R&D Expenditure Per Student For US News top 20 Engineering Schools

College Search & Selection
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So since I’m a student that will be majoring in engineering, and seeing that that’s one of the most popular fields on CC, I decided to make a spreadsheet of the Top Engineering Schools by R&D per student. Now of course, this doesn’t include anywhere near all schools, since I don’t feel like going through a lot of schools.

John Hopkins $295,219
MIT $207,785
Princeton $185,475
Cal Tech $159,511
Virginia Tech $117,186
Penn State $89,125
UWisconsin Madison $79,134
Stanford $52,379
Ga Tech $44,776
Carnegie Mellon $39,230
UC Berkeley $37,008
Duke $38,723
Northwestern $30,212
UMich, Ann Arbor $26,286
UT Austin $27,592
Cornell $23,337
Purdue $19,446
UIUC $19,035
Texas A&M $17,646
Columbia $16,262

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=HERD&o=n&s=a#P

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Thanks!

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Is that undergrad student, grad student, or both?

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These figures would be skewed by medical spending. And different schools have different proportions of STEM vs. non-STEM. Humanities people won’t be bringing in much research dollars.