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Quick Fact Cornell has alternated between the first and second spots for the past several years in National Science Foundation funding.


Research Statistics


Ranking Cornell

in thousands
By Research Expenditures FY 2008
Ranking Cornell Nationally
1 Johns Hopkins University* $1,680,927
2 University of California, San Francisco 885,182
3 University of Wisconsin, Madison 881,777
4 University of Michigan 876,390
5 University of California, Los Angeles 871,478
6 University of California, San Diego 842,027
7 Duke University 766,906
8 University of Washington 765,135
9 University of Pennsylvania 708,244
10 Ohio State University 702,592
11 Pennsylvania State University 701,130
12 Stanford University 688,225
13 University of Minnesota 682,662
14 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 659,626
15 Cornell University 653,996
 
Ranking Cornell in New York
1 Cornell University $653,996
2 Columbia University 548,704
3 University of Rochester 375,218
4 SUNY, Buffalo 338,300
5 New York University 310,699
6 Mount Sinai School of Medicine 296,380
7 SUNY, Albany 270,414
8 SUNY, Stony Brook 252,745
9 Rockefeller University 247,505
10 Yeshiva University 197,311
 
* Johns Hopkins University includes the Applied Physics Laboratory, with $845,396 in total R&D expenditures.
Source: National Science Foundation
Note: Research expenditures of $12,586 for Cornell’s National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) are reported separately and are not included in the above NSF amounts. Nonscience and Engineering research expenditures of $1,645 are not included in the above NSF amounts.
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