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Table 13. Federally financed higher education R&D expenditures, by federal agency and R&D field: FY 2018

(Dollars in thousands)

Field All federal R&D expenditures DOD DOE HHS NASA NSF USDA Othera
All R&D fields 41,945,082 5,900,829 1,819,663 22,922,192 1,516,983 5,273,511 1,185,986 3,325,918
Science 33,611,757 2,900,810 1,088,949 21,887,197 1,057,203 3,673,982 1,072,035 1,931,581
Computer and information sciences 1,630,640 712,714 53,029 107,077 21,879 624,675 6,313 104,953
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 2,048,581 218,767 90,998 61,324 402,199 692,072 44,040 539,181
Atmospheric science and meteorology 485,737 51,315 22,471 4,699 146,664 84,540 2,179 173,869
Geological and earth sciences 699,305 64,152 49,415 7,290 201,991 254,052 28,464 93,941
Ocean sciences and marine sciences 648,156 83,206 8,685 7,490 38,407 306,921 2,794 200,653
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, nec 215,383 20,094 10,427 41,845 15,137 46,559 10,603 70,718
Life sciences 23,947,015 1,145,539 196,103 20,114,782 77,989 750,333 954,452 707,817
Agricultural sciences 956,060 14,822 27,333 62,887 7,812 80,773 629,515 132,918
Biological and biomedical sciences 8,589,048 354,311 106,202 7,203,773 29,797 520,915 169,209 204,841
Health sciences 13,453,146 719,972 9,641 12,325,728 31,524 68,016 52,984 245,281
Natural resources and conservation 314,948 26,642 39,331 14,477 8,302 50,253 84,595 91,348
Life sciences, nec 633,813 29,792 13,596 507,917 554 30,376 18,149 33,429
Mathematics and statistics 457,150 116,451 11,616 57,516 4,039 224,830 4,469 38,229
Physical sciences 3,471,660 519,821 713,750 579,699 510,622 1,044,270 6,686 96,812
Astronomy and astrophysics 454,394 11,754 15,925 683 308,184 110,996 1,061 5,791
Chemistry 1,136,317 126,166 131,055 488,003 17,734 343,687 4,130 25,542
Materials science 162,048 53,824 28,032 22,862 4,385 44,597 215 8,133
Physics 1,564,866 301,266 506,304 56,170 158,677 494,562 736 47,151
Physical sciences, nec 154,035 26,811 32,434 11,981 21,642 50,428 544 10,195
Psychology 761,904 52,061 3,127 518,161 19,934 80,054 7,036 81,531
Social sciences 945,478 76,137 6,252 354,086 14,288 150,284 40,850 303,581
Anthropology 43,407 3,782 975 9,506 120 19,539 2,188 7,297
Economics 102,053 4,864 1,477 36,794 247 18,587 16,550 23,534
Political science and government 98,089 16,650 2,208 22,972 1,135 23,606 1,872 29,646
Sociology, demography, and population studies 285,375 18,968 19 121,774 403 33,112 5,679 105,420
Social sciences, nec 416,554 31,873 1,573 163,040 12,383 55,440 14,561 137,684
Sciences, nec 349,329 59,320 14,074 94,552 6,253 107,464 8,189 59,477
Engineering 7,093,291 2,937,066 724,962 789,278 449,106 1,309,189 70,801 812,889
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 678,087 404,472 21,398 3,045 153,417 28,088 427 67,240
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 787,000 169,016 13,464 472,030 5,561 82,406 18,637 25,886
Chemical engineering 461,674 80,343 114,899 78,850 6,824 142,890 8,693 29,175
Civil engineering 592,396 59,535 73,568 22,808 15,276 146,408 9,803 264,998
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering 1,981,799 1,151,789 122,876 69,568 116,223 398,563 3,320 119,460
Industrial and manufacturing engineering 306,696 147,487 19,809 10,065 19,352 41,769 791 67,423
Mechanical engineering 993,683 456,598 124,614 59,957 68,820 194,904 3,877 84,913
Metallurgical and materials engineering 464,981 182,479 93,352 21,623 12,275 102,720 2,207 50,325
Engineering, nec 826,975 285,347 140,982 51,332 51,358 171,441 23,046 103,469
Non-S&E 1,240,034 62,953 5,752 245,717 10,674 290,340 43,150 581,448
Business management and business administration 71,706 9,194 1,257 5,820 520 16,508 1,008 37,399
Communication and communications technologies 34,279 2,904 107 11,567 702 10,049 870 8,080
Education 673,774 12,792 1,596 64,402 7,893 209,305 4,741 373,045
Humanities 49,997 7,651 520 8,562 2 9,729 84 23,449
Law 51,134 542 429 21,162 23 1,417 269 27,292
Social work 114,073 3,208 0 94,147 0 344 765 15,609
Visual and performing arts 10,829 879 123 550 6 2,824 209 6,238
Non-S&E, nec 234,242 25,783 1,720 39,507 1,528 40,164 35,204 90,336
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 2017. Institutions reporting less than $1 million in total R&D expenditures in 2017 completed a shorter version of the survey form in FY 2018, and that form 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 Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, FY 2018.