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4 real improvement. This attitude produces much celebration when a small and fundamentally irrelevant positive change in rankings occurs. No sensible administrator of a public university will argue that the Ranking Has No Clothes. Instead, the bravest among them are limited to staying silent in the face of foolish celebrations. Others, more attuned to the public pulse will advertise specious improvement in rankings as the real thing; further eroding any effort to focus on what the institution needs to do to get better. Of course, if a highly visible ranking declines, then administrators will explain in excruciating detail why methodological issues related to the ranking render the institution’s declining position an irrelevancy. Such behavior is inevitable in the competitive college and university industry. The ferocious competition for the money that buys high quality students and superior research faculty mandates both serious comparisons of performance and publicity driven self-promotion by institutions. This competition is the real issue that underlies all of the rankings business, whether academic, free, and accessible versions such as this one or complex, statistically elaborate, closed, for-profit enterprise such as US News. The Center for Measuring University Performance The Top American Research Universities Acknowledgements This edition of the Top American Research Universities, as has been the case since the beginning of this project, owes much to a generous gift by Mr. Lewis Schott to the University of Florida. This support provided the seed funding and continues to sustain various elements of our work. The University of Florida continues to support this project through the private funding provided by Mr. Schott and others. We are also grateful for the significant assistance in the preparation and publication of The Top American Research Universities from Arizona State University that host’s The Center and one of its co-directors. We appreciate as well the assistance of the Louisiana State University System that allows the other co-director to continue to participate. Various colleagues have made contributions to the work of The Center over the past year and we are grateful to Craig Abbey, Lynne Collis, Diane Craig, and Ned Ruggeri for their commitment. As always, we appreciate and rely on the advice and counsel provided by our Advisory Board. Elizabeth D. Capaldi John V. Lombardi December 2008
The Top American Research Universities Part I – The Top American Research Universities The Center for Measuring University Performance determines the Top American Research Universities by their rank on nine different measures: Total Research, Federal Research, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, National Academy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted, Postdoctoral Appointees, and SAT/ACT range. (The Source Notes section of this study provides detailed information on each of the nine indicators.) The tables group research institutions according to how many times they rank in the top 25 on each of these nine measures. The top category includes those universities that rank in the top 25 on all nine indicators. The bottom category includes universities with only one of the nine measures ranked in the top 25. Within these groups, institutions are then sorted by how many times they rank between 26 and 50 on the nine performance variables, with ties listed alphabetically. A similar methodology produces a second set of institutions—those ranked 26 through 50 on the same nine measures. For the purpose of this study, The Center for Measuring University Performance includes only those institutions that had at least $40 million in federal research expenditures in fiscal year 2006. This is a new threshold which replaced our previous $20 million cutoff. There were 156 institutions who met our criteria for fiscal year 2006, 108 public and 48 private. The first two tables list each institution with the most current data available for each measure and its corresponding national rank (i.e., rank among all institutions regardless of whether they are privately or publicly controlled). The other tables provide the same nine data measures but with the groupings determined by the control rank (i.e., rank among all private or all public institutions). Institutions ranking in the top 25 on at least one measure are included in the tables with the (1-25) identifier, while those ranking 26 through 50 are found in the tables labeled with the (26-50) header. • The Top American Research Universities (1-25) identifies the 54 institutions (28 private, 26 public) that rank in the top 25 nationally on at least one of the nine measures. • The Top American Research Universities (26-50) identifies the 31 institutions (8 private, 23 public) that rank 26 through 50 nationally on at least one of the nine measures. • The Top Private Research Universities (1-25) identifies the 36 private institutions that rank in the top 25 among all private universities on at least one of the nine measures. • The Top Private Research Universities (26-50) identifies the 12 private institutions that rank 26 through 50 among their private counterparts on at least one of the nine measures. • The Top Public Research Universities (1-25) identifies the 44 public institutions that rank in the top 25 among all public universities on at least one of the nine measures. • The Top Public Research Universities (26-50) identifies the 41 public institutions that rank 26 through 50 among their public counterparts on at least one of the nine measures. Many research universities rank highly both nationally and among their public or private peers, and therefore appear in more than one table. For example, of the 36 private institutions in the Top Private Research Universities (1-25) table, 28 universities also appear in the Top American Research Universities (1-25) table. 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 prior years’ top universities, in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on its web site [http://mup.asu.edu]. 2008 Annual Report 5
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