If anyone had any of these in mind…
What are some of the better research universities in the country? Preferably anywhere in the East/Southeast, but I am just curious. I definitely want to look into schools that have an abundance of research opportunities/are well-known for research.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia to name a few.
In the Southeast
Duke
Emory
Vanderbilt
Actual data
The top 60 AAU institutions. All Ivies, Tufts, Brandeis, Rutgers, RIT, RPI, WPI, UTexas, Vandy, Tulane, Emory, GIT,
MIT, CIT, Berkely, USC, UCLA, Ohio St., Penn St., Wisco, Johns Hopkins, UMiami, Fla St., UFlorida, UNC, UIllinois, Illinois Tech.
Michigan has the largest research budget of any public university in this country, second only to Johns Hopkins. It is well know for its UROP:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/urop/
http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/research/undergrad
Actually all of Michigan’s undergraduate schools and colleges offer many research opportunities.
Penn state
Stony Brook
Research in which field? Health sciences? Engineering? Pure sciences? Please be specific.
Based on my previous threads I would say that I’m more interested in biological sciences, other than that I’m not sure how specific I can get right now, seeing as I can’t settle on one particular major. I’m just looking for schools that are great research schools in general. Also, international studies has some kind of research component, or at least I’d like to believe, so any school with a strong IS department would be great as well. @i012575
@rjkofnovi, UMich is first in research expenditures among public RU’s. JHU is private. UW-Madison is 2nd among publics (3rd overall).
So @CORDIE, that list is flat-out wrong, considering that you didn’t list UMich and Northwestern. Not to mention that RIT, RPI, WPI, FSU, UMiami, & IIT aren’t AAU schools. The chutzpah shown by some posters in passing along misinformation astounds.
Top 50 RU’s by research spending:
http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/colleges-with-highest-research-and-development-expenditures/
AAU institutions:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Universities
"UMich is first in research expenditures among public RU’s. JHU is private. UW-Madison is 2nd among publics (3rd overall).
So what you are saying is that Michigan is second to JHU among ALL RU’s. Thanks for reaffirming my statement.
The 62 AAU members already mentioned are tops:
http://aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5474
Plus there are the 108 universities that are considered Carnegie “very high research universities” here:
http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup_listings/srp.php?clq=%7B%22basic2005_ids%22%3A%2215%22%7D&start_page=standard.php&backurl=standard.php&limit=0,50
And 99 more universities that are Carnegie “high research universities” here:
http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup_listings/srp.php?clq=%7B%22basic2005_ids%22%3A%2216%22%7D&start_page=standard.php&backurl=standard.php&limit=0,50
Note that pretty much all of the AAU members are also Carnegie very high research universities. As an fyi, University of Nebraska was an AAU member for about 100 years, but was removed from the list in recent years when the organization changed the way it adds up research dollars.
“Best Research Universities” is a very vague term. AAU members certainly have a high research volume and the Carnegie classifications can help to guide you on which universities have a significant research presence but each field is different and you might find that one of the Carnegie High Research Universities have a stronger department in a specific field than the AAU or Very High Research Universities.
Start with these listings and then dig deeper.
The other thing to question, once you have a list, is how accessible those research opportunities are to an undergraduate looking to get into research. I’m assuming you’re looking for an undergrad college, so you want to go somewhere undergrads routinely work in labs with professors doing that research, and make sure that it’s accessible (for example, if you have interest in biomedical sciences - many major research universities’ medical centers are actually located at a distance from their main campuses).
@PurpleTitan, that bestcolleges.com article is based on 2012 data. The 2013 data, which is the latest available, has Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin and UCSD as the top 5. (Of course, what’s a few million dollars among friends?)
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd