Using data from the higher education R&D survey conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the National Science Foundation, researchers determined the top 30 universities that spent the most on R&D in 2016. The top 30 institutions’ spending constituted 42 percent of the total funds the higher education sector spent on R&D during fiscal year 2016.
Here are the top 10 U.S. universities that spent the most on R&D in 2016.
- The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) — $2.43 billion
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) — $1.44 billion
- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) — $1.3 billion
- UC San Francisco — $1.29 billion
- University of Washington (Seattle) — $1.28 billion
- University of Wisconsin-Madison — $1.16 billion
- UC San Diego (La Jolla, Calif.) — $1.09 billion
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) — $1.08 billion
- Stanford (Calif.) University — $1.07 billion
- Duke University (Durham, N.C.) — $1.06 billion
To view the complete list of universities that spent the most on R&D in 2016, click here.
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