University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total federal obligations | Total R&D expenditures | ||||||||
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Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2017 | 16 | 2.6 | 902 | |||||||||
2016 | 17 | 2.8 | 896 | |||||||||
2015 | 18 | 2.9 | 898 | |||||||||
2014 | 16 | 2.7 | 888 | |||||||||
2013 | 14 | 2.5 | 885 | |||||||||
2012 | 12 | 2.2 | 893 | |||||||||
2011 | 10 | 2 | 911 | |||||||||
2010 | 11 | 2.3 | 742 | |||||||||
2009 | 22 | 3.9 | 708 | |||||||||
2008 | 20 | 3.7 | 690 | |||||||||
2007 | ||||||||||||
2006 |
NOTES:
- 1. Grayed cells indicate data not yet available or data outside the 10-year span for these rankings. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
Data

Field | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 939,706 | 889,793 | 861,205 | 856,806 | 872,736 | 866,638 | 899,386 | 822,491 | 629,088 | 599,800 | ||||||||||
Science | 886,397 | 839,126 | 815,240 | 799,659 | 809,689 | 808,626 | 847,412 | 775,086 | 597,432 | 573,656 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 9,032 | 9,268 | 6,745 | 6,769 | 6,800 | 6,951 | 7,232 | 6,408 | 6,211 | 5,176 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13,116 | 12,513 | 13,683 | 11,831 | 10,137 | 9,552 | 10,803 | 11,947 | 1,886 | 1,640 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 2,884 | 2,187 | 3,959 | 3,112 | 2,563 | 1,847 | 2,059 | 2,096 | 1,886 | 1,640 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, nec | 10,232 | 10,326 | 9,724 | 8,719 | 7,574 | 7,705 | 8,744 | 9,851 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 789,050 | 747,123 | 733,926 | 722,739 | 729,613 | 738,999 | 770,233 | 699,640 | 544,425 | 523,296 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 255,233 | 237,446 | 158,883 | 160,023 | 163,216 | 168,506 | 171,284 | 62,853 | 17,350 | 17,845 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 533,779 | 509,666 | 541,662 | 523,245 | 534,201 | 539,056 | 568,715 | 615,792 | 512,408 | 491,881 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | ||||||||||
Life sciences, nec | 38 | 11 | 33,381 | 39,471 | 32,196 | 31,437 | 30,234 | 20,995 | 14,667 | 13,570 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3,320 | 3,241 | 2,980 | 3,698 | 4,484 | 3,886 | 4,123 | 4,114 | 2,420 | 1,740 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 32,546 | 29,135 | 27,229 | 27,198 | 30,016 | 24,841 | 28,579 | 24,666 | 19,794 | 21,382 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 4,175 | 3,557 | 2,825 | 2,865 | 2,099 | 2,163 | 1,940 | 397 | 618 | 784 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 19,075 | 14,999 | 13,317 | 14,565 | 17,116 | 15,929 | 18,082 | 16,002 | 12,392 | 14,528 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | ||||||||||
Physics | 9,296 | 10,579 | 11,087 | 9,768 | 10,801 | 6,749 | 8,557 | 6,406 | 6,274 | 5,609 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,861 | 510 | 461 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 21,224 | 22,458 | 16,920 | 14,337 | 10,908 | 9,905 | 9,787 | 9,183 | 7,894 | 7,504 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 5,129 | 4,174 | 3,336 | 4,587 | 4,044 | 3,926 | 4,783 | 5,936 | 3,824 | 4,107 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 165 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | ||||||||||
Economics | 835 | 180 | 231 | 557 | 457 | 342 | 396 | 236 | 506 | 500 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,795 | 2,065 | 1,479 | 1,104 | 666 | 527 | 1,109 | 905 | 775 | 1,022 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 107 | 202 | 538 | 491 | 235 | 292 | 225 | 114 | 715 | 496 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, nec | 2,227 | 1,559 | 1,088 | 2,435 | 2,686 | 2,765 | 3,053 | 4,681 | 1,828 | 2,089 | ||||||||||
