Stats & Rankings

Research Stats

Fiscal year 2011 was a record year in the competitive arena of research grants & contracts at the University of Kentucky.

• Grants & contracts totaled $299,110,000
• Federal agencies awarded $167.3 million, 55.9% of UK’s total awards
• State agencies awarded $70.1 million
• Industry awarded $20.7 million

Related Links

• Research 2011 handout (1-page pdf)
• Research charts
• Commercialization stats

National Rankings

Each year the National Science Foundation (NSF) publishes a survey that ranks the top universities according to what they spend on research in the sciences and engineering. The NSF survey is considered to be the primary source of information on R&D expenditures within academia. For more information, see: NSF Publications & Data.

National Science Foundation (NSF) rankings

• 30th among public universities
• 49th among public and private universities
  (Source: NSF's annual survey on research expenditures, FY 09)