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The Top American Research Universities
Part II – The Center for Measuring University
Performance – Research Universities
The Center for Measuring University Performance’s
research universities consist of academic institutions that
had more than $40 million in federal research expenditures
in fiscal year 2006. In the following tables, institutions are
listed alphabetically with the most current data available on
each measure and their rank on each measure for each year.
The Center for Measuring University Performance provides
both the national rank (rank among all universities)
and the control rank (rank within private or public universities).
We include five years of data for each measure, which
correspond to the same data years used in each of the five
prior The Top American Research Universities reports. In
addition to the nine performance variables presented in Part
I tables, these tables also include other institutional characteristics
related to student enrollment, medical schools, land
grant status, ownership, research focus, and National Merit
and National Achievement Scholars. The Source Notes
section of this report provides detailed information on each
data element. Tables in this section include the following:
• Total Research Expenditures (2002-2006)
• Federal Research Expenditures (2002-2006)
• Research by Major Discipline (2006)
• Endowment Assets (2003-2007)
• Annual Giving (2003-2007)
• National Academy Membership (2003-2007)
• Faculty Awards (2003-2007)
• Doctorates Awarded (2003-2007)
• Postdoctoral Appointees (2002-2006)
• SAT Scores (2002-2006)
• National Merit and Achievement Scholars
(2003-2007)
• Change: Research presents trend data on total,
federal, and non-federal research (1997 and 2006)
in constant dollars.
• Change: Private Support and Doctorates provides
trend data on endowment assets (1998 and 2007) and
annual giving (1998 and 2007) in constant dollars, and
doctorates awarded (1998 and 2007).
• Change: Students includes trend data on SAT/ACT
ranges (1998 and 2006), National Merit and Achievement
Scholars (2002 and 2007), and student headcount
enrollment (1997 and 2006).
• Institutional Characteristics includes state location,
highest degree offered, medical school and land grant
status, federal research focus (summary of federal
research by discipline), and total student enrollment.
• Student Characteristics provides headcount enrollment
data broken out by level (i.e., undergraduate,
graduate, first-professional), part-time enrollment by
level, and degrees awarded.
• The Center for Measuring University Performance
Measures presents the number of times a university
ranks in the top 25 (or 26-50) on the nine quality
measures in this year’s report as compared to the past
six years (2003-2008 reports).
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 prior years’ data or ranks may differ slightly from our
last report due to revised figures or estimates from the data
source or institution.
The Center for Measuring University Performance’s web
site [http://mup.asu.edu] provides these same tables in
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for ease of analysis. In
addition to the over-$40-million group, the on-line tables
contain data on all institutions reporting any federal
research since 1990.
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