Sciences, nec | 12,980 | 11,214 | 10,421 | 8,500 | 13,687 | 10,566 | 11,872 | 13,192 | 10,978 | 8,811 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 43,801 | 41,382 | 37,093 | 36,179 | 36,867 | 31,167 | 33,013 | 30,928 | 25,915 | 21,971 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 13,247 | 11,074 | 11,025 | 10,741 | 11,898 | 10,220 | 10,425 | 8,454 | 7,519 | 6,633 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 7,626 | 7,698 | 7,022 | 6,577 | 6,194 | 6,830 | 6,507 | 5,674 | 5,040 | 5,412 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 3,009 | 3,067 | 3,092 | 3,875 | 2,715 | 2,170 | 3,382 | 3,681 | 2,876 | 1,642 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 6,073 | 5,496 | 5,341 | 4,699 | 4,194 | 3,130 | 2,436 | 3,414 | 1,787 | 1,818 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 3,377 | 3,043 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 6,452 | 4,444 | 4,964 | 4,529 | 6,276 | 4,951 | 5,711 | 6,088 | 5,350 | 3,611 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 21 | 230 | 322 | 644 | ||||||||||
Engineering, nec | 4,017 | 6,560 | 5,649 | 5,758 | 5,590 | 3,837 | 4,531 | 3,387 | 3,021 | 2,211 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 9,508 | 9,285 | 8,872 | 20,968 | 26,180 | 26,845 | 18,961 | 16,477 | 5,741 | 4,173 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 1,303 | 965 | 914 | 1,236 | 1,033 | 1,076 | 770 | 470 | 630 | 309 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 6 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | ||||||||||
Education | 4,668 | 4,419 | 4,221 | 6,235 | 11,674 | 10,405 | 5,798 | 5,365 | 4,445 | 3,398 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 331 | 467 | 260 | 918 | 921 | 122 | 173 | 190 | 448 | 353 | ||||||||||
Law | 138 | 144 | 33 | 69 | 60 | 216 | 524 | 184 | 212 | 86 | ||||||||||
Social work | 1,382 | 1,312 | 1,244 | 9,651 | 10,259 | 9,431 | 10,816 | 10,266 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, nec | 1,671 | 1,943 | 2,192 | 2,856 | 2,208 | 5,534 | 877 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
Field | All R&D expenditures | Federal government | State and local government | Institution funds | Business | Nonprofit organizations | All other sources | |||||||
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All R&D fields | 939,706 | 617,884 | 9,211 | 157,369 | 18,667 | 49,502 | 87,073 | |||||||
Science | 886,397 | 585,525 | 9,046 | 144,679 | 17,295 | 46,225 | 83,627 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 9,032 | 5,656 | 0 | 2,870 | 77 | 240 | 189 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13,116 | 9,002 | 0 | 3,520 | 76 | 494 | 24 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 2,884 | 1,413 | 0 | 1,333 | 0 | 114 | 24 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, nec | 10,232 | 7,589 | 0 | 2,187 | 76 | 380 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 789,050 | 522,710 | 8,597 | 115,230 | 16,966 | 42,969 | 82,578 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 255,233 | 176,416 | 3,100 | 32,537 | 6,832 | 14,133 | 22,215 | |||||||
Health sciences | 533,779 | 346,257 | 5,497 | 82,692 | 10,134 | 28,836 | 60,363 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, nec | 38 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3,320 | 2,033 | 0 | 1,060 | 0 | 185 | 42 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 32,546 | 17,200 | 0 | 14,376 | 152 | 803 | 15 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 4,175 | 1,433 | 0 | 2,319 | 0 | 423 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 19,075 | 9,138 | 0 | 9,390 | 152 | 380 | 15 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 9,296 | 6,629 | 0 | 2,667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 21,224 | 19,209 | 28 | 1,739 | 24 | 175 | 49 | |||||||
