Title : Federal Academic S&E Obligations Type : 1995 Data Briefs NSF Org: SBE / SRS Date : May 8, 1995 File : sdb95314 Note: The companion binary file to this text file is an Adobe Acrobat .PDF (Portable Document Format) file. In order to view and print this file, you must use the Adobe Acrobate Reader. The Acrobat reader is available from Adobe via Ftp. Ftp to ftp.adobe.com anonymous <------User email name <------Password Change the directory to: pub/adobe/applications/acrobat/Windows <----Windows reader or pub/adobe/applications/acrobat/mcintosh <----MacIntosh reader or pub/adobe/applications/acrobat/unix <----Unix reader Download the relevant Acrobat Reader file, entitled ACROREAD.EXE. You may freely distribute the reader program. by Richard J. Bennof ------------------------- Only DOD and NASA reported academic S&E increases that exceeded inflation. -------------------------- Federal obligations for academic science and engineering (S&E) activities totaled $12.7 billion in fiscal year (FY) 1993, decreasing very slightly (one-tenth of 1 percent) from FY 1992, or by more than 2 percent after adjusting for inflation. This information is based on the most recent data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Survey of Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions. Categories of Support Academic S&E includes the following six funding categories: (1) research and development (R&D); (2) fellowships, traineeships, and training grants (FTTG); (3) R&D plant; (4) facilities and equipment for instruction; (5) general support for S&E; and (6) other S&E activities. The R&D portion, which represented $6 of every $7 of academic S&E, totaled $10.9 billion in FY 1993, representing an increase of 0.7 percent in current dollars. Only two of the other five academic S&E categories (R&D plant and FTTG) showed increased levels of support, both increasing at rates higher than the 2.4-percent inflation rate. R&D plant funding rose by 26 percent in current dollars to a new high of $258 million. Nearly all of the gain in R&D plant funding came from increases in Department of Energy (DOE) programs. FTTG obligations rose by 3 percent in current dollars, to $525 million. Agency Sources Of the six agencies responsible for the largest amounts of academic S&E obligations in FY 1993 (accounting for 95 percent of the Federal total), four (the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NSF, and the DOE) reported current-dollar increases (table 1). However, the only agencies that showed increases exceeding the rate of inflation were DOD and NASA (19 percent and 6 percent, respectively, in real terms). More than five-sixths of the DOD increase and two-fifths of the NASA increase were for R&D programs. In current dollars, academic S&E funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fell by 3 percent, and S&E funding declined by a fraction of 1 percent from the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Part of the decrease from HHS may have been related to reporting changes by the agency’s Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Table 1. Federal academic S&E support, by agency: Fiscal years 1992-93 ___________________________________________ [Millions of dollars] [Percent change] ___________________________________________ Agency FY 1992 FY 1993 Current 1987 dollars dollars ------------------------------------------- Total..12,739 12,724 -0.1 -2.5 HHS.... 6,210 6,023 -3.0 -5.3 NSF.... 1,830 1,858 1.5 -0.9 DOD.... 1,510 1,834 21.5 18.6 USDA... 942 941 -0.1 -2.5 NASA... 680 737 8.4 5.9 DOE.... 705 715 1.4 -1.0 All other agencies..862 615 -28.6 -30.3 __________________________________________ SOURCE: NSF/SRS, Survey of Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: FY 1993 University Shares The Johns Hopkins University (including its Applied Physics Laboratory) was the top recipient of Federal academic S&E support (table 2), nearly all of it from DOD and HHS. The leading 20 universities, ranked by Federal