Higher Education Research and Development Survey
Fiscal Year 2015

  • Errata | Mar 02, 2017
    In Table A-21, the R&D expenditures reported for the Federal Bureau of Investigation were inadvertently included in the Department of Transportation rather than the Department of Justice. The R&D expenditure amounts have since been corrected for these two federal agencies.
NCSES errata

 

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Trends in higher education R&D expenditures
1 by source of funds and R&D field: FYs 1953–2015
2 by source of funds: FYs 2010–15
3 total and federally financed expenditures, by character of work: FYs 1953–2015
4 by source of funds and type of R&D: FYs 2010–15
5 by R&D field: FYs 2006–15
6 federally financed expenditures, by R&D field: FYs 2006–15
7 nonfederally financed expenditures, by R&D field: FYs 2006–15
 
Higher education R&D expenditures by selected area
8 by source of funds and R&D field: FY 2015
9 federally financed, by federal agency and R&D field: FY 2015
by highest degree granted and institutional control: FYs 2011–15
10 from foreign sources
11 externally funded, by type of agreement
12 by type of cost
by institutional control
13 for equipment, by R&D field and source of funds: FY 2015
14 total, within medical schools: FYs 2011–15
15 for clinical trials, by source of funds and highest degree granted: FYs 2011–15
 
Institution rankings
16 ranked by FY 2015 R&D expenditures: FYs 2006–15
17 ranked by all R&D expenditures, by source of funds: FY 2015
18 ranked by all R&D expenditures, by R&D field: FY 2015
federally financed
19 ranked by FY 2015 federal R&D expenditures: FYs 2006–15
20 ranked by all federal R&D expenditures, by R&D field: FY 2015
21 ranked by all federally financed R&D expenditures, by federal agency: FY 2015
nonfederally financed
ranked by all R&D expenditures, by R&D field: FY 2015
22 state and local governments
23 institutional funds
24 businesses
25 nonprofit organizations
26 all other sources
special focus
ranked by all R&D expenditures: FY 2015
27 historically black colleges and universities, by source of funds
28 historically black colleges and universities, by R&D field
29 high-Hispanic-enrollment institutions, by source of funds
30 high-Hispanic-enrollment institutions, by R&D field
31 ranked by all non-medical school R&D expenditures: FY 2015
ranked by all R&D expenditures, by source of funds: FY 2015
32 public institutions
33 private institutions
 
Expenditures in R&D fields
science fields, ranked by FY 2015 total: FYs 2012–15
34 computer sciences, total and federally financed expenditures
35 environmental sciences and subfields, total expenditures
36 environmental sciences and subfields, federally financed expenditures
37 life sciences and subfields, total expenditures
38 life sciences and subfields, federally financed expenditures
39 agricultural sciences, total and federally financed expenditures
40 biological sciences, total and federally financed expenditures
41 medical sciences, total and federally financed expenditures
42 mathematical sciences, total and federally financed expenditures
43 physical sciences and subfields, total expenditures
44 physical sciences and subfields, federally financed expenditures
45 chemistry, total and federally financed expenditures
46 physics, total and federally financed expenditures
47 psychology, total and federally financed expenditures
48 social sciences and subfields, total expenditures
49 social sciences and subfields, federally financed expenditures
engineering, ranked by FY 2015 totals
50 total and federally financed expenditures: FYs 2012–15
51 subfields, total expenditures: FYs 2013–15
52 subfields, federally financed expenditures: FYs 2013–15
non-S&E fields and subfields, ranked by FY 2015 totals: FYs 2013–15
53 total expenditures
54 federally financed expenditures
 
Federally financed expenditures, ranked by federal agency total, by R&D field: FY 2015
55 Department of Defense
56 Department of Energy
57 Department of Health and Human Services
58 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
59 National Science Foundation
60 Department of Agriculture
61 all other federal agencies
 
Geographic distribution
FYs 2006–15
62 by state
63 by state, institutional control, and institution
64 by state and source of funds: FY 2015
by state, institutional control, and institution: FY 2015
65 by source of funds
66 by R&D field
67 at institutions with a medical school
68 at institutions reporting clinical trials, by source of funds
 
R&D expenditures passed through to and received as subrecipients: FY 2015
total and federally financed, by highest degree granted and institutional control
69 received as a subrecipient
70 passed through to subrecipients
total and federally financed, by state, institutional control, and institution
71 received as a subrecipient
72 passed through to subrecipients
 
R&D personnel at higher education institutions
73 by state, institutional control, and institution: FYs 2012–15 (detail for FY 2015)
 
R&D expenditures in science and engineering fields: FYs 2006–15
74 total, ranked by FY 2015 R&D expenditures
75 federally financed, ranked by FY 2015 R&D expenditures
76 by state
 
R&D expenditures at institutions in the short form survey population
institutions in the short form survey population, by state, institutional control, and institution
77 total: FYs 2012–15
78 by R&D field: FY 2015
79 total received from and passed through to other higher education institutions, by source of funds: FY 2015
institutions in both survey populations
80 total, by source of funds, R&D field, and survey population: FY 2015
81 total received from and passed through to other higher education institutions, by source of funds and survey population: FY 2015
82 total, all institutions in both survey populations, ranked by total R&D, by source of funds: FY 2015
83 total, all institutions in both survey populations, by state, institutional control, system, and institution: FY 2015
November 2016

Data from survey cycle FY 2015
(finalized 27 July 2016)

National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, Fiscal Year 2015. http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/.


 

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Table Technical Tables
A-1 Institution name changes between FY 2014 and FY 2015 surveys
A-2 Total and federally financed higher education R&D expenditures at surveyed institutions reporting less than $150,000 in separately budgeted R&D expenditures: FY 2015
A-3 Institutions surveyed, by highest degree granted and survey population: FYs 2010–15
 
Response rates: FY 2015
A-4 by survey population and highest degree granted
A-5 by survey form and question
 
Imputed amounts for higher education R&D expenditures: FY 2015
A-6 total, by survey population and highest degree granted
A-7 total, by survey population and source of funds
A-8 from foreign sources, by highest degree granted and institutional control
A-9 externally financed, by type of agreement
A-10 in a medical school, by institutional control
A-11 for clinical trials, by source of funds
for total and federally financed higher education R&D expenditures
A-12 by type of R&D
A-13 received as a subrecipient, by survey population and type of pass-through entity
A-14 passed through, by survey population and type of subrecipient
A-15 Standard form population, by R&D field
A-16 Short form population, by R&D field
A-17 by type of cost
A-18 for total and federally financed higher education R&D equipment expenditures, by R&D field
 
Imputed amounts for personnel headcounts: FY 2015
A-19 all personnel, by type of personnel
A-20 R&D postdocs, by highest degree granted and institutional control
 
Response details: FY 2015
A-21 Question 9, federally financed higher education R&D expenditures, from federal agencies not specified in question 9
by highest degree granted and institutional control
A-22 Question 13, capitalization thresholds, by highest degree granted, institutional control, and capitalization threshold
November 2016

Data from survey cycle FY 2015
(finalized 27 July 2016)