UW achieves $1 billion research milestone

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<p><a href="WebWire">quote</a> 8/1/2007 4:23:46 PM
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<p>The University of Washington received over $1 billion in grant and contract research funding for the most recent fiscal year, marking the first time it has reached this level.</p>

<p>The total funds received for research in the fiscal year ended June 30 were $1,019,977,296. Virtually all of the funding results from peer-reviewed research proposals by individual faculty members.</p>

<p>The UW has been the top public university in federal research funding every year since 1974 and among the top five universities, public and private, in federal funding since 1969. Federal grants comprise nearly 80 percent of the UW research funding. In 1974 the grant and contract awards totaled just over $90 million.

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<p>My (graduate) alma mater. Particularly remarkable, given the NIH pay-line. Now if they only had a football team.....</p>

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<p>UW is a great place, but size does help! More facutly = more folks to write grants. But don't let me detract from a fine accomplishment.</p>

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<p>Please remember there is another large UW out there, add a name- thanks.</p>

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<p>University of Wyoming??? :)</p>

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<p>University of Wichita?</p>

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<p>"The University of Washington received over $1 billion in grant and contract research funding"</p>

<p>Can you spell B-I-L-L G-A-T-E-S?</p>

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<p>^I can, but that is not the source of the $.</p>

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The UW has been the top public university in federal research funding every year since 1974 and among the top five universities, public and private, in federal funding since 1969.

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<p>It is true that Bill has donated some substantial $ that enhances the UW's competitiveness, but that is mainly infrastructure, not direct research funding.</p>

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<p>Too bad they still lag in actual research spending rankings. UW continues to to emphasize total grants awarded--some of which might be spent over 10 years--but don't highlight their much lower rank in total annual spending.</p>

<p>Here's the most recent official rankings.</p>

<p>TABLE 4. Twenty institutions reporting the largest FY 2005 academic R&D expenditures in science and engineering fields: FY 2004–05* </p>

<p>(Millions of current dollars)<br>
Rank Institution 2004 2005
All R&D expendituresa 43,229 45,750</p>

<pre><code>Leading 20 institutions 12,826 13,691
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<p>*** 1 <em>Johns Hopkins U., Theb 1,375 1,444
*</em> 2 <em>U. MI all campuses 769 809
*</em> 3 <em>U. WI Madison 764 798
*</em> 4 <em>U. CA, Los Angeles 773 786
*</em> 5 <em>U. CA, San Francisco 728 754
*</em> 6 <em>U. CA, San Diego 709 721
*</em> 7 <em>Stanford U. 671 715
*</em> 8 <em>U. WA 714 708
*</em> 9 *<strong><em>U. PA 597 655
* 10 *</em></strong>Duke U. 521 631
* 11 *<strong><em>PA State U. all campuses 600 626
* 12 *</em></strong>OH State U. all campuses 518 609
* 13 *<strong><em>Cornell U. all campuses 576 607
* 14 *</em></strong>MA Institute of Technology 543 581
* 15 *<strong><em>U. CA, Berkeley 526 555
* 16 *</em></strong>U. MN all campuses 526 549
* 17 *<strong><em>U. CA, Davis 512 547
* 18 *</em></strong>Columbia U. in the City of NY 468 535
* 19 *<strong><em>Washington U. St. Louis 490 532
* 20 *</em></strong>U. FL 447 531</p>

<pre><code> All other institutions 30,403 32,059
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<p>a Excludes R&D performed by university-administered federally funded research and development centers. </p>

<p>b Includes the Applied Physics Laboratory, with $670 million and $678 million, respectively, in total R&D expenditures in FY 2004 and FY 2005. </p>

<p>NOTE:**Because of rounding, detail may not add to total. </p>

<p>SOURCE:**National Science Foundation/Division of Science Resources Statistics, Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges, FY 2005. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07311/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07311/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>That's incredible</p>

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<p>barrons, you included the APL footnote, but not that it applies to Hopkins. If you deducted the APL funding, then Hopkins drops to #7. Not to shabby still.</p>

<p>It is also worth noting that comparing among institutions can be difficult due to how the medical school funding is handled. For example, U. Chicago (not even on this list!) owns its teaching hospital, so it counts all the NIH money going there. Harvard, OTOH, owns none of its teaching hospitals, so none of the money going to them is counted. If it were, it would be at the top of this list.</p>

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<p>I copied the entire chart. Yes Hopkins has always cheated a bit by refusing to take out the APL funding due to "accounting problems".
I also believe classified research is not included. That hurts MIT.</p>