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The Top American Research UniversitiesPart II – The Center for Measuring UniversityPerformance – Research UniversitiesThe Center for Measuring University Performance’sresearch universities consist of academic institutions thathad more than $20 million in federal research expendituresin fiscal year 2005. In the following tables, institutions arelisted alphabetically with the most current data available oneach measure and their rank on each measure for each year.The Center for Measuring University Performance providesboth 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, whichcorrespond to the same data years used in each of the fiveprior The Top American Research Universities reports. Inaddition to the nine performance variables presented in PartI tables, these tables also include other institutional characteristicsrelated to student enrollment, medical schools, landgrant status, ownership, research focus, and National Meritand National Achievement Scholars. The Source Notessection of this report provides detailed information on eachdata element. Tables in this section include the following:Total Research Expenditures (2001-2005)Federal Research Expenditures (2001-2005)Research by Major Discipline (2005)Endowment Assets (2002-2006)Annual Giving (2002-2006)National Academy Membership (2002-2006)Faculty Awards (2002-2006)Doctorates Awarded (2002-2006)Postdoctoral Appointees (2001-2005)SAT Scores (2001-2005) Source: The Annual Surveyof Colleges of the College Board and Data Base, 2006-2007. Copyright © 2006 College Entrance ExaminationBoard. All rights reserved.National Merit and Achievement Scholars(2002-2006)Change: Research presents trend data on total,federal, and non-federal research (1996 and 2005) inconstant dollars.Change: Private Support and Doctorates provides trenddata on endowment assets (1997 and 2006) and annualgiving (1997 and 2006) in constant dollars, and doctoratesawarded (1997 and 2006).Change: Students includes trend data on SAT/ACT ranges(1997 and 2005), National Merit and Achievement Scholars(2001 and 2006), and student headcount enrollment (1996and 2005).Institutional Characteristics includes state location,highest degree offered, medical school and land grantstatus, federal research focus (summary of federal researchby discipline), and total student enrollment.Student Characteristics provides headcount enrollmentdata broken out by level (i.e., undergraduate, graduate,first-professional), part-time enrollment by level, anddegrees awarded.The Center for Measuring University PerformanceMeasures presents the number of times a university ranksin the top 25 (or 26-50) on the nine quality measures in thisyear’s report as compared to the past six years (2002-2007reports).Data found in these tables may not always match thefigures published by the original source. The Center forMeasuring University Performance makes adjustments,when necessary, to ensure that the data reflect the activityat a single campus rather than that of a multiple-campusinstitution or state university system. When data aremissing from the original source, The Center for MeasuringUniversity Performance may substitute another figure, ifavailable. A full discussion of this subject, and the variousadjustments or substitutions made to the original data, isin the Data Notes section of this report.The prior years’ data or ranks may differ slightly from ourlast report due to revised figures or estimates from the datasource or institution.The Center for Measuring University Performance’sweb site [http://mup.asu.edu] provides these same tablesin Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for ease of analysis. Inaddition to the over-$20-million group, the on-line tablescontain data on all institutions reporting any federalresearch since 1990.2007 Annual Report21