COSSA Releases 2017 Rankings of Social and Behavioral Science Funding at Colleges and Universities

COSSA recently released its 2017 College and University Rankings for Federal Social and Behavioral Science R&D, which highlights the top university recipients of research dollars in the social and behavioral sciences. Nine of this year’s top 10 recipients of federal funding in the social and behavioral sciences are COSSA members. Based on federally collected data, the COSSA rankings use an inclusive selection of fields to calculate the total federal R&D funding received by universities in the social and behavioral sciences. The 2017 rankings reflect spending from fiscal year 2015, the most current available data. You can find more information on how COSSA produces its rankings and see how your university stacks up against more than 450 U.S. institutions on our website.

The top 10 recipients for 2017 are:

Top Recipients of Federal Social Science R&D Funding

1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC) – $92,039,000
2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) – $88,373,000
3. University of Maryland, College Park (MD) – $58,793,000
4. University of Pennsylvania (PA) – $43,314,000
5. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN) – $38,279,000
6. Pennsylvania State University, University Park and Hershey Medical Center (PA) – $37,264,000
7. University of Washington, Seattle (WA) – $36,876,000
8. Florida State University (FL) – $31,382,000
9. New York University (NY) – $30,804,000
10. Arizona State University (AZ) – $29,812,000

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