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Table 74. Total and federally financed higher education R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients, by highest degree granted and institutional control: FY 2016

(Dollars in thousands)

Type of institution All R&D expenditures R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients
Total To higher education subrecipients To businesses To nonprofit organizations To other subrecipients
Total R&D, all institutions 71,833,308 5,733,598 3,149,593 930,713 1,066,841 586,451
Doctorate 70,768,127 5,694,996 3,126,165 922,438 1,062,357 584,036
Nondoctorate 1,065,181 38,602 23,428 8,275 4,484 2,415
Public 47,147,814 3,555,996 2,019,386 616,313 560,213 360,084
Private 24,685,494 2,177,602 1,130,207 314,400 506,628 226,367
Federally financed R&D, all institutions 38,793,542 4,870,704 2,795,865 736,381 885,367 453,091
Doctorate 38,347,256 4,839,600 2,775,449 730,986 881,951 451,214
Nondoctorate 446,286 31,104 20,416 5,395 3,416 1,877
Public 23,947,624 3,044,561 1,773,764 519,164 464,032 287,601
Private 14,845,918 1,826,143 1,022,101 217,217 421,335 165,490
NOTE: This table includes only institutions reporting $1 million or more in total R&D expenditures in FY 2015. Institutions reporting less than $1 million in total R&D expenditures in FY 2015 completed a shorter version of the survey form in FY 2016, and that form only requested R&D expenditures passed to higher education institutions. For a listing of R&D expenditures passed to higher education institutions at institutions completing the shorter version of the survey, see table 84.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, FY 2016.