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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 2018

(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 79,285,866 6,344,005 3,538,078 1,059,764 1,102,866 643,297
Doctorate 78,618,139 6,313,999 3,517,289 1,057,219 1,099,315 640,176
Nondoctorate 667,727 30,006 20,789 2,545 3,551 3,121
Public 52,138,502 3,939,196 2,268,906 707,681 560,149 402,460
Private 27,147,364 2,404,809 1,269,172 352,083 542,717 240,837
Federally financed R&D, all institutions 41,945,082 5,292,707 3,082,062 825,140 914,798 470,707
Doctorate 41,585,730 5,267,360 3,063,144 823,832 912,486 467,898
Nondoctorate 359,352 25,347 18,918 1,308 2,312 2,809
Public 25,930,482 3,326,387 1,966,222 587,634 457,701 314,830
Private 16,014,600 1,966,320 1,115,840 237,506 457,097 155,877
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 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 Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, FY 2018.