Stats & Rankings

Research Stats

Fiscal year 2012 was a record year in the competitive arena of research grant & contract awards at the University of Kentucky.

• Grant & contract awards totaled $274,142,405
• Federal agencies awarded $152.3 million, 55.5% of UK’s total awards
• State agencies awarded $65.6 million
• Industry awarded $20.2 million

Related Links

• Research 2012 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

• 35th among public universities
• 58th among public and private universities
  (Based on FY 2010 research expenditures. NSF made significant changes to their reporting methodology for the FY 2010 survey.)