The top 30 R&D performers:

Johns Hopkins University: $3.2 billion
University of California, San Francisco: $1.7 billion
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: $1.6 billion
University of Pennsylvania: $1.6 billion
University of Washington, Seattle: $1.5 billion
University of California, Los Angeles: $1.45 billion
University of California, San Diego: $1.42 billion
University of Wisconsin-Madison: $1.4 billion
Stanford University: $1.3 billion
Harvard University: $1.25 billion
Duke University: $1.2 billion
Ohio State University: $1.2 billion
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: $1.2 billion
Cornell University: $1.2 billion
Yale University: $1.2 billion
Texas A&M University, College Station and Health Science Center: $1.1 billion
University of Maryland: $1.1 billion
University of Pittsburgh: $1.1 billion
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: $1.1 billion
Georgia Institute of Technology: $1.1 billion
Columbia University in the City of New York: $1.1 billion
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: $1.1 billion
New York University: $1.1 billion
Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $1.billion
Washington University in St. Louis: $989 million
Pennsylvania State University, University Park and Hershey Medical Center: $971 million
University of Florida: $960 million
University of Southern California: $956 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $949 million
Northwestern University: $913 million

Check the chart below for R&D spending in specific academic fields:

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