Fiscal year 2023 · 297 R1 and R2 universities

US university research spending rankings

Name: US university research spending rankings, FY2023
Creator: Research Spend Index

How much every US research university spends on R&D, ranked. Filter by state, tier, or medical school, and open any school for its rank in state, peers, and research office.

$97.30Btotal R&D across the 297 schools listed

$3.80B#1 Johns Hopkins University

169R1 universities listed

132with a medical school

Rank	University	State	Tier	R&D
1	Johns Hopkins University Med	MD	R1	$3.80B
2	University of California-San Francisco Med	CA	R1	$2.05B
3	University of Pennsylvania Med	PA	R1	$1.95B
4	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Med	MI	R1	$1.93B
5	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Med	WA	R1	$1.73B
6	University of Wisconsin-Madison Med	WI	R1	$1.73B
7	University of California-Los Angeles Med	CA	R1	$1.72B
8	University of California-San Diego Med	CA	R1	$1.71B
9	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Med	NC	R1	$1.55B
10	Stanford University Med	CA	R1	$1.54B
11	Duke University Med	NC	R1	$1.51B
12	New York University Med	NY	R1	$1.46B
13	Ohio State University-Main Campus Med	OH	R1	$1.45B
14	Harvard University Med	MA	R1	$1.44B
15	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	R1	$1.41B
16	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Med	PA	R1	$1.40B
17	Columbia University in the City of New York Med	NY	R1	$1.34B
18	Yale University Med	CT	R1	$1.33B
19	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Med	MN	R1	$1.32B
20	Texas A&M University-College Station Med	TX	R1	$1.28B
21	Vanderbilt University Med	TN	R1	$1.25B
22	University of Florida Med	FL	R1	$1.25B
23	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus Med	PA	R1	$1.21B
24	Washington University in St Louis Med	MO	R1	$1.17B
25	University of Southern California Med	CA	R1	$1.16B
26	Northwestern University Med	IL	R1	$1.11B
27	Emory University Med	GA	R1	$1.09B
28	University of California-Berkeley	CA	R1	$1.08B
29	The University of Texas at Austin Med	TX	R1	$1.04B
30	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	R1	$1.00B
31	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Med	NY	R2	$972M
32	University of California-Davis Med	CA	R1	$962M
33	University of Arizona Med	AZ	R1	$955M
34	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	R1	$904M
35	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	R1	$853M
36	Baylor College of Medicine Med	TX	R1	$847M
37	Purdue University-Main Campus Med	IN	R1	$845M
38	Michigan State University Med	MI	R1	$844M
39	Rutgers University-New Brunswick Med	NJ	R1	$832M
40	Cornell University Med	NY	R1	$821M
41	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Med	IL	R1	$821M
42	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Med	TX	R1	$800M
43	University of Alabama at Birmingham Med	AL	R1	$780M
44	Boston University Med	MA	R1	$773M
45	University of Maryland-College Park Med	MD	R1	$738M
46	University of Utah Med	UT	R1	$724M
47	University of Virginia-Main Campus Med	VA	R1	$714M
48	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Med	CO	R1	$709M
49	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Med	OH	R1	$698M
50	University of Iowa Med	IA	R1	$662M

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