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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 2017

(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 75,174,941 5,917,952 3,324,507 930,455 1,084,976 578,014
Doctorate 74,465,872 5,886,488 3,306,400 924,837 1,079,939 575,312
Nondoctorate 709,069 31,464 18,107 5,618 5,037 2,702
Public 49,319,925 3,659,394 2,116,716 629,642 545,537 367,499
Private 25,855,016 2,258,558 1,207,791 300,813 539,439 210,515
Federally financed R&D, all institutions 40,237,645 4,952,889 2,901,996 715,133 897,473 438,287
Doctorate 39,853,359 4,927,228 2,885,379 712,364 893,389 436,096
Nondoctorate 384,286 25,661 16,617 2,769 4,084 2,191
Public 24,816,370 3,082,232 1,830,728 506,262 447,909 297,333
Private 15,421,275 1,870,657 1,071,268 208,871 449,564 140,954
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 requested R&D expenditures passed through only to higher education institutions. For a list of R&D expenditures passed through 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 2017.