Benchmarking Carnegie Mellon against all colleges
Carnegie Mellon spends the most on research ($284.30M) of the 420 private colleges in the Mid Atlantic with at most $9.958M in research expenses - operation and maintenance of plant. Those $284.30M represent 19.8% of the total across the 420 private colleges, whose average is $3.60M, and 1.7% among all private colleges.
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Peers
after Carnegie Mellon ($284.30M, $9.958M), closest are George Washington Univ ($148.20M, $2.898M), U of Delaware ($109.60M, $7.319M), Thomas Jefferson Univ ($107.20M, $2.765M), and Drexel ($96.60M, $9.003M), ending with Education and Technology Inst. ($0.0K, $0.00K).
17 out of the other 419 private colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., Relay Graduate School of Education.
17 out of the other 419 private colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., Relay Graduate School of Education.
References
- The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
- Research-Operation and maintenance of plant. The source is the IPEDS FY 2013 finance data file F1213_F2 of private not-for-profit institutions and public institutions that use accounting standards established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
- Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).