $9,325 | $186 |
| 35. | U. of California at Davis | $45,289 | $3,558 | $4,873 | $17,312 | $2,847 | $4,734 | $118 | $1,957 | $0 | $7,598 | $2,292 |
| 36. | U. of Florida | $44,700 | $3,297 | $7,669 | $8,969 | $547 | $7,834 | $159 | $1,049 | $0 | $12,434 | $2,742 |
| 37. | U. of California at Santa Barbara | $44,450 | $3,728 | $7,782 | $3,209 | $948 | $9,790 | $611 | $1,679 | $0 | $16,065 | $638 |
| 38. | U. of Southern California | $42,954 | $8,160 | $9,530 | $8,308 | $744 | $3,306 | $396 | $1,188 | $28 | $9,860 | $1,434 |
| 39. | U. of Pennsylvania | $40,912 | $6,700 | $589 | $4,172 | $2,207 | $11,736 | $345 | $992 | $22 | $8,558 | $5,591 |
| 40. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $39,362 | $9,258 | $4,148 | $7,562 | $1,918 | $5,889 | $675 | $1,400 | $69 | $4,744 | $3,699 |
| | Top 40 institutions | $2,617,743 | $303,186 | $420,779 | $277,009 | $114,370 | $523,841 | $29,892 | $80,819 | $61,727 | $683,282 | $122,838 |
| | All 579 institutions | $5,114,206 | $590,084 | $706,103 | $728,589 | $229,704 | $979,998 | $71,102 | $145,351 | $130,242 | $1,270,147 | $262,886 |
Note: The rankings cover 579 institutions that reported research-and-development expenditures financed by the National Science Foundation in the 2016 fiscal year. Institutions included in the ranking are geographically separate campuses headed by a campus-level president or chancellor or the equivalent. 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</small></p>