U. Colorado Colorado Springs
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 | 252 | 45.5 | 457 | 376 | 58.2 | 890 | ||||||
2021 | 252 | 44.3 | 447 | 253 | 57.1 | 583 | 403 | 56.1 | 907 | |||
2020 | 272 | 40.2 | 450 | 401 | 56.7 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 254 | 43.8 | 447 | 285 | 52.2 | 589 | 417 | 54.8 | 913 | |||
2018 | 274 | 36.7 | 428 | 384 | 58.3 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 255 | 40.7 | 425 | 364 | 37.4 | 575 | 372 | 59 | 897 | |||
2016 | 279 | 35.8 | 430 | 367 | 59.5 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 287 | 33.4 | 426 | 325 | 43.6 | 570 | 363 | 60 | 897 | |||
2014 | 293 | 31.3 | 422 | 388 | 56.8 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 261 | 38.1 | 417 | 292 | 50.9 | 588 | 393 | 56 | 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
Fields | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All fields | 32 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 23 | 30 | 22 | 19 | 18 | 23 |
Science and engineering | 21 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 16 |
Science | 11 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | . |
Physics and astronomy | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | . |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Computer sciences | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Mathematics | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Psychology and social sciences | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
Psychology | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
Other social sciences | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
Engineering | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
Electrical engineering | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Mechanical engineering | . | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | 2 | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | . | 2 |
Non-science and engineering | 11 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
Education | 11 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
Education administration | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
Education research | 4 | 2 | . | . | . | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Other education | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | 2 | . | . | 1 |
Other | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | 4 | 1 | . | . | . |
Business management/administration | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 1 | . | . | . |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
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, Survey of Earned Doctorates
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 7,761 | 5,338 | 5,557 | 4,720 | 5,976 | 6,680 | 6,812 | 6,988 | 5,363 | 4,721 | ||||||||||
Science | 4,897 | 3,593 | 3,018 | 2,746 | 3,967 | 4,619 | 4,787 | 4,955 | 3,152 | 2,972 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 2,607 | 1,965 | 1,035 | 928 | 1,305 | 1,767 | 1,904 | 1,361 | 821 | 536 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 187 | 141 | 173 | 79 | 55 | 124 | 187 | 222 | 234 | 316 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 130 | 81 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 181 | 162 | 59 | 73 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 33 | 60 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 32 | 6 | 60 | 57 | 62 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 134 | 78 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 181 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 379 | 755 | 845 | 528 | 634 | 466 | 363 | 267 | 264 | 185 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 332 | 728 | 716 | 510 | 619 | 466 | 359 | 257 | 150 | 83 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 43 | 0 | 62 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4 | 27 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 110 | 102 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 21 | 0 | 11 | 67 | 77 | 108 | 113 | 117 | 77 | 68 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 457 | 310 | 270 | 217 | 472 | 807 | 874 | 1,615 | 538 | 519 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 219 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 69 | 393 | 129 | 100 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 185 | 185 | 145 | 203 | 449 | 765 | 805 | 1,222 | 409 | 371 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 53 | 68 | 125 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 378 | 259 | 226 | 591 | 1,100 | 1,001 | 983 | 954 | 1,112 | 1,055 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 861 | 36 | 124 | 39 | 16 | 58 | 335 | 9 | 28 | 13 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 89 | 14 | 46 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 769 | 22 | 78 | 22 | 16 | 58 | 320 | 9 | 0 | 13 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7 | 127 | 334 | 297 | 308 | 288 | 28 | 410 | 78 | 280 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 1,883 | 902 | 1,367 | 694 | 763 | 992 | 892 | 1,007 | 1,160 | 716 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 23 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 136 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 958 | 526 | 705 | 107 | 181 | 472 | 599 | 513 | 1,042 | 423 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 890 | 344 | 487 | 518 | 582 | 513 | 216 | 330 | 94 | 285 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 12 | 0 | 175 | 69 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 28 | 24 | 8 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 981 | 843 | 1,172 | 1,280 | 1,246 | 1,069 | 1,133 | 1,026 | 1,051 | 1,033 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 43 | 569 | 562 | 662 | 713 | 491 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 275 | 83 | 108 | 173 | 120 | 151 | 48 | 38 | 70 | 0 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 253 | 184 | 130 | 230 | 145 | 227 | ||||||||||
Social work | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 646 | 191 | 502 | 345 | 160 | 243 | 955 | 758 | 836 | 799 |
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 | 7,761 | 5,345 | 752 | 939 | 595 | 130 | 0 | |||||||
Science | 4,897 | 3,472 | 575 | 650 | 109 | 91 | 0 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 2,607 | 2,394 | 0 | 106 | 107 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 187 | 150 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 130 | 111 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 33 | 15 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 379 | 313 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 332 | 313 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 43 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 21 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 457 | 314 | 27 | 114 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 219 | 149 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 185 | 112 | 27 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 53 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 378 | 301 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 861 | 0 | 548 | 229 | 0 | 84 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 89 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 61 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 769 | 0 | 548 | 198 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 1,883 | 1,134 | 107 | 156 | 486 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 23 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 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 | 958 | 314 | 107 | 61 | 476 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 890 | 802 | 0 | 78 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 981 | 739 | 70 | 133 | 0 | 39 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 43 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 275 | 160 | 69 | 41 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 646 | 579 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 34 | 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 | 5,345 | 3,942 | 3,508 | 3,072 | 4,094 | 4,525 | 3,976 | 4,244 | 4,018 | 3,407 | ||||||||||
DOD | 1,510 | 1,099 | 748 | 600 | 850 | 1,682 | 1,849 | 2,157 | 1,991 | 1,945 | ||||||||||
DOE | 142 | 144 | 99 | 110 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
HHS | 549 | 838 | 812 | 940 | 1,100 | 934 | 590 | 498 | 407 | 483 | ||||||||||
NASA | 3 | 15 | 117 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
NSF | 3,082 | 1,837 | 1,683 | 1,349 | 1,742 | 1,756 | 1,400 | 1,589 | 1,620 | 807 | ||||||||||
USDA | 0 | 9 | 24 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other | 59 | 0 | 25 | 53 | 215 | 142 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 172 |
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 | 179 | 53 | 126 | . | |||
2018 | 177 | 50 | 127 | . | |||
2017 | 219 | 49 | 170 | . | |||
2016 | 247 | 48 | 199 | . |
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 | 163 | 131 | 71 | 89 | 113 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 25 | 25 | 15 | 17 | 24 |
Computer and information sciences | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
Engineering | 23 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 30 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 49 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 11 |
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 24 | 24 | 14 | 16 | 28 |
Psychology | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
Social sciences | 14 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
Other | 3 | 3 | 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 | 24,000 | . | 5,220 | . | . |
Engineering | 24,000 | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | . | . | 5,220 | . | . |
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 | 1,471 | 570 | 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 | 478 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 993 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 570 | 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.