The Top American Research Universities - The Center for ...

The following tables list the top 200 universities and
colleges on each of the nine performance measures,
along with National Merit and Achievement Scholars.
(The Source Notes section provides detailed information
on each of the 10 data elements.) Unlike the previous
tables in Parts I and II, this section includes data for all
academic institutions regardless of their federal research
activity level.
The Center for Measuring University Performance
provides each institution’s rank nationally among all
universities as well as its rank by institutional control
(i.e., rank among private or public peers). In cases where
several institutions tie for last place, we use a different
cutoff point. For National Academy members, we list all
institutions with at least one National Academy member
among their faculty. Tables in this section include:
• 2006 Total Research Expenditures
• 2006 Federal Research Expenditures
• 2007 Endowment Assets
• 2007 Annual Giving
• 2007 National Academy Membership
• 2007 Faculty Awards
• 2007 Doctorates Granted
• 2006 Postdoctoral Appointees
• 2006 SAT Scores
The Top American Research Universities
Part III – The Top 200 Institutions
• 2007 National Merit and Achievement Scholars
Data found in these tables may not always match the
figures published by the original source. The Center for
Measuring University Performance makes adjustments,
when necessary, to ensure that the data reflect the activity
at a single campus rather than that of a multiple-campus
institution or state university system. When data are missing
from the original source, The Center for Measuring
University Performance may substitute another figure if
available. A full discussion of this subject, and the various
adjustments or substitutions made to the original data, is
in the Data Notes section of this report.
The Center for Measuring University Performance
presents these tables, along with the prior years’ top 200, as
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on-line at [http://mup.asu.edu].
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