All Science and Engineering Research and Development Rankings

NIH Awards to Institutions of Higher Education
Federal Obligations for Science and Engineering Research and Development
Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges

National Institutes of Health Awards to Institutions of Higher Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is ranked sixteenth among both private and public universities nationwide in the most recent rankings for National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards to institutions of higher education, according to aggregate data released by the federal agency. UNC-Chapel Hill faculty researchers received $305.1 million in NIH extramural awards in FY 2007, up from $300.03 million in FY 2006.

Among public campuses, UNC-Chapel Hill was sixth behind the universities of California at San Francisco, Washington, Michigan at Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, California at Los Angeles, and California at San Diego. Carolina is the top public university in the South and one of only two universities, public or private, from North Carolina cited in the NIH's top 20. The other was Duke University, ranked seventh overall with $385.7 million.

NIH stopped ranking organizations in 2005 and instead supplied aggregate award information. The UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Sponsored Research tabulated that aggregate data to show Carolina's rank in comparison with other domestic institutions of higher education.

All five UNC-Chapel Hill health affairs schools ranked in the top twenty when compared with their peers, according to NIH:

School of Dentistry ranked third ($10.4 million)
School of Nursing ranked sixth ($5.97 million)
School of Pharmacy ranked sixth (up one spot at $8.96 million)
School of Public Health ranked eighth ($32.3 million)
School of Medicine ranked sixteenth ($205.8 million).

(Source: NIH Extramural Awards Aggregate Data. Updated: 05/2008.)

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Federal Obligations for Science and Engineering Research and Development

Based on most recently available data from National Science Foundation/Science Resource Statistics (NSF/SRS) (FY 2006), UNC-Chapel Hill ranks:

Seventeenth in federal obligations for science and engineering (S&E), by type of activity ($374.5 million)
- Detail by agency
Eighth in federal obligations for fellowships, traineeships, and training grants, by agency ($22.5 million)

Seventeenth (up three spots) in federal obligations for S&E research and development (R&D), by agency ($343.4 million)

(Source: NSF/SRS . Updated: 04/2009.)

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Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges

Based on most recently available data from the NSF/SRS (FY 2007 for expenditures), UNC-Chapel Hill ranks:

Among public universities and colleges:

Eighteenth (up one spot) in total R&D expenditures, by source of funds ($477.2 million)

Among all institutions of higher education:

Twenty-first in federally financed R&D expenditures ($346.7 million)
- Detail by S&E field
- Detail by federal agency
Sixteenth (up two spots) in federally financed R&D expenditures financed by the Department of Health and Human services, by S&E field ($265.9 million)
Twenty-third in R&D expenditures at all universities and colleges with a medical school ($477.2)
Twenty-seventh (up four spots) in total R&D expenditures ($477.2 million)
- Detail by source of funds
- Detail by S&E field
By science and engineering fields
- Fourth (up one spot) in federally financed R&D expenditures in the social sciences ($23.4 million)
- Seventh in total R&D expenditures in the social sciences ($37.1 million)
- Seventh in total R&D expenditures in the biological sciences ($180.2 million)
- Fourteenth in total R&D expenditures in chemistry ($20.2 million)
- Fifteenth (up three spots) in federally financed R&D expenditures in the life sciences ($272.8 million)
- Twenty-fourth in total R&D expenditures in the computer sciences ($11.4 million)
By R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients or received as subrecipient
- Thirteenth (up four spots) in federally financed R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients ($40.5 million)
- Sixteenth in total R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients ($44 million)
- Twenty-first (up five spots) in federally financed R&D expenditures received as subrecipient ($37.1 million)
- Twenty-fifth (up four spots) in total R&D expenditures received as subrecipient ($41.1 million)

(Source: NSF/SRS. Updated: 03/2009.)