As an addition to my previous post, here’s the NSF research expenditure data for the life sciences for the top 80 LACs, averaged over 2006-2015. I excluded the single-sex colleges and the military academies; data was missing for Bard, St. John’s, Thomas Aquinas, Hillsdale, Knox, and Wofford. Due to its outstanding performance, I added Hope.
Bowdoin – $1,420,000
Haverford – $968,600
Amherst – $912,100
Reed – $830,000
Lewis & Clark – $756,800
Pomona – $755,700
Williams – $725,400
Franklin & Marshall – $716,500
Bates – $707,400
Bucknell – $686,800
Hope – $681,200
Swarthmore – $674,500
Middlebury – $673,400
Colgate – $624,100
Occidental – $611,700
Trinity (CT) – $574,500
St. Olaf – $539,600
Connecticut College – $531,00
Kenyon – $486,800
Richmond – $469,300
Skidmore – $443,300
Colby – $413,000
Davidson – $407,300
Willamette – $392,000
Vassar – $371,400
Macalester – $369,100
Grinnell – $361,700
Carleton – $359,100
Claremont McKenna – $354,500
Oberlin – $336,600
Whitman – $326,600
Dickinson – $321,600
Union – $316,900
Harvey Mudd – $291,100
Hendrix – $268,400
Muhlenberg – $259,900
Wooster – $234,600
Puget Sound – $232,700
Furman – $227,800
Sewanee – $190,400
Beloit – $175,000
Earlham – $167,400
Rhodes – $155,000
Washington & Lee – $153,600
Holy Cross – $139,300
Hamilton – $132,900
Lafayette – $127,900
Sarah Lawrence – $106,800
Wheaton (IL) – $103,800
Kalamazoo – $103,900
Berea – $97,000
Denison – $95,000
DePauw – $93,600
Colorado College – $92,400
Centre – $89,200
Lawrence – $83,600
Pitzer – $80,900
Hobart & William Smith – $74,700
St. Lawrence – $74,000
Gettysburg – $72,300
Illinois Wesleyan – $70,400
Allegheny – $62,700
Wheaton (MA) – $37,600