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The Real Battle Is for Second Place

Sep 18, 2008

This article from the Baltimore Business Journal reports on NSF's ranking of top 20 US universities by research expenditures. Johns Hopkins ranked highest after spending $1.55 billion in fiscal year 2007, the article says. This is the 29th year that Hopkins holds the top position on the list. Next on the list: the University of California, San Francisco ($843 million), and the University of Wisconsin ($620 million).

 

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