To put this into perspective, based on 2016 data, UF was ranked 24th in total R&D spending, ahead of Georgia Tech and UC-Berkeley, and right behind Ohio State and Penn State.
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd
Other key research universities in Florida, includes USF (nationally ranked 46 at $506 million), FSU (82, at $268 million), UCF (91, at $242M), and FIU (119, at $171M).
Berkeley and Gatech don’t have medical schools.
Georgia Tech & Florida switched places from #24 to #25, but are essentially tied based on R&D funds.
The real eye-opener in the list of schools ranking research funding is the University of Pennsylvania which jumped from #17 to #3 (displacing the University of Washington from its seemingly perennial position at #3.)
No medical schools? sure, and UF does most of it’s research in the medical field, but then GT has an University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) that’s funded by the DOD and Berkeley has access to the DOE funded Berkeley Lab.
It is what it is…
@Gator88NE , why is this a surprise for UF? Hasn’t it been like this for the last 3 years or so? In fact, any one to crow about this should be the folks from NYU. UPenn may be an anomaly as this has happened for one year only.
One of my kids attends Pitt Med and they are always in the top 20. Go Panthers!
“it is what it is”
Yes. Apples and oranges.
There is 6x as much medical research dollars because medical research is not cost effective. It’s slow and expensive. 1 stem dollar == 6 med dollars. Conflating the two different fundings and listing the schools into one table is misleading.