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The Top American Research Universitiesother sources. And finally, the federal government provideslarge amounts of funding for research products that servenational goals, but almost never pays close to the full costof the research it sponsors.As a consequence of this process, American researchuniversities continue to focus tremendous effort on thechallenge of finding sufficient funding to subsidizeresearch productivity. The value of university research tothe nation is exceptional by every measure or study everdone. But this university research enterprise is extraordinarilycompetitive because the supply of talent capableof contributing to the research agenda is limited and thefunding required to support this limited talent is inadequate.Consequently, universities that can find the money topurchase talent and support will have the best chance inthe competition. Money is a fundamental requirement,but it is not sufficient to guarantee high levels of researchperformance. In addition, research universities have to befocused, efficient and performance based. The better theuniversity manages its research productivity by measuringits competitive success, the more research performanceit will get from whatever funds it acquires to invest inresearch.Campuses, Systems, and Medical SchoolsThe Top American Research Universities methodology forcategorizing institutions continues the practice of focusingon campus-based research institutions. As the higher educationmarketplace becomes more and more complex, thevalue of clearly defined performance criteria will increase.This publication seeks to identify the elements that contributeto and help define exceptional research performanceby single institutions. We know that many multiple campussystems seek to collect the performance of their institutionsunder one brand name to enhance the value of that brand.This may well be an effective positioning strategy withinthe competitive context. However, the goal of this publicationis not to evaluate the aggregate characteristics ofbrands but to collect reasonably consistent data about theperformance of individual research-oriented institutions.Consequently, we report data by institution, which sometimesrequires an estimate when the institution’s productivityis only reported as part of a system aggregate.Even with this effort, we recognize some significant issuesstill remain. The most important of these is the impact ofresearch-oriented medical schools. If a campus-based medicalschool is highly research intensive, it can represent asubstantial portion of a campus’ research productivity andcontribute significantly to other characteristics we measure(such as post-docs or faculty awards, for example). Whenwe compare the research productivity of a campus with aresearch intensive medical school to a campus without sucha unit, the result is not always as useful as we would like.For that reason, beginning with the 2006 report, we havebegun including a table that displays the research productivityof institutions with and without the component representedby the medical school. This does not form a part ofour general report and the associated classifications, but itdoes provide additional information for understanding thedifferences in research productivity among these campusbasedinstitutions.As always in these reports, we acknowledge the strongsupport we have received from our colleagues on theAdvisory Board, from the various institutions and colleagueswho have provided us with comments and suggestionsfor improvement, and from our home institutions.As regular observers of these reports know, this projectowes much to the generosity of Mr. Lewis M. Schott,whose enthusiasm and commitment continue to inspire ourwork. We thank the University of Florida Foundation forits continued commitment to this project. Our generoushosts at Arizona State University have made the transitionto ASU graceful and effective. All of our faculty and staffcolleagues at Arizona State University, the University ofMassachusetts Amherst, the SUNY system, and theLouisiana State University System have been generous intheir advice and support. The quality of the data includedhere is the result of the expert work of Craig W. Abbey,who serves as the Research Director of The Center forMeasuring University Performance. We also thank CarolChapman for her management of The Center’s activities asAdministrative Specialist at ASU and Emily Dalton Smithat ASU for her editorial expertise.John V. Lombardi, Co-DirectorElizabeth D. Capaldi, Co-Director6The Center for Measuring University Performance
The Top American Research UniversitiesPart I – The Top American Research UniversitiesThe Center for Measuring University Performance determinesthe Top American Research Universities by theirrank on nine different measures: Total Research, FederalResearch, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, NationalAcademy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted,Postdoctoral Appointees, and SAT/ACT range. (The SourceNotes section of this study provides detailed informationon each of the nine indicators.) The tables group researchinstitutions according to how many times they rank in thetop 25 on each of these nine measures. The top categoryincludes those universities that rank in the top 25 on allnine indicators. The bottom category includes universitieswith only one of the nine measures ranked in the top 25.Within these groups, institutions are then sorted by howmany times they rank between 26 and 50 on the nine performancevariables, with ties listed alphabetically. A similarmethodology produces a second set of institutions—thoseranked 26 through 50 on the same nine measures.For the purpose of this study, The Center for MeasuringUniversity Performance includes only those institutionsthat had at least $20 million in federal research expendituresin fiscal year 2005. This is the same dollar cutoff usedin our last six reports. There were 196 institutions who metour criteria for fiscal year 2005, 57 private and 136 public.The first two tables list each institution with the most currentdata available for each measure and its correspondingnational rank (i.e., rank among all institutions regardless ofwhether they are privately or publicly controlled). The thirdand fourth tables provide the same nine data measures butwith the groupings determined by the control rank (i.e.,rank among all private or all public institutions). Institutionsranking in the top 25 on at least one measure areincluded in the tables with the (1-25) identifier, while thoseranking 26 through 50 are found in the tables labeled withthe (26-50) header.The Top American Research Universities (1-25) identifiesthe 51 institutions (26 private, 25 public) that rank inthe top 25 nationally on at least one of the nine measures.The Top American Research Universities (26-50) identifiesthe 37 institutions (10 private, 28 public) that rank 26through 50 nationally on at least one of the nine measures.The Top Private Research Universities (1-25) identifiesthe 34 private institutions that rank in the top 25 among allprivate universities on at least one of the nine measures.The Top Public Research Universities (1-25) identifiesthe 48 public institutions that rank in the top 25 among allpublic universities on at least one of the nine measures.The Top Private and Public Research Universities(26-50) identifies the 21 private and 42 public institutionsthat rank 26 through 50 among their private or publiccounterparts on at least one of the nine measures.Many research universities rank highly both nationallyand among their public or private peers, and thereforeappear in more than one table. For example, of the 34 privateinstitutions in the Top Private Research Universities(1-25) table, 26 universities also appear in the Top AmericanResearch Universities (1-25) table.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 are missingfrom 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 Center for Measuring University Performancepresents these tables, along with prior years’ top universities,in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on its web site[http://mup.asu.edu].2007 Annual Report7
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