Pennsylvania State U., The, University Park and Hershey Medical Center
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 | |
2022 | 28 | 97 | 890 | |||||||||
2021 | 19 | 96.9 | 583 | 26 | 97.3 | 907 | ||||||
2020 | 22 | 97.7 | 915 | |||||||||
2019 | 17 | 97.3 | 589 | 23 | 97.6 | 913 | ||||||
2018 | 21 | 97.8 | 910 | |||||||||
2017 | 18 | 97.1 | 575 | 23 | 97.6 | 897 | ||||||
2016 | 21 | 97.8 | 895 | |||||||||
2015 | 12 | 98.1 | 570 | 22 | 97.7 | 897 | ||||||
2014 | 20 | 97.9 | 887 | |||||||||
2013 | 10 | 98.5 | 588 | 17 | 98.2 | 884 |
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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 1,019,940 | 970,544 | 991,923 | 949,679 | 908,708 | 854,815 | 825,561 | 791,031 | 800,773 | 837,880 | ||||||||||
Science | 596,695 | 557,340 | 602,727 | 573,640 | 560,659 | 514,342 | 521,751 | 477,692 | 482,872 | 504,816 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 79,162 | 73,737 | 89,490 | 69,638 | 55,939 | 36,680 | 47,112 | 55,400 | 52,372 | 56,267 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 35,715 | 31,930 | 41,590 | 46,390 | 50,302 | 44,378 | 42,273 | 54,902 | 59,370 | 51,449 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 17,891 | 16,523 | 19,239 | 20,694 | 19,050 | 17,726 | 17,694 | 21,533 | 23,707 | 20,237 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 14,664 | 13,007 | 18,116 | 21,998 | 23,989 | 19,169 | 21,068 | 27,304 | 28,253 | 24,293 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 3,160 | 2,400 | 4,235 | 3,698 | 3,824 | 2,755 | 2,023 | 6,065 | 7,410 | 6,919 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,439 | 4,728 | 1,488 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 319,598 | 291,733 | 291,299 | 266,143 | 280,091 | 260,627 | 261,912 | 241,215 | 250,304 | 272,478 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 85,040 | 79,424 | 100,221 | 95,580 | 100,909 | 86,583 | 87,140 | 86,469 | 87,278 | 98,418 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 105,362 | 112,135 | 98,382 | 84,873 | 90,168 | 80,560 | 80,497 | 52,860 | 58,382 | 62,199 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 118,266 | 91,303 | 90,967 | 84,968 | 88,833 | 92,705 | 90,904 | 101,886 | 104,644 | 111,861 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 10,930 | 8,871 | 1,729 | 722 | 181 | 779 | 3,371 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 17,140 | 14,090 | 17,706 | 25,057 | 19,251 | 16,451 | 34,141 | 12,424 | 10,880 | 11,930 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 73,580 | 89,035 | 94,201 | 99,485 | 93,913 | 87,175 | 72,314 | 51,598 | 51,811 | 56,482 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 14,227 | 13,659 | 15,788 | 20,021 | 16,678 | 16,124 | 11,043 | 10,696 | 10,150 | 9,418 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 15,578 | 16,923 | 17,696 | 18,532 | 18,013 | 17,085 | 18,248 | 18,141 | 17,339 | 18,213 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 22,202 | 38,139 | 34,436 | 34,258 | 33,043 | 31,675 | 22,906 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 21,573 | 20,314 | 26,281 | 26,674 | 26,179 | 22,291 | 20,117 | 22,761 | 24,322 | 28,851 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 30,225 | 29,685 | 40,599 | 38,984 | 30,520 | 27,175 | 22,464 | 24,406 | 23,476 | 28,526 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 41,275 | 27,130 | 27,842 | 27,943 | 30,643 | 41,313 | 41,232 | 37,747 | 34,659 | 27,684 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 559 | 424 | 2,331 | 3,617 | 2,621 | 3,521 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 6,662 | 4,478 | 1,611 | 1,511 | 3,524 | 4,652 | 2,727 | 3,008 | 2,863 | 2,639 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,822 | 1,269 | 930 | 1,005 | 1,470 | 3,219 | 6,094 | 4,683 | 4,424 | 4,235 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 32,232 | 20,959 | 22,970 | 21,810 | 23,028 | 27,591 | 30,130 | 30,056 | 27,372 | 20,810 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,330 | 2,220 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 543 | 303 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 385,594 | 378,667 | 367,730 | 350,391 | 325,002 | 312,341 | 288,234 | 296,692 | 302,833 | 320,195 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 34,060 | 32,084 | 32,250 | 28,351 | 21,446 | 17,991 | 17,610 | 16,509 | 16,853 | 19,564 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 33,997 | 30,144 | 19,563 | 19,077 | 11,220 | 14,980 | 