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Useful Stats: 2001 State Rankings of Academic R&D Expenditures
Academic R&D expenditures grew 8.9 percent in 2001, according to the National Science Foundation's FY 2001 survey of research and development expenditures at universities and colleges. Reported in Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001, the survey finds 609 institutions of higher education in the U.S. collectively spent $32.732 billion in FY 2001. The figure for FY 2000 was $30.042 billion.
Federal sources of R&D funds accounted for a significant majority of the growth, climbing to $19.191 billion in FY 2001 — 9.6 percent higher than the $17.508 billion reported for the previous year. State and industry sources of R&D expenditures at academic institutions grew 5.4 and 3.8 percent, respectively, over the year and together account for just over $4.5 billion. Of the sources, institutional funds experienced the greatest percentage growth, rising nearly 10.5 percent to $6.553 billion in FY 2001. All other sources, such as foundations or individuals, provided $2.430 billion in FY 2001.
With 74 detailed statistical tables, Academic Research and Development Expenditures presents the findings by source of funds, field and selected subfields of science or engineering, by academic institution, and by geographic distribution. SSTI has prepared a table standardizing academic R&D expenditures on a per capita basis by state.
The SSTI table shows the national average academic R&D expenditures per capita in FY 2001 was $112.90. The figure was $105.17 for FY 2000. The District of Columbia reported the highest academic R&D expenditures per capita for FY 2001 at $389.12, significantly lower than the nation-leading results of $421.88 posted one year earlier. Maryland, Massachusetts, Alaska, New Hampshire, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, Connecticut and Nebraska round out the top 10 on a per capita basis.
SSTI's table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/041803t.htm
Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03316