Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities for total National Institutes of Health funding ... [+]
Johns Hopkins University once again leads all U.S. universities and colleges in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. In federal fiscal year 2023, the most recent year for which relatively complete data are available, Hopkins investigators received $842,956,584 in awards, representing an approximately $3.1 million increase over its prior year total. The rest of the top ten universities were:
- University of California, San Francisco. $789,196,651
- University of Pennsylvania $703,217,343
- Duke University $701,940,461
- University of Michigan $698,264,076
- University of Pittsburgh $658,312,303
- Washington University, St. Louis $633,343,121
- Columbia University Health Sciences $633,309,114
- Stanford University $628,835,527
- Yale University $622,499,969
Rounding out the top 20 were:
- University of California, Los Angeles $580,267,623
- University of California, San Diego $572,451,525
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $559,512,811
- University of Washington, Seattle $558,170,733
- Vanderbilt University $546,405,280
- Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine $501,120,829
- Emory University $485,429,870
- University of Wisconsin, Madison $446,888,313
- New York University $424,963,095
- Northwestern University $413,561,989
A total of 19 institutions – including three non-university entities – brought in at least $500 million in NIH funding in Fiscal Year 2023, including grants for research, teaching and clinical projects.
The three non-university institutions (not included in this article) that ranked in the overall top 20 were Leidos Biomedical Research that operates the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, which placed first overall with $866,144,063; Massachusetts General Hospital was 7th with $675,290,582; and the Research Triangle Institute was 17th with $550,923,106.
The numbers are compiled annually by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR), under the direction of Robert Roskoski Jr., a retired professor of biochemistry, along with Tristram G. Parslow.
BRIMR has reported on annual NIH awards since 2006, after NIH stopped publishing its own rankings in 2005. It uses data obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool from the National Institutes of Health.
In addition to institution-wide data and rankings, BRIMR also breaks out NIH awards by the major units and departments typically found in most academic health centers. Separate figures for clinical and basic science departments within schools of medicine are also provided.
Awards by those various departments and schools can be found here. Here are the top 10 health profession schools in five major categories.
Schools of Medicine
- University of California, San Francisco $700,332,710
- Washington University St. Louis $583,581,216
- University of Pennsylvania $579,807,450
- Yale University $571,450,883
- Johns Hopkins University $568,570,553
- Stanford University $557,072,253
- Duke University $551,550,391
- University of Pittsburgh $547,682,552
- Columbia University Health Sciences $530,073,162
- Vanderbilt University $527,736,361
Schools of Nursing
- Columbia University Health Sciences $23,893,658
- University of Pennsylvania $19,333,967
- University of California, San Francisco $19,160,722
- Florida State University $18,702,370
- Emory University $14,004,794
- University of Washington, Seattle $10,385,204
- University of Alabama, Birmingham $10,279,453
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $9,247,443
- John Hopkins University $8,997,592
- Ohio State University $7,814,043
Schools of Dentistry
- University of California, San Francisco $26,814,987
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $20,376,426
- New York University $19,945,857
- University of Pennsylvania $16,875,855
- University of Southern California $16,516,758
- University of Florida $13,864,352
- University of California, Los Angeles $12,776,337
- University of Maryland, Baltimore $10,745,163
- University of Connecticut $8,304,751
- University of Texas Health Sciences, Houston $7,777,299
Schools of Pharmacy
- University of California, San Francisco $36,769,061
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $29,496,737
- University of Florida $21,465,293
- University of Arizona $19,052,657
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences $17,054,137
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $14,957,094
- Rutgers University $12,205,914
- University of Washington, Seattle $11,302,075
- University of Utah $11,059,092
- University of Colorado, Denver $10,676,694
Schools of Public Health
- Johns Hopkins University $169,129,276
- Harvard School of Public Health $140,074,836
- Columbia University Health Sciences $74,100,871
- University of North Carolina $69,864,601
- Emory University $62,444,999
- Brown University $56,247,168
- University of Washington, Seattle $51,154,050
- University of Pittsburgh $44,025,766
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $42,762,765
- George Washington University $32,453,779
