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University of Colorado at Boulder
Sponsored research expenditures and awards by department, 1968 to present
Click here for the large Excel file that shows awards and
expenditures 1968 through fiscal year 2007-2008. It will be updated annually in December after release of the
Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) annual report.
This report is updated in November with figures for the previous fiscal year (i.e. report released
in November 2002 contains data from fiscal year 2001-2002).
Highlights with notes on query methods
- In fiscal year 2008, 11 PBA units had $7 million or more in sponsored research expenditures, accounting
together for $184 million of the total $259 million in expenditures (71%). Four of the 11 units are
institutes (CIRES, IBG, JILA, and LASP), plus aerospace engineering, astrophysical and planetary sciences (APS)
, chemistry, chemical engineering, MCDB, physics and psychology.
- See these results using the "top 10" data filter in the "PBA units summary" tab with
the measure "Exp. in unit, last FY"
- In the same year, eight instructional PBA units had $2 million or more in sponsored research expenditures allocated from
non-instructional PBA units (i.e. institutes or administrative units) based on the tenure department of the principal
investigator (PI) on an individual project. These eight units accounted for $70 million of the total $79 million in
allocated expenditures (88%). These eight units are APS, computer science, geography, geology, integrative physiology,
physics, psychology, and sociology. Click here for more information on allocation methods.
- See these results using the "top 10" data filter in the "PBA units summary" tab with
the measure "Exp. allocated from institutes, last FY"
- 25 PBA units have had sponsored research activity in all 41 fiscal years since 1968
- "Top 10" data filter, "PBA units summary", "Yrs w activity FY68+"
- The number of sponsored research awards increased from 285 in fiscal year 1968 to 1,798 in fiscal year 2008
- Use the "Pivot w FYs" tab with all years displayed to see these results.
- Sponsored research expenditures over the last five fiscal years (2004-2008) have totaled over
one billion dollars ($1.29 billion). Ninety-three percent of these have been in A&S natural science units (24%),
engineering units (14%), and the research institutes (55%).
Format of the Excel file
Data are shown:
- By "OCG unit," to match listings in OCG reports
- And by "PBA department," a simpler grouping with one entry per
A&S and Engineering department, one entry for each other school and college, for each institute, plus a few
additional groupings
- With VC division, college, and A&S cluster shown for each unit in all listings
- By individual fiscal year
- And summarized over all fiscal years since 1968, the most recent five fiscal years,
and most recent fiscal year
- With both awards (number and amount, from fiscal year 1968 to fiscal year 2007-2008) and
expenditures (from fiscal year 1998 to fiscal year 2007-2008). OCG cautions that "the most
accurate way to make year-to-year comparisons of data on research and other sponsored program
activity is to look at actual expenditures." This is primarily because awards can be multiyear.
- With expenditures in the individual unit
- And with expenditures allocated from research institutes to instructional units, for
fiscal year 1999-2000 and later only, based on the tenure department of the PI from
institute expenditures. Previous versions of this file were done with a gross approximation.
Click here for more information on allocation methods and a comparison between the two
calculations.
- In listings which can be further summarized or filtered
- And in pivot tables of two types: with school, college, cluster, and division results
and for reconciling to OCG totals
The file also includes definitions, correspondence between OCG and PBA units, and derivation of the
allocation of research institute expenditures to academic departments in 2002.
CAUTION: The Excel file is quite large (1,300 kb). We recommend
downloading to your own machine if you intend to do additional queries or manipulations.
Also see sponsored research expenditures by the principal
investigator's (PI) job category, code and title (FY 2007-08)
PBA: L:\datalib\Depts\Rsrch\
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