Desert Research Institute

Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total R&D expenditures | |||||||||
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Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2023 | 278 | 54.4 | 602 | 263 | 71.6 | 914 | ||||||
2022 | 257 | 71.8 | 900 | |||||||||
2021 | 275 | 53.4 | 583 | 248 | 73 | 908 | ||||||
2020 | 248 | 73.3 | 916 | |||||||||
2019 | 272 | 54.4 | 589 | 246 | 73.4 | 914 | ||||||
2018 | 240 | 74 | 911 | |||||||||
2017 | 271 | 53.4 | 575 | 235 | 74.2 | 898 | ||||||
2016 | 233 | 74.3 | 896 | |||||||||
2015 | 272 | 52.8 | 570 | 256 | 71.9 | 898 | ||||||
2014 | 245 | 72.8 | 889 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data

Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 30,716 | 28,478 | 26,365 | 26,428 | 26,991 | 27,875 | 29,440 | 29,422 | 22,103 | 23,778 | ||||||||||
Science | 30,716 | 28,478 | 26,365 | 26,428 | 26,991 | 27,875 | 29,440 | 29,422 | 22,103 | 23,778 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 42 | 43 | 1,998 | 892 | 116 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 27,742 | 24,804 | 22,791 | 22,889 | 23,991 | 24,601 | 26,941 | 27,271 | 20,583 | 21,929 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 7,405 | 5,625 | 5,410 | 5,832 | 5,877 | 6,043 | 9,402 | 9,279 | 6,424 | 5,894 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 20,052 | 19,179 | 17,381 | 17,057 | 18,114 | 18,558 | 17,539 | 17,992 | 14,159 | 16,035 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 285 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 2,974 | 3,674 | 3,574 | 3,539 | 2,993 | 3,232 | 2,432 | 107 | 455 | 1,700 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2,974 | 3,674 | 3,574 | 3,539 | 2,993 | 3,232 | 2,432 | 107 | 455 | 855 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 845 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 46 | 173 | 33 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 46 | 173 | 33 | ||||||||||
Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
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 | 30,716 | 20,061 | 1,657 | 4,378 | 802 | 2,890 | 928 | |||||||
Science | 30,716 | 20,061 | 1,657 | 4,378 | 802 | 2,890 | 928 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 27,742 | 20,061 | 1,657 | 3,811 | 802 | 483 | 928 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 7,405 | 5,084 | 722 | 869 | 460 | 45 | 225 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 20,052 | 14,977 | 694 | 2,900 | 342 | 438 | 701 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 285 | 0 | 241 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
Life sciences | 2,974 | 0 | 0 | 567 | 0 | 2,407 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2,974 | 0 | 0 | 567 | 0 | 2,407 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 20,061 | 17,341 | 16,641 | 15,791 | 16,745 | 17,911 | 18,839 | 18,883 | 16,511 | 19,932 | ||||||||||
DOD | 3,508 | 4,027 | 4,626 | 5,097 | 4,466 | 3,720 | 3,112 | 1,866 | 2,096 | 3,957 | ||||||||||
DOE | 6,210 | 5,524 | 5,701 | 5,184 | 5,795 | 6,246 | 8,382 | 7,970 | 5,574 | 7,207 | ||||||||||
HHS | 1,174 | 761 | 425 | 308 | 177 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
NASA | 1,376 | 1,321 | 956 | 1,375 | 1,582 | 1,736 | 854 | 1,225 | 1,322 | 1,342 | ||||||||||
NSF | 2,628 | 2,069 | 1,557 | 1,163 | 1,367 | 2,315 | 2,310 | 3,190 | 3,528 | 3,804 | ||||||||||
USDA | 1,080 | 958 | 876 | 634 | 1,097 | 1,363 | 1,522 | 1,070 | 938 | 1,019 | ||||||||||
Other | 4,085 | 2,681 | 2,500 | 2,030 | 2,261 | 2,339 | 2,659 | 3,562 | 3,053 | 2,603 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Year | ||||||||
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2023 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2022 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2021 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2020 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2019 | 374 | 83 | 291 | . | ||||
2018 | 407 | 85 | 322 | . | ||||
2017 | 383 | 113 | 270 | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Field, medical school space, and research animal space | 2023 | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | |||||
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All research space | 136 | 136 | 136 | 136 | 136 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 20 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 22 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||
Engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 87 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 90 | |||||
Health sciences | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Social sciences | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field, medical school space, and research animal space | Planned to start in FY 2024 or FY 2025 | Started in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | |||||
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All research space | 5,075 | 473 | 250 | 520 | 0 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5,075 | 473 | 250 | 520 | 0 | |||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.