In the early 1990s, universities worried that the federal budget crunch would lead to big cuts in research funding. It now appears that threat was overstated. Federal research and development expenditures grew 50 percent between 1990 and 1997, and Stanford continues to claim its fair share. The top 10, ranked by 1997 federal R&D spending in millions:
|
SCHOOL |
1990 |
1997 |
PERCENTAGE INCREASE |
|
1. Johns Hopkins* |
$600 |
$725 |
21 |
|
2. Stanford** |
$256 |
$332 |
30 |
|
3. U. of Washington |
$203 |
$321 |
58 |
|
4. MIT |
$233 |
$311 |
33 |
|
5. U. of Michigan |
$180 |
$296 |
64 |
|
6. UC-San Diego |
$183 |
$275 |
50 |
|
7. UCLA |
$164 |
$239 |
46 |
|
8. U. of Wisconsin-Madison |
$178 |
$234 |
31 |
|
9. UC-San Francisco |
$175 |
$229 |
31 |
|
10. Harvard |
$154 |
$223 |
45 |
* Includes Applied Physics Lab with $393 million in federally financed R&D expenditures.
** Not including $145 million in 1990 and $200 million in 1997 to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Source: National Science Foundation
