Introduction to the Tables for
Universities Reporting any Federal Research in 1990-2004
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In the published version of this study, this section focused on TheCenter’s Research Universities, which consist of academic institutions that had more than $20 million in federal research expenditures in FY 2003. For the web user, we expand our universe to include any institution that reported to NSF in 1990-2003 and categorize the institutions into one of four research groups – Over $20 million, $5-$20 million, $1-$5 million, and Under $1 million – based on its level of FY 2002 federal research expenditures.
In the following tables, institutions are listed alphabetically with the most current data available. TheCenter provides both the national rank (rank among all universities) and the control rank (rank within private or public universities). We include four years of data for each measure, which correspond to the same data years used in each of The Top American Research Universities reports. The prior years’ data and ranks presented here may differ slightly from our last report due to revised figures or estimates from the data source or institution.
In addition to the nine performance variables presented in The Top American Research Universities tables, these tables also include other institutional characteristics related to student enrollment, medical schools, land grant status, ownership, research focus, and National Merit and National Achievement Scholars. The Source Notes section of this report provides detailed information on each data element.
Tables in this section include:
- Total Research Expenditures for 2000-2004
- Federal Research Expenditures for 2000-2004
- Research by Discipline provides the current year’s expenditures broken out by major discipline.
- Endowment Assets for 2001-2005.
- Annual Giving for 2001-2005
- National Academy Membership for 2001-2005
- Faculty Awards for 2001-2005
- Doctorates Awarded for 2001-2005
- Postdoctoral Appointees for 2000-2004
- National Merit and Achievement Scholars for 2001-2005
- Change: Research presents trend data on total, federal, and non-federal research (1994 and 2003) in constant dollars.
- Change: Private Support and Doctorates contains trend data on endowment assets (1995 and 2004) and annual giving (1995 and 2004) in constant dollars, and doctorates awarded (1995 and 2004).
- Change: Students provides trend data on National Merit and Achievement Scholars (1994 and 2003), and student headcount enrollment (1994 and 2003).
- Institutional Characteristics includes state location, highest degree offered, medical school and land grant status, federal research focus (summary of federal research by discipline), and total student enrollment.
- TheCenter Measures presents the number of times a university ranks in the top 25 (or 26-50) on the nine quality measures in this year’s report as compared to the past five years (2000-2004 reports). These tables are presented with overall standings, as well as by control
- Student Characteristics contains headcount enrollment data broken out by level (i.e., undergraduate, graduate, first-professional), part-time enrollment by level, and degrees awarded.
- Ten-Year Total Research in Current Dollars (1994-2003)
- Ten-Year Total Research in Constant Dollars (1994-2003)
- Ten-Year Federal Research in Current Dollars (1994-2003)
- Ten-Year Federal Research in Constant Dollars (1994-2003)
- Ten-Year Endowment Assets in Current Dollars (1995-2004)
- Ten-Year Endowment Assets in Constant Dollars (1995-2004)
- Ten-Year Annual Giving in Current Dollars (1995-2004)
- Ten-Year Annual Giving in Constant Dollars (1995-2004)
- Ten-Year National Merit and Achievement Scholars (1995-2004)
Data found in these tables may not always match the figures published by the original source. TheCenter makes adjustments, when necessary, to ensure that the data reflect the activity at a single campus rather than that of a multiple campus institution or state university system. When data are missing from the original source, TheCenter may substitute another figure, if available. A full discussion of this subject, and the various adjustments or substitutions made to the original data, is in the Data Notes section of this report.
Every effort is made to find actual or estimated data for any institution with more than $20 million in federal research that did not report to the original data source. For institutions below the $20 million cutoff, we typically do not use a substitute value.