Four California universities rank in the top 10 nationally for research spending

Students in blue lab coats work with equipment.
UC San Diego spent $1.4 billion on analysis and improvement in fiscal 2020.
(UC San Diego)

4 California universities — UCLA, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco and Stanford — completed within the prime 10 nationally in analysis spending in fiscal 2020, in keeping with newly launched figures from the Nationwide Science Basis. No different state had multiple faculty in that elite bracket.

UC San Francisco, a graduate stage and professional training campus devoted to well being sciences, ranked third nationally with $1.6 billion in spending, UC San Diego ranked sixth; UCLA and Stanford had been seventh and tenth.

UC San Diego spent $1.4 billion on analysis and improvement, greater than half of which went to the well being sciences, together with cash dedicated to serving to develop and check vaccines and medicines to combat COVID-19.

UCSD, which was based in 1960, is the youngest faculty within the prime 10. Harvard, based in 1636, is the oldest.

Johns Hopkins College completed first with $3.1 billion, a determine virtually $1.5 billion larger than the runner-up, Michigan. The Maryland faculty is the perpetual chief as a result of it operates the famed Utilized Physics Lab, which closely serves the Protection Division — particularly the Navy — and NASA.

Collectively, the nation’s educational establishments spent $86.4 billion in 2020. That was a 3.3% enhance ($2.7 billion) over the earlier 12 months.

High 10 faculties in analysis spending

Johns Hopkins College: $3,110,494,000
College of Michigan: $1,673,862,000
UC San Francisco: $1,651,073,000
College of Pennsylvania: $1,579,364,000
College of Washington: $1,456,902,000
UC San Diego: $1,403,735,000
UCLA: $1,392,941,000
College of Wisconsin: $1,363,931,000
Harvard: $1,239,983,000
Stanford: $1,203,950,000
Supply: NSF

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