UPenn, USC, or Amherst?

College Search & Selection
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National Science Foundation Ranking of Schools By R&D Expenditures for 2017:

  1. JHU–$2,562,000,000
  2. Michigan–$1,530,000,000
  3. UC-SF–$1,409,000,000
  4. UPenn–$1,374,000,000
  5. Univ. of Wash–Seattle–$1,348,000,000

6)Wisconsin–$1,193,000,000
7) Duke–$1,126,000,000
8) Harvard–$1,123,000,000
9) Stanford–$1,109,000,000
10) UNC-Chapel Hill–$1,102,000,000

  1. Cornell–$984,000,000

  2. MIT–$952,000,000

  3. Yale–$951,000,000

  4. Univ. of Pittsburgh–$939,000,000

  5. Minnesota–$921,000,000

  6. NYU–$917,000,000

  7. Texas A&M System–$905,000,000

  8. Columbia–$893,000,000

  9. Ohio State–$864,000,000

  10. Penn State–$854,000,000

  11. Georgia Tech–$804,000,000

  12. Univ. of Florida–$801,000,000

  13. UCal-Berkeley–$770,000,000

  14. USC–$764,000,000

  15. WashUStL–$754,000,000

  16. Northwestern University–$751,000,000

  17. Vanderbilt–$712,000,000

  18. Michigan State Univ.–$694,000,000

  19. Rutgers NB–$681,000,000

  20. Emory University–$664,000,000

The Top Ranked LAC for R&D expenditures in 2017:

321 Bryn Mawr College--$11,000,000

420 Amherst College--$4,000,000