The National Science Foundation, has released its annual accounting of academic R&D spending. This year’s data runs through FY 2003.
There’s a section that is funding by field and federal agency. Taking a look at what agencies spend how much money on what kind of research provides insight into what the government considers promising or valuable.
It’s no surprise that medical ($12.8 billion) and biological ($7.4 billion) sciences are the big winners in 2003. Computer sciences received only $1.3 billion by comparison. But what’s interesting to note is that of the disciplines where DOD spent its R&D money at universities, engineering got nearly half ($989 million) of the total DOD R&D funding ($2 billion), with computer sciences coming in a distant second with $297 million. NSF was the only other agency to come close to that number, spending $291 million on computer science R&D in universities.
The second half of the issue brief lists the top 20 institutions based on the amount of federal R&D they received. At the bottom of the brief is the list of non-science expenditures.
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