据最近公开资料显示,美国联邦政府在2010会计年度提供大学研究发展经费占各大学总支出612亿美元的61%。
下表列出获研发补助最高的前25名大学:
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Expend Expenditures
1
Johns Hopkins U.*
$1,737,261,000
2
U. of Washington
$829,885,000
3
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
$747,778,000
4
U. of Pennsylvania
$642,180,000
5U. of Pittsburgh, main campus
$594,675,000
6
Stanford U.
$593,016,000
7U. of California at San Diego
$580,279,000
8
Columbia U.
$572,213,000
9U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$545,993,000
10
U. of Wisconsin at Madison
$545,189,000
11
U. of California at Los Angeles
$538,521,000
12
U. of California at San Francisco
$514,693,000
13
Duke U.$514,084,000
14
Yale U.
$475,794,000
15
Harvard U.
$474,899,000
16
Washington U. in St. Louis
$468,642,000
17
Pennsylvania State U. at University Park
$464,750,00018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$457,575,000
19
Cornell U.
$448,085,000
20
U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
$426,359,000
21
U. of Southern California
$408,564,000
22Ohio State U.
$399,942,000
23
Vanderbilt U.
$397,656,000
24
Northwestern U.
$379,648,000
25
Georgia Institute of Technology
$372,122,000
*包括设置国家应用物理实验室(Applied Physics Laboratory) 经费$1,019,375,000
资料来源:美国国家科学基金会 (National Science Foundation)
(译者: 姚君佩)
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