Social sciences | 5,129 | 2,948 | 402 | 919 | 0 | 424 | 436 | |||||||
Anthropology | 165 | 80 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 44 | |||||||
Economics | 835 | 276 | 0 | 383 | 0 | 0 | 176 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,795 | 1,436 | 0 | 196 | 0 | 68 | 95 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 107 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 55 | |||||||
Social sciences, nec | 2,227 | 1,156 | 402 | 249 | 0 | 354 | 66 | |||||||
Sciences, nec | 12,980 | 6,767 | 19 | 4,965 | 0 | 935 | 294 | |||||||
Engineering | 43,801 | 27,229 | 118 | 10,856 | 1,267 | 1,353 | 2,978 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 13,247 | 9,662 | 31 | 2,341 | 149 | 803 | 261 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 7,626 | 5,219 | 0 | 1,018 | 493 | 393 | 503 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 3,009 | 1,684 | 0 | 815 | 343 | 7 | 160 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 6,073 | 2,790 | 87 | 1,677 | 146 | 84 | 1,289 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 3,377 | 2,697 | 0 | 625 | 0 | 8 | 47 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 6,452 | 5,177 | 0 | 1,066 | 136 | 58 | 15 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering, nec | 4,017 | 0 | 0 | 3,314 | 0 | 0 | 703 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 9,508 | 5,130 | 47 | 1,834 | 105 | 1,924 | 468 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 1,303 | 702 | 0 | 69 | 0 | 335 | 197 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 4,668 | 2,440 | 27 | 1,046 | 105 | 1,015 | 35 | |||||||
Humanities | 331 | 54 | 0 | 126 | 0 | 90 | 61 | |||||||
Law | 138 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 125 | |||||||
Social work | 1,382 | 786 | 20 | 126 | 0 | 400 | 50 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, nec | 1,671 | 1,148 | 0 | 452 | 0 | 71 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
Source of funds | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||||||
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All agencies | 617,884 | 580,650 | 561,210 | 582,136 | 622,232 | 637,857 | 662,471 | 594,675 | 463,192 | 456,172 | ||||||||||
Department of Agriculture | 136 | 84 | 107 | 310 | 164 | 262 | 210 | 228 | 428 | 311 | ||||||||||
Department of Defense | 46,573 | 42,008 | 39,566 | 36,862 | 44,546 | 38,776 | 33,284 | 27,175 | 14,026 | 19,522 | ||||||||||
Department of Energy | 8,638 | 7,837 | 9,269 | 9,340 | 9,411 | 8,105 | 9,055 | 8,249 | 3,123 | 2,779 | ||||||||||
Department of Health and Human Services (including NIH) | 521,398 | 492,151 | 472,159 | 488,791 | 518,918 | 543,269 | 575,847 | 516,448 | 362,634 | 359,663 | ||||||||||
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1,259 | 976 | 824 | 1,040 | 760 | 1,023 | 829 | 380 | 609 | 575 | ||||||||||
National Science Foundation | 25,703 | 24,918 | 25,861 | 25,880 | 27,679 | 26,898 | 27,275 | 24,499 | 16,313 | 15,343 | ||||||||||
Other Agencies | 14,177 | 12,676 | 13,424 | 19,913 | 20,754 | 19,524 | 15,971 | 17,696 | 66,059 | 57,979 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
Year | Total | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | ||||
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2017 | 10,174 | 1,947 | 8,227 | . | ||||
2016 | 9,049 | 1,856 | 7,193 | . | ||||
2015 | 9,681 | 1,703 | 7,978 | 581 | ||||
2014 | 9,996 | 1,837 | 8,159 | 631 | ||||
2013 | 10,257 | 1,762 | 8,495 | 658 | ||||
2012 | 10,574 | 1,618 | 8,956 | 836 | ||||
2011 | 8,786 | 1,533 | 7,253 | 708 |