University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The research and development spending, FY2024
- Chapel Hill, NC
- R1
- Public
- Standard form filer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The in FY2024
$1.6 billion
spent on research and development in FY2024, as reported to the NSF HERD Survey
- National rank
- #11 of 925
- Change on FY2023
- up 3.2%
- Rank change
- down 2
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The reported $1.6 billion of research and development spending in FY2024, ranking #11 of the 925 institutions in the survey. That is up 3.2% on FY2023's $1.5 billion; its national rank was down 2 places. Federal government is its largest funding source at 59.4% ($949.9 million), followed by institution funds at 26.3%. Its largest field of research is life sciences, $1.2 billion or 74.1% 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 | $755.3 million | 15 |
| FY2011 | $869.2 million | 13 |
| FY2012 | $884.8 million | 11 |
| FY2013 | $973.0 million | 9 |
| FY2014 | $989.8 million | 8 |
| FY2015 | $966.8 million | 11 |
| FY2016 | $1.0 billion | 11 |
| FY2017 | $1.1 billion | 11 |
| FY2018 | $1.1 billion | 12 |
| FY2019 | $1.2 billion | 12 |
| FY2020 | $1.2 billion | 13 |
| FY2021 | $1.2 billion | 13 |
| FY2022 | $1.4 billion | 12 |
| FY2023 | $1.5 billion | 9 |
| FY2024 | $1.6 billion | 11 |
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The 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 | $949.9 million | 59.4% | +4.6% | 13 |
| Institution funds | $419.8 million | 26.3% | +2.9% | 9 |
| Nonprofit organizations | $96.9 million | 6.1% | +4.6% | 19 |
| Business | $55.9 million | 3.5% | −4.0% | 36 |
| State and local government | $53.1 million | 3.3% | −13.7% | 31 |
| All other sources | $23.2 million | 1.5% | +6.7% | 40 |
| All sources | $1.6 billion | 100.0% | +3.2% | 11 |
Fields of research
The 10 NSF research fields University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The reported in FY2024, largest first.
| Field | FY2024 | Share | Change on FY2023 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life sciences | $1.2 billion | 74.1% | +3.8% | 12 |
| Social sciences | $92.7 million | 5.8% | −3.1% | 6 |
| Non-S&E | $62.5 million | 3.9% | −14.9% | 30 |
| Engineering | $61.7 million | 3.9% | +24.1% | 83 |
| Physical sciences | $55.4 million | 3.5% | +6.7% | 38 |
| Psychology | $54.1 million | 3.4% | −4.3% | 1 |
| Computer and information sciences | $50.2 million | 3.1% | +21.4% | 10 |
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | $31.2 million | 2.0% | −8.5% | 41 |
| Mathematics and statistics | $5.1 million | 0.3% | +4.3% | 48 |
| Other sciences | $370 thousand | 0.0% | +166.2% | 171 |
Neighbours
Ranked around University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The
Institutions ranked immediately above and below
The five institutions ranked above University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The and the five below it in the FY2024 national ranking.
| Rank | Institution | FY2024 R&D |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | University of California, Los Angeles | $1.9B |
| 7 | University of California, San Diego | $1.9B |
| 8 | University of Washington, Seattle | $1.7B |
| 9 | Stanford University | $1.6B |
| 10 | Cornell University | $1.6B |
| 11 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The | $1.6B |
| 12 | Ohio State University, The | $1.6B |
| 13 | Duke University | $1.6B |
| 14 | University of Maryland | $1.5B |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology | $1.5B |
| 16 | Yale University | $1.5B |
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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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