Benedict C.

Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total R&D expenditures | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2023 | 572 | 5.9 | 602 | 558 | 39.6 | 914 | ||||||
2022 | 651 | 28.4 | 900 | |||||||||
2021 | 694 | 24.4 | 908 | |||||||||
2020 | 709 | 23.4 | 916 | |||||||||
2019 | 553 | 7.1 | 589 | 616 | 33.3 | 914 | ||||||
2018 | 540 | 41.4 | 911 | |||||||||
2017 | 542 | 6.7 | 575 | 556 | 38.8 | 898 | ||||||
2016 | 551 | 39.2 | 896 | |||||||||
2015 | 533 | 7.4 | 570 | 578 | 36.3 | 898 | ||||||
2014 | 482 | 46.4 | 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 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All R&D fields | 2,307 | 1,059 | 745 | 649 | 1,269 | 1,934 | 1,676 | 1,653 | 1,373 | 2,479 | ||||||||||
Science | 879 | 692 | 481 | 399 | 1,017 | 1,570 | 1,223 | 1,229 | 1,046 | 1,433 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 189 | 21 | 53 | 98 | 276 | 279 | 259 | 216 | 75 | 38 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 248 | 52 | 66 | 157 | 532 | 439 | 359 | 498 | 701 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 532 | 439 | 359 | 498 | 701 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 354 | 259 | 230 | 45 | 158 | 146 | 136 | 170 | 126 | 156 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 158 | 146 | 136 | 170 | 124 | 128 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 187 | 22 | 24 | 44 | 52 | 95 | 75 | 112 | 61 | 38 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 149 | 142 | 122 | 146 | 374 | 518 | 314 | 372 | 286 | 500 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 149 | 0 | 0 | 146 | 374 | 518 | 314 | 372 | 286 | 500 | ||||||||||
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 0 | 367 | 264 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 1,428 | 367 | 264 | 248 | 252 | 364 | 453 | 424 | 327 | 1,046 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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 | 968 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 219 | 0 | 0 | 248 | 252 | 364 | 450 | 424 | 327 | 1,046 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 241 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All R&D fields | 2,307 | 1,665 | 0 | 0 | 635 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
Science | 879 | 850 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 189 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 354 | 354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 354 | 354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 187 | 187 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 149 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 149 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 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 | 1,428 | 815 | 0 | 0 | 613 | 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 | 968 | 465 | 0 | 0 | 503 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 219 | 219 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 241 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 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 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Federal Agencies | 1,665 | . | . | 635 | 1,226 | 1,889 | 1,634 | 1,621 | 1,373 | 2,443 | ||||||||||
DOD | 0 | . | . | 0 | 44 | 324 | 133 | 172 | 189 | 936 | ||||||||||
DOE | 467 | . | . | 81 | 594 | 764 | 800 | 649 | 646 | 1,067 | ||||||||||
HHS | 299 | . | . | 9 | 109 | 93 | 38 | 17 | 59 | 98 | ||||||||||
NASA | 116 | . | . | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
NSF | 316 | . | . | 123 | 313 | 528 | 530 | 677 | 360 | 228 | ||||||||||
USDA | 0 | . | . | 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other | 467 | . | . | 254 | 164 | 179 | 127 | 99 | 119 | 112 |
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 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2022 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2021 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2020 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2019 | 31 | 11 | 20 | . | ||||
2018 | 72 | 16 | 56 | . | ||||
2017 | 81 | 14 | 67 | . |
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 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 11 | . | 11 | 11 | 10 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3 | . | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 2 | . | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Engineering | 3 | . | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Health sciences | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Physical sciences | 3 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Psychology | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Social sciences | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Other | 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 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Engineering | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Other | 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.