See how Colorado colleges rank among U.S. universities for R&D spending

By G. Scott Thomas
Denver Business Journal

Colorado colleges rank among the top 100 U.S. colleges that are most active in research and development, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation.

The University of Colorado-Boulder had $499,389,000 in R&D spending in fiscal year 2017, putting it in 48th place in the foundation's annual Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

The University of Colorado-Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus had $480,598,000 in R&D spending in 2017, ranking 50th, and Colorado State University had $338,404,000, ranking 70th.

Johns Hopkins University, at $2.56 billion, finished as the nation's No. 1 university for expenditures on research and development. Eleven other schools topped $1 billion last year, based on the foundation's report.

The top 100 universities in the national rankings combined for R&D spending of $59.41 billion a year ago.

Here is the National Science Foundation's complete top-100 list, ranked by research and development spending in fiscal 2017:

• 1. Johns Hopkins University, R&D expenditures: $2,562,307,000

• 2. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, R&D expenditures: $1,530,139,000

• 3. University of California-San Francisco, R&D expenditures: $1,409,398,000

• 4. University of Pennsylvania, R&D expenditures: $1,374,293,000

• 5. University of Washington-Seattle, R&D expenditures: $1,348,220,000

• 6. University of Wisconsin-Madison, R&D expenditures: $1,193,413,000

• 7. University of California-San Diego, R&D expenditures: $1,133,454,000

• 8. Duke University, R&D expenditures: $1,126,924,000

• 9. Harvard University, R&D expenditures: $1,123,160,000

• 10. Stanford University, R&D expenditures: $1,109,708,000

• 11. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, R&D expenditures: $1,102,063,000

• 12. University of California-Los Angeles, R&D expenditures: $1,076,917,000

• 13. Cornell University, R&D expenditures: $984,478,000

• 14. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, R&D expenditures: $952,017,000

• 15. Yale University, R&D expenditures: $951,084,000

• 16. University of Pittsburgh, R&D expenditures: $939,706,000

• 17. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, R&D expenditures: $921,681,000

• 18. New York University, R&D expenditures: $917,744,000

• 19. Texas A&M University-College Station and Health Science Center, R&D expenditures: $905,474,000

• 20. Columbia University in the City of New York, R&D expenditures: $893,062,000

• 21. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, R&D expenditures: $888,029,000

• 22. Ohio State University, R&D expenditures: $864,327,000

• 23. Pennsylvania State University-University Park and Hershey Medical Center, R&D expenditures: $854,815,000

• 24. Georgia Institute of Technology, R&D expenditures: $804,301,000

• 25. University of Florida, R&D expenditures: $801,418,000

• 26. University California-Berkeley, R&D expenditures: $770,822,000

• 27. University of Southern California, R&D expenditures: $764,322,000

• 28. Washington University in St. Louis, R&D expenditures: $754,462,000

• 29. Northwestern University, R&D expenditures: $751,809,000

• 30. University California-Davis, R&D expenditures: $738,347,000

• 31. Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, R&D expenditures: $712,036,000

• 32. Michigan State University, R&D expenditures: $694,917,000

• 33. Rutgers University, R&D expenditures: $681,719,000

• 34. Emory University, R&D expenditures: $664,888,000

• 35. University of Texas-Austin, R&D expenditures: $652,187,000

• 36. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, R&D expenditures: $642,084,000

• 37. Purdue University, R&D expenditures: $622,814,000

• 38. University of Arizona, R&D expenditures: $622,200,000

• 39. Baylor College of Medicine, R&D expenditures: $604,952,000

• 40. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, R&D expenditures: $575,448,000

• 41. University of Alabama-Birmingham, R&D expenditures: $561,851,000

• 42. University of South Florida, R&D expenditures: $557,889,000

• 43. University of Maryland-College Park, R&D expenditures: $548,885,000

• 44. Arizona State University, R&D expenditures: $545,016,000

• 45. Indiana University-Bloomington, R&D expenditures: $540,421,000

• 46. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, R&D expenditures: $522,425,000

