terms). More than five-sixths of the DOD

increase and two-fifths of the NASA increase

were for R&D programs. In current dollars,

academic S&E funding from the Department

of Health and Human Services (HHS) fell by 3

percent, and S&E funding declined by a

fraction of 1 percent from the Department of

Agriculture (USDA). Part of the decrease

from HHS may have been related to reporting

changes by the agency’s Alcohol, Drug Abuse,

and Mental Health Administration.

Science Resources Studies Division

DATA BRIEF Directorate for

Social, Behavioral

and Economic

Sciences

National Science Foundation

 by Richard J.

Bennof

Vol. 1995, No. 8, May 8, 1995

Federal Academic S&E Obligations

Showed Slight Decrease in FY 1993

Only DOD and

NASA reported

academic S&E

increases that

exceeded inflation.

F

ederal obligations for academic science

and engineering (S&E) activities totaled

$12.7 billion in fiscal year (FY) 1993,

decreasing very slightly (one-tenth of 1

percent) from FY 1992, or by more than 2

percent after adjusting for inflation. This

information is based on the most recent data

from the National Science Foundation’s

(NSF’s) Survey of Federal Support to

Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions.

Categories of Support

Academic S&E includes the following six

funding categories: (1) research and development (R&D); (2) fellowships, traineeships,

and training grants (FTTG); (3) R&D plant;

(4) facilities and equipment for instruction;

(5) general support for S&E; and (6) other

S&E activities. The R&D portion, which

represented $6 of every $7 of academic

S&E, totaled $10.9 billion in FY 1993,

representing an increase of 0.7 percent in

current dollars. Only two of the other five

academic S&E categories (R&D plant and

FTTG) showed increased levels of support,

both increasing at rates higher than the 2.4-

percent inflation rate. R&D plant funding

rose by 26 percent in current dollars to a new

high of $258 million. Nearly all of the gain

in R&D plant funding came from increases

in Department of Energy (DOE) programs.

FTTG obligations rose by 3 percent in

current dollars, to $525 million.

Agency Sources

Of the six agencies responsible for the

largest amounts of academic S&E obligations in FY 1993 (accounting for 95 percent

of the Federal total), four (the Department

of Defense (DOD), the National Aeronautics

and Space Administration (NASA), NSF,

and the DOE) reported current-dollar increases (table 1). However, the only agencies that showed increases exceeding the rate

of inflation were DOD and NASA (19

percent and 6 percent, respectively, in real

Table 1. Federal academic S&E support, by

agency: Fiscal years 1992-93

University Shares

The Johns Hopkins University (including its

Applied Physics Laboratory) was the top

recipient of Federal academic S&E support

(table 2), nearly all of it from DOD and HHS.

The leading 20 universities, ranked by Federal

agencies’ academic S&E obligations, accounted for 36 percent of the FY 1993 S&E

total. Eighteen of the top twenty academic

S&E recipients in FY 1993 were also among

the leading 20 in FY 1992. The new entrants

were Duke University (now 19th) and the

University of Texas at Austin (20th).

User Notes

The Federal Support data presented in this

Data Brief were obtained from the 15 Federal

[Millions of dollars] [Percent change]

Agency FY 1992 FY 1993 Current 

dollars

1987 

dollars

Total................. 12,739 12,724 -0.1 -2.5

 HHS.......... 6,210 6,023 -3.0 -5.3

 NSF............. 1,830 1,858 1.5 -0.9

 DOD......... 1,510 1,834 21.5 18.6

 USDA....... 942 941 -0.1 -2.5

 NASA...... 680 737 8.4 5.9

 DOE......... 705 715 1.4 -1.0

 All other 

 agencies... 862 615 -28.6 -30.3

SOURCE: NSF/SRS, Survey of Federal Support to Universities,

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discipline, institutional ranking,

geographic distribution, and type of

institutional control.

Selected data items for individual

doctorate-granting institutions and

schools with S&E departments that

grant a master’s degree are available

on computer-generated Institutional

Profiles. An Institutional Profile

consists of data not only from this

survey, but also from NSF’s other two

academic S&E surveys: the Survey of

Scientific and Engineering Expenditures at Universities and Colleges and

the Survey of Graduate Science and

Engineering Students and Postdoctorates. Data from these surveys

are also available via STIS (see

“Electronic Dissemination,” p.1) and

the Computer-Aided Science Policy

Analysis and Research (CASPAR)

database system, a user-friendly tool

on CD-ROM for retrieval and analyses

of statistical data on academic S&E

resources. For more information,

please contact Richard J. Bennof,

Project Manager, at the following

address:

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Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions.

The survey also includes statistics on

Federal support obligations by funding

category, type of institution, S&E

agencies that provide virtually all

academic R&D support and that

participated in the FY 1993 Survey of

Federal Support to Universities,

Table 2. Federal academic science & engineering (S&E) support to the top

20 universities: FY 1993

[Millions of dollars]

Rank Institution

Total 

academic 

S&E

R&D R&D 

plant

Facilities & 

equipment 

for 

instruction

Fellowships, 

traineeships, 

& training 

grants

General 

support for 

S&E

Other 

S&E 

activities

 Total, all institutions 12,723.6 10,940.1 258.4 32.2 524.8 66.1 902.0

1 Johns Hopkins University 1/.... 701.1 543.9 -- -- 16.3 0.2 140.7

2 University of Washington........... 279.8 246.0 0.9 0.1 13.5 1.2 18.1

3 MA Inst of Technology............. 276.3 251.8 6.8 0.1 10.0 0.4 7.1

4 Stanford University.................. 267.7 249.6 2/ 0.0 17.4 0.0 1.7

5 University of Michigan.............. 233.9 214.6 0.6 0.2 12.2 0.3 5.9

6 U CA San Diego....................... 217.4 204.1 0.3 0.0 8.6 2.5 1.9

7 Cornell University..................... 216.6 174.2 16.5 0.1 8.2 -- 17.6

8 U WI Madison............................ 216.1 190.5 4.8 0.1 7.1 0.3 13.4

9 Pennsylvania State U............... 210.9 173.1 0.5 0.1 2.8 0.1 34.3

10 U CA Los Angeles..................... 207.9 195.8 0.3 0.0 9.6 0.2 2.0

11 Columbia U City New York....... 205.8 194.9 2.0 0.0 7.2 0.3 1.3

12 University of PA.......................... 200.6 186.0 0.6 0.1 11.1 0.5 2.4

13 University of Minnesota................ 194.6 168.7 0.5 0.2 8.3 0.2 16.8

14 Harvard University..................... 187.9 169.2 0.3 0.0 16.8 0.1 1.6

15 U CA San Francisco.................. 187.6 175.4 0.1 0.0 11.3 0.3 0.5

16 Yale University.......................... 182.4 169.2 2.2 0.0 9.6 -- 1.4

17 U CA Berkeley..................................................... 162.4 133.2 0.4 -- 10.8 0.1 17.8

18 University of Colorado..................... 157.8 145.5 0.6 0.1 8.0 2.8 0.8

19 Duke University............................. 148.5 138.8 0.7 0.1 6.4 0.4 2.0

20 U TX Austin................................ 146.7 117.2 0.2 0.0 3.7 0.7 24.9

Total, top 20 institutions............. 4,602.0 4,041.6 37.4 1.1 198.9 10.7 312.2

KEY: "--" = Less than $50,000

 1/ Includes funding for the Applied Physics Laboratory

 2/ Funds deobligated for R&D plant exceeded the amount obligated in FY 1993.

SOURCE: NSF/SRS, Survey of Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: FY 1993