8,067 | 5,925 | 4,665 | 3,045 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 13,450 | 12,167 | 18,370 | 22,879 | 22,319 | 14,778 | 17,012 | 12,445 | 12,033 | 13,124 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 12,444 | 10,826 | 12,155 | 15,740 | 11,578 | 19,160 | 21,981 | 21,558 | 23,399 | 27,391 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 123,291 | 108,919 | 101,850 | 100,673 | 96,377 | 85,424 | 61,089 | 88,443 | 84,761 | 92,773 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 6,773 | 3,459 | 23,296 | 30,168 | 24,149 | 24,213 | 18,398 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 107,002 | 131,856 | 109,852 | 90,336 | 92,912 | 63,667 | 76,086 | 73,514 | 78,650 | 85,906 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 54,577 | 49,212 | 50,394 | 43,167 | 45,001 | 51,565 | 58,483 | 78,298 | 82,472 | 78,392 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20,563 | 9,508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 37,651 | 34,537 | 21,466 | 25,648 | 23,047 | 28,132 | 15,576 | 16,647 | 15,068 | 12,869 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 8,148 | 8,760 | 3,480 | 6,638 | 5,999 | 9,542 | 5,844 | 6,454 | 5,615 | 5,025 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 2,159 | 1,561 | 504 | 510 | 795 | 1,049 | 390 | 427 | 342 | 1,525 | ||||||||||
Education | 18,556 | 16,457 | 10,890 | 11,333 | 10,078 | 10,144 | 5,208 | 3,996 | 4,444 | 2,619 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 5,587 | 5,333 | 5,592 | 5,946 | 5,492 | 3,091 | 3,873 | 5,298 | 4,110 | 3,000 | ||||||||||
Law | 1,703 | 359 | 279 | 541 | 502 | 1,547 | 84 | 211 | 291 | 485 | ||||||||||
Social work | 611 | 1,012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 567 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 887 | 1,055 | 721 | 680 | 181 | 643 | 177 | 261 | 266 | 215 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,549 | 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 | 1,019,940 | 681,159 | 47,345 | 207,630 | 24,121 | 30,128 | 29,557 | |||||||
Science | 596,695 | 363,339 | 40,956 | 126,582 | 15,413 | 23,598 | 26,807 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 79,162 | 62,351 | 6 | 8,828 | 977 | 1,172 | 5,828 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 35,715 | 24,690 | 632 | 7,780 | 666 | 1,545 | 402 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 17,891 | 10,323 | 132 | 6,761 | 52 | 463 | 160 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 14,664 | 11,460 | 500 | 852 | 607 | 1,004 | 241 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 3,160 | 2,907 | 0 | 167 | 7 | 78 | 1 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 319,598 | 163,120 | 36,754 | 75,072 | 11,498 | 14,585 | 18,569 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 85,040 | 29,943 | 30,141 | 14,211 | 907 | 3,687 | 6,151 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 105,362 | 71,191 | 1,135 | 28,968 | 1,443 | 2,412 | 213 | |||||||
Health sciences | 118,266 | 60,184 | 3,264 | 25,203 | 9,139 | 8,333 | 12,143 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 10,930 | 1,802 | 2,214 | 6,690 | 9 | 153 | 62 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 17,140 | 15,402 | 45 | 1,146 | 276 | 271 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 73,580 | 53,722 | 47 | 15,132 | 1,748 | 1,985 | 946 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 14,227 | 10,174 | 0 | 3,389 | 0 | 540 | 124 | |||||||
Chemistry | 15,578 | 13,319 | 2 | 1,435 | 266 | 556 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 22,202 | 12,886 | 0 | 7,299 | 1,160 | 132 | 725 | |||||||
Physics | 21,573 | 17,343 | 45 | 3,009 | 322 | 757 | 97 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 30,225 | 25,948 | 53 | 2,881 | 34 | 1,249 | 60 | |||||||
Social sciences | 41,275 | 18,106 | 3,419 | 15,743 | 214 | 2,791 | 1,002 | |||||||
Anthropology | 559 | 123 | 5 | 161 | 45 | 217 | 8 | |||||||