• 47. North Carolina State University, R&D expenditures: $500,445,000

• 48. University of Colorado-Boulder, R&D expenditures: $499,389,000

• 49. University of Iowa, R&D expenditures: $494,280,000

• 50. University of Colorado-Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus, R&D expenditures: $480,598,000

• 51. University of Virginia, R&D expenditures: $469,682,000

• 52. University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, R&D expenditures: $461,797,000

• 53. University of Georgia, R&D expenditures: $455,432,000

• 54. University of Cincinnati, R&D expenditures: $455,250,000

• 55. University of Chicago, R&D expenditures: $433,328,000

• 56. University of Maryland-Baltimore County, R&D expenditures: $426,895,000

• 57. Boston University, R&D expenditures: $421,360,000

• 58. Case Western Reserve University, R&D expenditures: $408,609,000

• 59. University at Buffalo, R&D expenditures: $401,591,000

• 60. California Institute of Technology, R&D expenditures: $400,312,000

• 61. University of Utah, R&D expenditures: $380,295,000

• 62. University of Kentucky, R&D expenditures: $378,374,000

• 63. University of Illinois-Chicago, R&D expenditures: $372,619,000

• 64. University of Miami, R&D expenditures: $367,877,000

• 65. University of California-Irvine, R&D expenditures: $361,414,000

• 66. Washington State University, R&D expenditures: $356,901,000

• 67. Scripps Research Institute, R&D expenditures: $354,582,000

• 68. University of Rochester, R&D expenditures: $353,003,000

• 69. Oregon Health and Science University, R&D expenditures: $348,449,000

• 70. Colorado State University-Fort Collins, R&D expenditures: $338,404,000

• 71. Carnegie Mellon University, R&D expenditures: $328,100,000

• 72. Princeton University, R&D expenditures: $326,207,000

• 73. Iowa State University, R&D expenditures: $323,584,000

• 74. Rockefeller University, R&D expenditures: $319,037,000

• 75. SUNY Polytechnic Institute, R&D expenditures: $308,861,000

• 76. Dartmouth College, R&D expenditures: $308,445,000

• 77. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, R&D expenditures: $302,204,000

• 78. University of Kansas, R&D expenditures: $300,319,000

• 79. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, R&D expenditures: $298,370,000

• 80. University of Hawaii-Manoa, R&D expenditures: $292,021,000

• 81. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, R&D expenditures: $289,685,000

• 82. Florida State University, R&D expenditures: $282,901,000

• 83. University of Massachusetts Medical School, R&D expenditures: $279,884,000

• 84. University of Oklahoma-Norman and Health Science Center, R&D expenditures: $272,239,000

• 85. Temple University, R&D expenditures: $268,385,000

• 86. University of Connecticut, R&D expenditures: $267,647,000

• 87. Oregon State University, R&D expenditures: $267,068,000

• 88. Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, R&D expenditures: $266,177,000

• 89. Medical University of South Carolina, R&D expenditures: $262,267,000

• 90. University of Missouri-Columbia, R&D expenditures: $253,952,000

• 91. University of New Mexico, R&D expenditures: $246,597,000

• 92. University of Texas Health Science Center, R&D expenditures: $246,060,000

• 93. George Washington University, R&D expenditures: $245,519,000

• 94. Mississippi State University, R&D expenditures: $240,972,000

• 95. Stony Brook University, R&D expenditures: $238,612,000

• 96. University of California-Santa Barbara, R&D expenditures: $238,246,000

• 97. Virginia Commonwealth University, R&D expenditures: $235,464,000

• 98. University of Central Florida, R&D expenditures: $233,702,000

• 99. Wayne State University, R&D expenditures: $227,728,000

• 100. Tufts University, R&D expenditures: $223,409,000