Useful Stats: 2004 Federal R&D Obligations to Universities and Colleges by State

The federal government distributed $23.8 billion in R&D obligations to universities and colleges in fiscal year 2004 — a 4.4 percent increase from the FY 2003 total of $22.8 billion, according to new National Science Foundation (NSF) data. In its report, Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: Fiscal Year 2004, NSF details all categories of direct federal science and engineering support to institutions of higher education in the U.S.

 

Single-year snapshots can be misleading, so SSTI has prepared a table using the NSF data that shows the state rankings for total federal academic R&D obligations and percent change over the five-year period of 2000-2004. Nationally, federal R&D obligations grew by 37.7 percent over the period but some states saw much larger changes. Among these states, Hawaii showed the largest increase in federal R&D obligations at 108.3 percent, followed by Nebraska (85.2 percent), North Dakota (81.5 percent), Tennessee (73.9 percent) and Kentucky (60.9 percent).

 

In total dollar amount, California led the nation with $3.46 billion in federal R&D obligations in 2004. Along with California, five other states received more than $1 billion in federal R&D obligations: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas and Massachusetts.

 

SSTI's table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/032607t.htm

 

Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: Fiscal Year 2004 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07316/