NYU’s Improved Ranking as a Research University

I mentioned this yesterday during the IT spotlight awards, but not all of you were there. Stop a minute and give yourself a pat on the back. We don’t do the research, but we support researchers and research across NYU.We are all part of the NYU team and it is great to be part of a winning team!

Memorandum
Date: November 30, 2023
To: The Senior Leadership Team
From: Stacie Bloom, Vice Provost for Research & Chief Research Officer
Re: NYU’s Improved Ranking as a Research University

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased that New York University is now ranked #1 in New York City and #2 in New York State per The National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development report, released today. For the first time, NYU is among the top 15 institutions nationally, at $1.27B in annual R&D expenditures.

NYU moved up from #23 to #15 overall, and up two spots from #9 to #7 among private universities, compared to last year. Among the top 30 institutions, only three changed by more than 3 positions while NYU moved by a whopping 8 positions, Yale moved down 6 to #21, and Texas A&M University, College Station and Health Science Center moved down 7 to #23. Columbia is ranked at #18.

These data reflect the continued success of our faculty, researchers, and staff in supporting and growing our research portfolio. Over the past ten years, NYU was the second fastest growing research-intensive US university based on research expenditures (Chronicle of Higher Education). During this time, NYU’s research expenditures increased by 20%, more than any other institution in the top 50, with the University (exclusive of GSOM) seeing a 24% year over year increase.

The expansion of our research enterprise is thanks to the excellence and effort of so many individuals throughout the University. We are immensely proud of and grateful for everyone’s dedication and commitment.

With continued investment and effort, I am confident we will maintain our competitive position. We need to ensure that our proposal pipelines remain strong and our awards portfolio continues to grow so that we can sustain this rank.

I once again remind you that all of your school-level data (proposals, awards, expenditures etc) is available on SLIP under RESEARCH where you can search by school, department, sponsor, trends over time, indirect recovery, individual principal investigators, and much more. We encourage you to please use this critical tool.

Thanks for all of your support. Onward for another successful year.

Stacie