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University Research-and-Development Spending Financed by the Federal Government, FY 2010

August 26, 2012

The federal government financed 61 percent of the $61.2-billion that universities dedicated to research and development in all fields in the 2010 fiscal year.

Rank	Institution	Expenditures
1	Johns Hopkins U.*	$1,737,261,000
2	U. of Washington	$829,885,000
3	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	$747,778,000
4	U. of Pennsylvania	$642,180,000
5	U. of Pittsburgh, main campus	$594,675,000

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The federal government financed 61 percent of the $61.2-billion that universities dedicated to research and development in all fields in the 2010 fiscal year.

Rank	Institution	Expenditures
1	Johns Hopkins U.*	$1,737,261,000
2	U. of Washington	$829,885,000
3	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	$747,778,000
4	U. of Pennsylvania	$642,180,000
5	U. of Pittsburgh, main campus	$594,675,000
6	Stanford U.	$593,016,000
7	U. of California at San Diego	$580,279,000
8	Columbia U.	$572,213,000
9	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$545,993,000
10	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	$545,189,000
11	U. of California at Los Angeles	$538,521,000
12	U. of California at San Francisco	$514,693,000
13	Duke U.	$514,084,000
14	Yale U.	$475,794,000
15	Harvard U.	$474,899,000
16	Washington U. in St. Louis	$468,642,000
17	Pennsylvania State U. at University Park	$464,750,000
18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$457,575,000
19	Cornell U.	$448,085,000
20	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	$426,359,000
21	U. of Southern California	$408,564,000
22	Ohio State U.	$399,942,000
23	Vanderbilt U.	$397,656,000
24	Northwestern U.	$379,648,000
25	Georgia Institute of Technology	$372,122,000
26	U. of Chicago	$352,728,000
27	U. of Texas at Austin	$350,308,000
28	Emory U.	$336,986,000
29	Case Western Reserve U.	$333,689,000
30	U. of California at Davis	$332,325,000
31	California Institute of Technology	$328,522,000
32	U. of Alabama at Birmingham	$325,103,000
33	U. of Rochester	$322,048,000
34	Scripps Research Institute	$313,746,000
35	U. of California at Berkeley	$312,789,000
36	U. of Arizona	$308,157,000
37	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$303,852,000
38	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	$302,770,000
39	Boston U.	$302,411,000
40	U. of Maryland at College Park	$297,896,000
41	U. of Colorado at Boulder	$292,030,000
42	Texas A&M U.	$288,173,000
43	U. of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center	$285,126,000
44	Baylor College of Medicine	$284,072,000
45	U. of Iowa	$282,465,000
46	U. of Florida	$279,649,000
47	U. of Cincinnati	$262,513,000
48	New York U.	$260,463,000
49	Oregon Health & Science U.	$247,054,000
50	U. of South Florida	$243,017,000
51	Purdue U., main campus	$232,564,000
52	U. of Illinois at Chicago	$232,380,000
53	U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	$232,027,000
54	U. of Virginia, main campus	$228,917,000
55	U. of Utah	$227,021,000
56	Rutgers U. at New Brunswick	$224,894,000
57	Michigan State U.	$214,134,000
58	Colorado State U.	$211,297,000
59	U. of Maryland at Baltimore	$208,246,000
60	U. of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	$206,664,000
61	U. of Miami	$197,824,000
62	U. of Hawaii-Manoa	$196,275,000
63	U. of California at Irvine	$194,559,000
64	Carnegie Mellon U.	$179,386,000
65	U. of Massachusetts at Worcester	$178,293,000
66	Arizona State U.	$172,202,000
67	U. of Kentucky	$171,528,000
68	U. at Buffalo	$167,099,000
69	Yeshiva U.	$163,399,000
70	Virginia Tech	$162,566,000
71	U. of Tennessee at Knoxville	$162,151,000
72	Wake Forest U.	$159,084,000
73	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$153,066,000
74	U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	$150,324,000
75	Princeton U.	$150,261,000
76	Indiana U.-Purdue U. of Indianapolis	$148,672,000
77	U. of New Mexico	$148,216,000
78	U. of Kansas	$147,598,000
79	Virginia Commonwealth U.	$144,138,000
80	North Carolina State U.	$139,096,000
81	Oregon State U.	$135,886,000
82	Florida State U.	$134,794,000
83	U. of Connecticut	$132,169,000
84	Wayne State U.	$132,166,000
85	Medical U. of South Carolina	$131,650,000
86	U. of California at Santa Barbara	$129,457,000
87	U. of Texas Medical Branch	$128,840,000
88	Brown U.	$127,087,000
89	U. of South Carolina at Columbia	$125,501,000
90	State U. of New York at Albany	$124,324,000
91	U. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey	$123,399,000
92	George Washington U.	$122,357,000
93	Medical College of Wisconsin	$121,750,000
94	U. of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio	$121,723,000
95	Georgetown U.	$120,589,000
96	State U. of New York at Stony Brook	$120,146,000
97	U. of Georgia	$118,862,000
98	Dartmouth College	$118,271,000
99	U. of Missouri at Columbia	$116,965,000
100	Tufts U.	$116,699,000

* Includes $1,019,375,000 for the Applied Physics Laboratory

Source: National Science Foundation