Franklin and Marshall C.

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 | |
2021 | 257 | 44.6 | 583 | 458 | 50.8 | 909 | ||||||
2020 | 453 | 50 | 915 | |||||||||
2019 | 261 | 44.8 | 589 | 409 | 45.3 | 913 | ||||||
2018 | 414 | 46 | 910 | |||||||||
2017 | 256 | 45 | 575 | 416 | 46.8 | 897 | ||||||
2016 | 424 | 47.8 | 895 | |||||||||
2015 | 256 | 45.4 | 570 | 420 | 47.3 | 897 | ||||||
2014 | 447 | 50.8 | 887 | |||||||||
2013 | 252 | 43.3 | 588 | 435 | 49.7 | 884 | ||||||
2012 | 464 | 52.4 | 892 |
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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 3,722 | 3,623 | 5,041 | 4,769 | 4,385 | 3,772 | 3,888 | 3,105 | 3,475 | 2,997 | ||||||||||
Science | 2,199 | 1,919 | 3,092 | 2,911 | 2,876 | 2,447 | 2,881 | 2,123 | 2,855 | 2,543 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 70 | 7 | 90 | 140 | 359 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 119 | 232 | 710 | 355 | 215 | 204 | 309 | 287 | 245 | 255 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 92 | 162 | 485 | 200 | 215 | 204 | 309 | 220 | 194 | 221 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 70 | 225 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 51 | 34 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 840 | 578 | 815 | 730 | 975 | 729 | 1,111 | 637 | 1,025 | 844 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 677 | 572 | 745 | 709 | 962 | 625 | 976 | 637 | 1,025 | 844 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 163 | 6 | 58 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 50 | 52 | 255 | 252 | 176 | 18 | 9 | 152 | 194 | 84 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 660 | 539 | 722 | 994 | 635 | 465 | 515 | 760 | 721 | 1,043 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 60 | 55 | 67 | 87 | 80 | 113 | 15 | 188 | 232 | 158 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 444 | 406 | 533 | 780 | 411 | 288 | 236 | 547 | 489 | 834 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 156 | 78 | 122 | 127 | 144 | 64 | 27 | 25 | 0 | 51 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 80 | 68 | 197 | 267 | 212 | 48 | 38 | 131 | 414 | 89 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 376 | 440 | 297 | 156 | 167 | 60 | 898 | 154 | 256 | 228 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 12 | 10 | 39 | 10 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 7 | 25 | 23 | 48 | 22 | 6 | 36 | 20 | 40 | 16 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 90 | 67 | 83 | 61 | 42 | 6 | 848 | 48 | 181 | 47 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 14 | 314 | 152 | 37 | 83 | 45 | 9 | 62 | 35 | 165 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 253 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 137 | 881 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164 | 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 not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 1,523 | 1,704 | 1,949 | 1,858 | 1,509 | 1,325 | 843 | 982 | 620 | 454 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 21 | 38 | 131 | 114 | 75 | 93 | 3 | 58 | 91 | 42 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 209 | 200 | 321 | 303 | 301 | 210 | 279 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 90 | 149 | 237 | 240 | 105 | 69 | 90 | 827 | 460 | 358 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 49 | 62 | 91 | 83 | 43 | 10 | 34 | 75 | 69 | 54 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,136 | 1,255 | 1,169 | 1,116 | 985 | 943 | 437 | 22 | 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 | 3,722 | 1,363 | 209 | 1,622 | 279 | 61 | 188 | |||||||
Science | 2,199 | 1,363 | 0 | 593 | 0 | 61 | 182 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 70 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 119 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 102 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 92 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 75 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | |||||||
Life sciences | 840 | 676 | 0 | 146 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 677 | 584 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Health sciences | 163 | 92 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 50 | 47 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 660 | 415 | 0 | 174 | 0 | 47 | 24 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 60 | 27 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 444 | 292 | 0 | 85 | 0 | 47 | 20 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 156 | 96 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 80 | 9 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 7 | 10 | |||||||
Social sciences | 376 | 216 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 7 | 28 | |||||||
Anthropology | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 90 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 7 | 15 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 14 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 253 | 216 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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 not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 1,523 | 0 | 209 | 1,029 | 279 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 209 | 0 | 209 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 90 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 18 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 49 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,136 | 0 | 0 | 857 | 279 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 1,363 | 1,202 | 1,582 | 1,760 | 1,732 | 955 | 1,017 | 889 | 879 | 1,116 | ||||||||||
DOD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 66 | 67 | 51 | 33 | ||||||||||
DOE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
HHS | 567 | 397 | 464 | 669 | 490 | 351 | 321 | 316 | 213 | 91 | ||||||||||
NASA | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 2 | ||||||||||
NSF | 574 | 520 | 1,001 | 1,047 | 1,216 | 468 | 551 | 450 | 538 | 947 | ||||||||||
USDA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 104 | 44 | 33 | 65 | 43 | ||||||||||
Other | 216 | 279 | 112 | 32 | 19 | 10 | 26 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
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 | All personnel | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | |||
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2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 341 | 38 | 303 | . | |||
2018 | 335 | 27 | 308 | . | |||
2017 | 286 | 24 | 262 | . | |||
2016 | 323 | 28 | 295 | . | |||
2015 | 336 | 20 | 316 | 0 |
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 | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | 2013 |
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All research space | 156 | 154 | 154 | 154 | 154 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
Computer and information sciences | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Natural resources and conservation | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | . |
Physical sciences | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
Psychology | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
Social sciences | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
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 | Planned to start 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 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
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All research space | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.