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Table 13. Federally financed higher education R&D expenditures, by federal agency and R&D field: FY 2017

(Dollars in thousands)

Field All federal R&D expenditures DOD DOE HHS NASA NSF USDA Othera
All R&D fields 40,237,645 5,635,977 1,816,053 21,623,276 1,405,409 5,208,286 1,223,095 3,325,549
Science 32,181,878 2,743,488 1,086,786 20,675,501 949,909 3,631,718 1,108,287 1,986,189
Computer and information sciences 1,496,593 609,108 50,869 88,000 18,410 616,721 4,295 109,190
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 2,043,970 244,248 103,007 55,428 358,482 677,933 42,258 562,614
Atmospheric science and meteorology 503,531 46,935 25,912 2,330 124,041 80,583 3,710 220,020
Geological and earth sciences 687,222 71,846 57,616 7,753 180,402 250,343 26,311 92,951
Ocean sciences and marine sciences 656,741 107,082 6,722 6,671 37,201 290,571 2,466 206,028
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, nec 196,476 18,385 12,757 38,674 16,838 56,436 9,771 43,615
Life sciences 22,741,395 1,043,241 165,267 18,985,653 73,048 751,131 985,775 737,280
Agricultural sciences 980,108 11,235 29,383 59,700 9,259 82,300 625,226 163,005
Biological and biomedical sciences 8,186,264 327,455 84,506 6,827,661 29,349 521,743 194,283 201,267
Health sciences 12,670,933 669,684 12,447 11,574,918 27,919 62,628 64,639 258,698
Natural resources and conservation 270,059 7,256 24,689 13,436 6,121 54,317 82,842 81,398
Life sciences, nec 634,031 27,611 14,242 509,938 400 30,143 18,785 32,912
Mathematics and statistics 437,227 106,129 11,022 57,449 4,291 222,824 4,601 30,911
Physical sciences 3,379,321 519,277 732,003 539,326 460,569 1,024,035 7,353 96,758
Astronomy and astrophysics 441,944 10,974 16,531 183 292,238 109,834 1,613 10,571
Chemistry 1,098,431 135,432 127,783 463,104 14,749 333,726 3,799 19,838
Materials science 142,464 57,141 24,388 8,097 3,498 39,619 121 9,600
Physics 1,543,233 282,281 536,381 57,449 123,986 495,478 1,404 46,254
Physical sciences, nec 153,249 33,449 26,920 10,493 26,098 45,378 416 10,495
Psychology 761,049 58,549 625 503,322 21,173 78,308 7,107 91,965
Social sciences 927,572 79,580 8,849 343,945 10,583 153,655 48,208 282,752
Anthropology 38,548 2,887 1,056 9,421 394 17,787 1,273 5,730
Economics 110,633 4,166 1,317 40,761 81 20,934 19,546 23,828
Political science and government 100,126 14,463 2,962 23,422 898 26,343 1,965 30,073
Sociology, demography, and population studies 280,623 20,822 1,370 118,019 309 31,789 11,854 96,460
Social sciences, nec 397,642 37,242 2,144 152,322 8,901 56,802 13,570 126,661
Sciences, nec 394,751 83,356 15,144 102,378 3,353 107,111 8,690 74,719
Engineering 6,809,025 2,810,162 722,210 693,506 445,575 1,288,126 70,302 779,144
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 659,834 401,246 23,216 2,820 145,207 25,409 277 61,659
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 726,031 166,187 32,202 399,291 5,241 81,100 19,306 22,704
Chemical engineering 471,862 92,571 120,230 77,944 7,244 142,654 4,636 26,583
Civil engineering 556,875 54,519 49,814 22,017 14,352 140,682 9,840 265,651
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering 1,891,492 1,067,847 111,071 62,160 120,095 411,399 2,202 116,718
Industrial and manufacturing engineering 181,506 76,032 21,735 8,427 4,989 32,982 819 36,522
Mechanical engineering 938,158 424,436 118,192 55,569 65,840 191,024 3,631 79,466
Metallurgical and materials engineering 441,399 178,635 86,271 17,362 10,411 98,189 2,077 48,454
Engineering, nec 941,868 348,689 159,479 47,916 72,196 164,687 27,514 121,387
Non-S&E 1,246,742 82,327 7,057 254,269 9,925 288,442 44,506 560,216
Business management and business administration 69,120 11,161 1,342 5,959 872 15,766 1,545 32,475
Communication and communications technologies 61,268 8,428 1,926 19,241 667 21,814 758 8,434
Education 645,652 12,726 276 61,476 7,450 198,050 6,484 359,190
Humanities 58,939 7,333 1,319 9,759 2 15,528 263 24,735
Law 33,043 789 97 7,826 2 2,027 856 21,446
Social work 110,797 3,643 0 94,502 0 385 820 11,447
Visual and performing arts 8,333 503 54 739 64 2,000 123 4,850
Non-S&E, nec 259,590 37,744 2,043 54,767 868 32,872 33,657 97,639
DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NSF = National Science Foundation; nec = not elsewhere classified; S&E = science and engineering; USDA = Department of Agriculture.
a Includes all other agencies reported.
NOTE: This table includes only institutions reporting $1 million or more in total R&D expenditures in FY 2016. Institutions reporting less than $1 million in total R&D expenditures in FY 2016 completed a shorter version of the survey form in FY 2017 that did not collect federally financed R&D expenditures by source and detailed field. For federally financed R&D expenditures by major field at institutions completing the shorter version of the survey, see table 83.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, FY 2017.