Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick research and development spending, FY2024
- New Brunswick, NJ
- R1
- Public
- Standard form filer
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick in FY2024
$836.8 million
spent on research and development in FY2024, as reported to the NSF HERD Survey
- National rank
- #45 of 925
- Change on FY2023
- up 0.6%
- Rank change
- down 3
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick reported $836.8 million of research and development spending in FY2024, ranking #45 of the 925 institutions in the survey. That is up 0.6% on FY2023's $831.7 million; its national rank was down 3 places. Federal government is its largest funding source at 48.8% ($408.3 million), followed by institution funds at 20.8%. Its largest field of research is life sciences, $638.5 million or 76.3% 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 | $428.4 million | 41 |
| FY2011 | $432.3 million | 43 |
| FY2012 | $434.9 million | 44 |
| FY2013 | $493.3 million | 40 |
| FY2014 | $644.1 million | 31 |
| FY2015 | $628.6 million | 32 |
| FY2016 | $630.2 million | 32 |
| FY2017 | $681.7 million | 33 |
| FY2018 | $706.3 million | 34 |
| FY2019 | $657.2 million | 41 |
| FY2020 | $688.1 million | 40 |
| FY2021 | $644.0 million | 45 |
| FY2022 | $712.2 million | 46 |
| FY2023 | $831.7 million | 42 |
| FY2024 | $836.8 million | 45 |
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 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal government | $408.3 million | 48.8% | +1.8% | 50 |
| Institution funds | $174.0 million | 20.8% | −15.9% | 58 |
| State and local government | $121.4 million | 14.5% | +3.3% | 8 |
| Business | $88.8 million | 10.6% | +136.9% | 20 |
| Nonprofit organizations | $40.7 million | 4.9% | −36.6% | 48 |
| All other sources | $3.6 million | 0.4% | −21.6% | 123 |
| All sources | $836.8 million | 100.0% | +0.6% | 45 |
Fields of research
The 10 NSF research fields Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick reported in FY2024, largest first.
| Field | FY2024 | Share | Change on FY2023 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life sciences | $638.5 million | 76.3% | +3.1% | 35 |
| Engineering | $58.7 million | 7.0% | −5.1% | 87 |
| Non-S&E | $44.4 million | 5.3% | +15.8% | 59 |
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | $35.6 million | 4.2% | +0.0% | 35 |
| Physical sciences | $23.4 million | 2.8% | −17.2% | 79 |
| Psychology | $13.7 million | 1.6% | −11.4% | 38 |
| Social sciences | $7.7 million | 0.9% | −26.6% | 114 |
| Computer and information sciences | $7.6 million | 0.9% | −9.9% | 109 |
| Mathematics and statistics | $7.1 million | 0.9% | −39.9% | 37 |
| Other sciences | $59 thousand | 0.0% | −97.4% | 240 |
Neighbours
Ranked around Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Institutions ranked immediately above and below
The five institutions ranked above Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and the five below it in the FY2024 national ranking.
| Rank | Institution | FY2024 R&D |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | $906.8M |
| 41 | Indiana University, Bloomington | $897.0M |
| 42 | Baylor College of Medicine | $881.2M |
| 43 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, The | $869.3M |
| 44 | University of Alabama at Birmingham, The | $865.9M |
| 45 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | $836.8M |
| 46 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville | $813.8M |
| 47 | University of Utah, The | $789.3M |
| 48 | Boston University | $784.4M |
| 49 | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | $741.6M |
| 50 | University of Cincinnati | $739.9M |
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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.
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