Pitt No. 8 Among All U.S. Public Universities in Federally Financed R&D Expenditures
The University of Pittsburgh is ranked No. 8 among all U.S. public universities and 13th among all U.S. universities, public and private, in federally financed R&D expenditures for fiscal year 2009, according to a Sept. 28 Chronicle of Higher Education listing based upon a National Science Foundation report issued on Sept. 27.
The other top-ranked public universities in the listing are Michigan, the University of Washington, UC-San Diego, Wisconsin, Colorado, UC-San Francisco, and UCLA. The top-ranked private universities in the listing are Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Columbia, and Stanford. Pitt outranks, among many others, Caltech, Chicago, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Minnesota, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, USC, Washington University in St. Louis, and Yale.
The listing also highlights universities’ 2009 rankings vs. their rankings in 2004. Here, Pitt advanced by one slot, displacing Harvard, which fell from No. 13 to No. 19 among all universities.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the list “is a leading indicator of research quality because, unlike other financing sources, the federal government awards most of its academic-research dollars through national, open competitions.”
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On the Freedom Road
Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.
Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons