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Useful Stats: 2005 Federal R&D Obligations to Universities and Colleges by State
The federal government made obligations of $25 billion in R&D to colleges and universities in fiscal year 2005 - a 4.8 percent increase from the FY 2004 total of $23.8 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 2005, NSF details all categories of direct federal science and engineering support to institutions of higher education in the U.S.
Delving deeper into the data, SSTI has prepared a table showing the state rankings for total federal academic R&D obligations and percent change over the five-year period from 2001-2005. During this time, federal R&D obligations grew by 29 percent but some states experienced much larger changes. North Dakota showed the largest increase in federal R&D obligations at 106.7 percent, followed by Nevada (91.6 percent), Idaho (81.4 percent), Hawaii (68.6 percent) and Louisiana (61.4 percent).
For fiscal year 2005, California led the nation with $3.56 billion in federal R&D obligations. This is followed by New York, which broke the $2 billion mark in 2005 for the first time. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas and Massachusetts all received more than $1 billion, and North Carolina reached $1 billion for the first time.
“Obligations are the amounts for orders placed, contracts awarded, services received, and similar transactions during a given period, regardless of when the funds were appropriated and when future payment of money is required,” according to the report. “Obligations differ from expenditures in that funds allocated by federal agencies during one fiscal year may be spent by the recipient institution either partially or entirely during one or more subsequent years.”
SSTI's table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/110707t.htm
Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: Fiscal Year 2005 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07333/