ASU Growth

AT ASU, WE SEE EACH YEAR AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, DISCOVERY, INNOVATION
AND POSITIVE IMPACT.

In FY 2016, ASU sustained its distinction as the fastest-growing research enterprise among universities with more than $100 million in research expenditures. This growth reflects funding for new and continuing research, including the first ASU-led NASA mission and the creation of ASU’s second National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC). ASU is now the only university in the country to lead two ERCs. Our research growth and success in securing competitive awards is fueled by our commitment to excellence. Even as we achieve year-over-year growth in research expenditures, we continue to earn recognition for the high caliber of our students and graduates, faculty and researchers, and our impact on the community. These achievements reflect our commitment to growing a research enterprise that educates master learners and enhances our local community, state, nation and world.

In FY 2016 ASU achieved:

$518.2 million in total research expenditures, a 13% increase over FY 2015
$1.8 billion in proposal submissions
$390 million in new award obligations

ASU rose in many key rankings for total research expenditures in the most recent National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development survey, including:

10th for total research expenditures among institutions without a medical school, ahead of Caltech, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon
3rd for earth sciences, ahead of Stanford, Berkeley and MIT
4th for transdisciplinary sciences, ahead of Northwestern,
MIT and UCLA
5th for social sciences, ahead of Berkeley, Cornell and UCLA
8th for electrical engineering, ahead of UT Austin, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon
10th for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)-funded expenditures among institutions without a medical school, ahead of Princeton, Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon
11th for NASA-funded expenditures, ahead of Stanford, Georgia Tech and UCLA
12th for humanities, ahead of Harvard, Berkeley and Princeton

ASU TO LEAD DEEP-SPACE NASA MISSION FOR 1ST TIME

ASU leads multi-institutional sustainability network

DoD, Army and
Navy rely on
ASU researcH

NIH tasks ASU with investigating effects of migration on children

Cutting edge technology
coming to ASU

NSF invests to expand ASU’s Decision Center
for a Desert City

ASU researchers pioneer new renewable
energy source

ASU leading
effort to educate Pakistani women

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AT ASU, WE SEE EACH YEAR AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, DISCOVERY, INNOVATION AND POSITIVE IMPACT.

In FY 2016 ASU achieved:

ASU rose in many key rankings for total research expenditures in the most recent National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development survey, including:

AT ASU, WE SEE EACH YEAR AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, DISCOVERY, INNOVATION
AND POSITIVE IMPACT.