Economics | 6,662 | 3,962 | 38 | 2,224 | 14 | 420 | 4 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,822 | 575 | 68 | 481 | 43 | 649 | 6 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 32,232 | 13,446 | 3,308 | 12,877 | 112 | 1,505 | 984 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 385,594 | 300,829 | 5,244 | 66,527 | 8,242 | 2,952 | 1,800 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 34,060 | 14,713 | 0 | 19,165 | 76 | 44 | 62 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 33,997 | 13,957 | 57 | 18,371 | 336 | 610 | 666 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 13,450 | 10,634 | 1 | 1,279 | 1,236 | 272 | 28 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 12,444 | 7,832 | 2,187 | 1,427 | 410 | 444 | 144 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 123,291 | 112,295 | 1,311 | 8,444 | 832 | 298 | 111 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 6,773 | 6,065 | 1 | 368 | 198 | 141 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 107,002 | 92,718 | 1,674 | 9,668 | 1,831 | 559 | 552 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 54,577 | 42,615 | 13 | 7,805 | 3,323 | 584 | 237 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 37,651 | 16,991 | 1,145 | 14,521 | 466 | 3,578 | 950 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 8,148 | 3,002 | 860 | 3,530 | 5 | 109 | 642 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 2,159 | 1,426 | 0 | 497 | 2 | 137 | 97 | |||||||
Education | 18,556 | 10,486 | 217 | 5,715 | 427 | 1,639 | 72 | |||||||
Humanities | 5,587 | 1,130 | 51 | 2,837 | 0 | 1,434 | 135 | |||||||
Law | 1,703 | 428 | 8 | 1,263 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||
Social work | 611 | 505 | 9 | 32 | 0 | 65 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 887 | 14 | 0 | 647 | 32 | 194 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 681,159 | 622,532 | 638,930 | 600,489 | 565,348 | 538,164 | 538,938 | 513,410 | 520,574 | 558,871 | ||||||||||
DOD | 274,204 | 263,661 | 330,115 | 300,261 | 268,763 | 213,104 | 215,261 | 207,510 | 209,259 | 224,694 | ||||||||||
DOE | 45,400 | 36,453 | 33,203 | 29,606 | 28,080 | 27,253 | 33,909 | 37,744 | 48,612 | 60,349 | ||||||||||
HHS | 169,289 | 149,293 | 142,227 | 132,733 | 128,098 | 126,632 | 134,205 | 118,760 | 117,770 | 130,688 | ||||||||||
NASA | 18,875 | 15,518 | 17,901 | 18,524 | 17,238 | 15,032 | 13,632 | 12,093 | 12,324 | 14,334 | ||||||||||
NSF | 75,302 | 68,873 | 65,585 | 67,436 | 71,671 | 73,010 | 67,271 | 66,835 | 66,059 | 62,447 | ||||||||||
USDA | 35,157 | 32,604 | 33,490 | 32,342 | 31,264 | 32,848 | 28,893 | 27,691 | 27,033 | 23,788 | ||||||||||
Other | 62,932 | 56,130 | 16,409 | 19,587 | 20,234 | 50,285 | 45,767 | 42,777 | 39,517 | 42,571 |
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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2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 12,559 | 2,456 | 10,103 | i | . | ||
2018 | 11,613 | 2,239 | 9,374 | i | . | ||
2017 | 13,605 | 3,140 | 10,465 | i | . | ||
2016 | 13,322 | 3,017 | 10,305 | i | . |
i=imputed
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 | 2,444 | 2,420 | 2,311 | 2,561 | 2,733 |
Agricultural sciences | 373 | 242 | 242 | 540 | 599 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 534 | 643 | 639 | 632 | 781 |
Computer and information sciences | 20 | 18 | 15 | 36 | 40 |
Engineering | 653 | 672 | 611 | 684 | 684 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 60 | 53 | 68 | 144 | 115 |
Health sciences | 360 | 368 | 332 | 182 | 182 |
Mathematics and statistics | 18 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
Natural resources and conservation | 100 | 116 | 108 | 5 | . |
Physical sciences | 220 | 220 | 202 | 207 | 206 |
Psychology | 41 | 36 | 42 | 60 | 60 |
Social sciences | 65 | 42 | 48 | 62 | 59 |
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.
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 | 95,901 | 134,488 | 33,600 | 112,770 | . |
Agricultural sciences | . | 9,767 | 20,000 | 29,970 | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | 13,000 | 38,000 | . |
Engineering | 52,800 | 124,721 | 600 | 44,800 | . |
Physical sciences | 23,787 | . | . | . | . |
Social sciences | 19,314 | . | . | . | . |
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 | 104,875 | 29,062 | 16,800 | 32,900 | 33,881 |
Agricultural sciences | 19,723 | 10,946 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 6,700 | 1,975 | 7,000 | 10,000 | 11,658 |
Computer and information sciences | 1,351 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 52,215 | 8,139 | 6,000 | 8,000 | 7,990 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 15,000 | 255 | 3,400 | 1,000 | 3,900 |
Health sciences | 9,555 | 6,615 | 0 | 400 | 2,380 |
Mathematics and statistics | 330 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 802 | 0 | 6,000 | 7,133 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 330 | 400 | 2,000 | 820 |
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.