Teaching Bringing research into the classroom stimulates students and instructors. Particularly at the graduate level, there is a strong and symbiotic link between instruction and research. Indeed, the doctorate is the research degree. The two are inextricably linked. Economic External research funding provides much of the resources needed to train graduate students.
Grants cover direct and indirect costs.
Direct costs help pay researchers' salaries and make it possible to acquire modern equipment, which often becomes the university's property. Indirect costs help a university recover its investment in the research infrastructure, such as buildings. Prestige A university's research and creative efforts enhance its image, even in totally unrelated spheres. As an institution's prestige increases, it becomes easier to recruit and retain the very best faculty and the most promising graduate students. And the better a university's reputation, the more doors are opened to it at funding agencies.