Research Spending
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Will be interested to seee how that number grows now that the medical school is fully integrated. Presume there is a few year lag in the figures?
Regardless – this shows how neglected the state’s flagship university has been. Based on location alone the availability of capital and inability to leverage speaks to the ongoing failure of leadership at the state and university level.
Weak sauce for one of the oldest and most established institutions in the country.
Regardless – this shows how neglected the state’s flagship university has been. Based on location alone the availability of capital and inability to leverage speaks to the ongoing failure of leadership at the state and university level.
Weak sauce for one of the oldest and most established institutions in the country.
A 100 year head start as a B1G school in the CIC most likely is the reason.
Better question is how are Arizona and Arizona St. ahead of us...same for Michigan St? On the flip side, I was pleasantly surprised we're higher than UVA, Illinois and Princeton.
I posted on this topic earlier this year, looking at data from 2013 to 2022. The data series begins in 2013. I don't know where Altimore got the 2023 figures.
Holloway testified to the state lawmakers earlier this year that Rutgers is at a disadvantage when competing with other universities when competing for research grants, calling out Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Maryland as universities in an advantageous position.
Conference rank 2022 , University, National Rank 2013-2022 Average, National Rank 2022
1 Michigan 2 4
2 Washington 4 5
3 Wisconsin 7 8
4 Maryland 7 19
5 UCLA 9 6
6 Minnesota 17 20
7 Penn State 22 27
8 Ohio State 20 11
9 USC 27 27
10 Northwestern 29 29
11 Illinois 34 39
12 Michigan State 36 40
13 Rutgers 37 46
14 Purdue 38 41
15 Iowa 50 52
16 Indiana 54 42
17 Nebraska 81 87
18 Oregon 152 146
Source: National Science Foundation https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd
Note: Data presented for flagship campuses, for example Rutgers-New Brunswick and Penn State-University Park; data for other campuses such as Rutgers-Newark available in source file
Holloway testified to the state lawmakers earlier this year that Rutgers is at a disadvantage when competing with other universities when competing for research grants, calling out Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Maryland as universities in an advantageous position.
Conference rank 2022 , University, National Rank 2013-2022 Average, National Rank 2022
1 Michigan 2 4
2 Washington 4 5
3 Wisconsin 7 8
4 Maryland 7 19
5 UCLA 9 6
6 Minnesota 17 20
7 Penn State 22 27
8 Ohio State 20 11
9 USC 27 27
10 Northwestern 29 29
11 Illinois 34 39
12 Michigan State 36 40
13 Rutgers 37 46
14 Purdue 38 41
15 Iowa 50 52
16 Indiana 54 42
17 Nebraska 81 87
18 Oregon 152 146
Source: National Science Foundation https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd
Note: Data presented for flagship campuses, for example Rutgers-New Brunswick and Penn State-University Park; data for other campuses such as Rutgers-Newark available in source file
Why is Rutgers at a disadvantage? Trying to understand – is it geography, competition from private laboratories, lack of political clout among their elected officials and congressional delegation, etc.?
I would think the money and connections would put RU at or near the top.
But again, as I mentioned earlier, not having the medical school as part of the university for so many years, likely play a major role as so much funding is in that arena anymore.
I would think the money and connections would put RU at or near the top.
But again, as I mentioned earlier, not having the medical school as part of the university for so many years, likely play a major role as so much funding is in that arena anymore.
Holloway makes clear why Rutgers is at a disadvantage in his testimony I linked to in post #8.
"The near 80-percent fringe benefit rate is a major detriment for every grant application competed for by Rutgers and every other research university in New Jersey. The competition - Ohio State, Michigan, Ohio State, Maryland and beyond - all have fringe rates that are less than half the rate of New Jersey."
Holloway goes on to blame the state for imposing an uncompetitive fringe rate on New Jersey universities and asks the state to eliminate the overcharge.
Fringe rate = fringe benefits / base salary
80% = $80,000 / $100,000
That equates to $180,000 for a researcher.
At a university with a, say, 30% fringe rate, the cost for the same researcher would be $130,000.
Fringe benefits include costs such health insurance and pension contributions.
Other than Maryland, UCLA, USC and Washington, RU is always going to be a leader in that figure given the COL here. And other than Berkeley and Stanford I think the B1G is going to take the cake in that category.
U Oregon doesn’t have a medical school. That’s where a big % of funding goes at the research intensive universities. Rutgers didn’t either until a decade ago, at which time the governor forced the RU-UMDNJ merger,
More to the point, research at RU is more expensive for sponsors because of the higher fringe rate applied to salaries in project budgets.
If a faculty member making $200k is 50% effort on a project ($100k), salary and fringe would be $180k on it. Sponsors could pay other universities with lower fringe less $ to do the same actual research.
