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The Top American Research Universitiesin one area as “heavy” and label those with 50-74% of theirexpenditures concentrated as “strong.” Other universities with25-49% in one or more disciplines we describe as “moderate.”A few institutions (but none in the more than $20 million group)have expenditures distributed fairly evenly across the disciplines;those we code as “mixed.”In some cases, where an institution reports as a multi-campusentity, we made adjustments to break out the discipline-levelexpenditure data by single campus. Typically, this involved movingall or a portion of the life sciences expenditures to the healthor medical center campus. IPEDS fall enrollment and graduatedegrees by discipline data also were used to help in this effort.While these data offer some insight as to the research structureof a university, their usefulness is limited. For example, we maybe tempted to use the life sciences as a surrogate for medicalresearch, but we must remember that they also include agriculturaland biological sciences. Further, the growing trend towardmultidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects may make it moredifficult for universities to accurately reflect expenditures bydiscipline or sub-discipline. TheCenter chooses not to break outthese sub-disciplines because the data are increasingly prone toerror as further adjustments are made.Student CharacteristicsFall EnrollmentSource: NCES IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, 2005.Each November, institutions report their current fall headcountenrollment to the IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey. Enrollment figuresinclude both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students.TheCenter provides the headcount enrollment by level as presentedby IPEDS, along with the percentage of those attendingpart-time. Graduate students include those seeking specialistdegrees in engineering and education. First professional studentsinclude those seeking degrees in medical fields, such as Chiropractic,Dentistry, Medicine, Optometry, Osteopathic Medicine,Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Veterinary Medicine, as well as thoseseeking degrees in Law and Theology.Each campus in our study submits enrollment data by campus,except for the few institutions identified in our Data Notessection. Because this is an informational item and not one ofTheCenter’s nine quality measures, we did not attempt to adjustthese figures.1 Academic R&D Expenditures, FY 2000: Technical Notes(On-line: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf02308/secta.htm)2 National Patterns of R&D Resources, 1998: Technical Notes(On-line: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf99335/appa.htm3 College and University Higher Education Price Index, 2007Update, Research Associates of Washington, Washington, DC.4 National Patterns of R&D Resources, 1998: Technical Notes(On-line: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf99335/appa.htm)5 Survey Methodology: Survey of Graduate Studentsand Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (On-line:http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/)6 Concordance Between SAT I and ACT Scores forIndividual Students, Research Notes 07, June 1999 (On-line:http://www.collegeboard.org/research/html/rn_indx.html.)220The Center for Measuring University Performance