agencies’ academic S&E obligations, accounted for 36 percent of the FY 1993 S&E total. Eighteen of the top twenty academic S&E recipients in FY 1993 were also among the leading 20 in FY 1992. The new entrants were Duke University (now 19th) and the University of Texas at Austin (20th). Table 2. Federal academic science & engineering (S&E) support to the top 20 universities: FY 1993 [Millions of dollars] _____________________________________________________________________ Rank Insti- Total R&D R&D Facilities Fellow- General Other tution aca- plant and ships, support S&E demic equip- trainee- for acti- S&E ment for ships S&E vities instruc- and tion training grants --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total, all insti- tutions 12,723.6 10,940.1 258.4 32.2 524.8 66.1 902.0 1 Johns Hopkins Univer- sity 1/.... 701.1 543.9 -- -- 6.3 0.2 140.7 2 Univer- sity of Wash- ington... 279.8 246.0 0.9 0.1 13.5 1.2 18.1 3 MA Inst of Tech- nology.. 276.3 251.8 6.8 0.1 10.0 0.4 7.1 4 Stanford Univ- ersity.. 267.7 249.6 2/ 0.0 17.4 0.0 1.7 5 Univ- ersity of Michigan.. 233.9 214.6 0.6 0.2 12.2 0.3 5.9 6 U CA San Diego... 217.4 204.1 0.3 0.0 8.6 2.5 1.9 7 Cornell Univ- ersity... 216.6 174.2 16.5 0.1 8.2 -- 17.6 8 U WI Madison... 216.1 190.5 4.8 0.1 7.1 0.3 13.4 9 Pennsyl- vania State U... 210.9 173.1 0.5 0.1 2.8 0.1 34.3 10 U CA Los Angeles... 207.9 195.8 0.3 0.0 9.6 0.2 2.0 11 Columbia U City New York...205.8 194.9 2.0 0.0 7.2 0.3 1.3 12 Univer- sity of PA....... 200.6 186.0 0.6 0.1 11.1 0.5 2.4 13 Univer- sity of Minnesota..194.6 168.7 0.5 0.2 8.3 0.2 16.8 14 Harvard Univ- ersity.....187.9 169.2 0.3 0.0 16.8 0.1 1.6 15 U CA San Francisco..187.6 175.4 0.1 0.0 11.3 0.3 0.5 16 Yale Univer- sity..... 182.4 169.2 2.2 0.0 9.6 -- 1.4 17 U CA Berkeley.. 162.4 133.2 0.4 -- 10.8 0.1 17.8 18 Univer- sity of Colorado...157.8 145.5 0.6 0.1 8.0 2.8 0.8 19 Duke Univer- sity..... 148.5 138.8 0.7 0.1 6.4 0.4 2.0 20 U TX Austin.... 146.7 117.2 0.2 0.0 3.7 0.7 24.9 Total, top 20 insti- tutions..4,602.0 4,041.6 37.4 1.1 198.9 10.7 312.2 _____________________________________________________________________ KEY: "--" = Less than $50,000 1/ Includes funding for the Applied Physics Laboratory 2/ Funds deobligated for R&D plant exceeded the amount obligated in FY 1993. SOURCE: NSF/SRS, Survey of Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: FY 1993 User Notes The Federal Support data presented in this Data Brief were obtained from the 15 Federal agencies that provide virtually all academic R&D support and that participated in the FY 1993 Survey of Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions. The survey also includes statistics on Federal support obligations by funding category, type of institution, S&E discipline, institutional ranking, geographic distribution, and type of institutional control. Selected data items for individual doctorate-granting institutions and schools with S&E departments that grant a master’s degree are available on computer-generated Institutional Profiles. An Institutional Profile consists of data not only from this survey, but also from NSF’s other two academic S&E surveys: the Survey of Scientific and Engineering Expenditures at Universities and Colleges and the Survey of Graduate Science and Engineering Students and Post-doctorates. Data from these surveys are also available via STIS (see "Electronic Dissemination," p.1) and the Computer-Aided Science Policy Analysis and Research (CASPAR) database system, a user-friendly tool on CD-ROM for retrieval and analyses of statistical data on academic S&E resources. For more information, please contact Richard J. Bennof, Project Manager, at the following address: Division of Science Resources Studies National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965 Arlington, VA 22230 Phone: (703) 306-1772, ext. 6938 Internet: rbennof@nsf.gov For free printed copies of SRS Data Briefs, write to the above address, call 703-306-1773, or send e-mail to srspubs@nsf.gov. --end--