Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center research and development spending, FY2024
- Hanover, NH
- R1
- Private nonprofit
- Standard form filer
Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in FY2024
$418.4 million
spent on research and development in FY2024, as reported to the NSF HERD Survey
- National rank
- #85 of 925
- Change on FY2023
- up 14.1%
- Rank change
- up 1
Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center reported $418.4 million of research and development spending in FY2024, ranking #85 of the 925 institutions in the survey. That is up 14.1% on FY2023's $366.9 million; its national rank was up 1 place. Institution funds is its largest funding source at 45.6% ($191.0 million), followed by federal government at 44.4%. Its largest field of research is life sciences, $199.0 million or 47.6% of the total.
Over time
Research spending, FY2010 to FY2024
Standard-form totals FY2010 onwards as revised by NCSES in the newest release; rank is within that series.
Year-by-year figures
| Fiscal year | R&D expenditure | Rank in series |
|---|---|---|
| FY2010 | $194.1 million | 95 |
| FY2011 | $210.6 million | 91 |
| FY2012 | $195.9 million | 97 |
| FY2013 | $201.6 million | 93 |
| FY2014 | $212.6 million | 93 |
| FY2015 | $209.6 million | 98 |
| FY2016 | $233.6 million | 90 |
| FY2017 | $308.4 million | 73 |
| FY2018 | $323.9 million | 73 |
| FY2019 | $323.0 million | 77 |
| FY2020 | $326.3 million | 78 |
| FY2021 | $330.2 million | 82 |
| FY2022 | $344.1 million | 85 |
| FY2023 | $366.9 million | 86 |
| FY2024 | $418.4 million | 85 |
FY2024 breakdown
Where the money came from, and what it paid for
FY2024 funding sources and research fields
Funding sources
The 6 NSF funding sources Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center reported in FY2024, largest first. Shares are of its own FY2024 total, and the rank is national within that source.
| Source | FY2024 | Share | Change on FY2023 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution funds | $191.0 million | 45.6% | +15.0% | 49 |
| Federal government | $185.8 million | 44.4% | +10.1% | 95 |
| Nonprofit organizations | $22.4 million | 5.4% | +7.5% | 79 |
| All other sources | $9.6 million | 2.3% | +10.6% | 73 |
| Business | $8.9 million | 2.1% | +270.4% | 111 |
| State and local government | $706 thousand | 0.2% | +1434.8% | 343 |
| All sources | $418.4 million | 100.0% | +14.1% | 85 |
Fields of research
The 10 NSF research fields Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center reported in FY2024, largest first.
| Field | FY2024 | Share | Change on FY2023 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life sciences | $199.0 million | 47.6% | +11.0% | 88 |
| Non-S&E | $53.0 million | 12.7% | +23.7% | 42 |
| Engineering | $50.6 million | 12.1% | +22.8% | 100 |
| Social sciences | $26.3 million | 6.3% | +16.3% | 38 |
| Physical sciences | $25.9 million | 6.2% | +5.3% | 76 |
| Computer and information sciences | $19.9 million | 4.8% | +8.7% | 54 |
| Psychology | $15.8 million | 3.8% | +2.5% | 30 |
| Mathematics and statistics | $10.9 million | 2.6% | +5.8% | 19 |
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | $10.5 million | 2.5% | +14.0% | 88 |
| Other sciences | $6.5 million | 1.6% | +109.8% | 55 |
Neighbours
Ranked around Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Institutions ranked immediately above and below
The five institutions ranked above Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the five below it in the FY2024 national ranking.
| Rank | Institution | FY2024 R&D |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | Utah State University | $451.4M |
| 81 | California Institute of Technology | $445.2M |
| 82 | University of Connecticut | $433.5M |
| 83 | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge | $431.4M |
| 84 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, The | $419.1M |
| 85 | Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center | $418.4M |
| 86 | Washington State University | $403.4M |
| 87 | Auburn University, Auburn | $393.6M |
| 88 | Wichita State University | $392.3M |
| 89 | University of Tennessee, The, Knoxville | $386.9M |
| 90 | George Washington University, The | $381.6M |
Keep looking
Where this institution sits
Related rankings
Benchmark Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center against its peers.
Request a demoData: NSF HERD FY2024, built from NSF's published tables on September 8, 2026. Page updated September 13, 2026.
Data: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research and Development Survey, FY2024.
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.