US National Science Foundation Report on Federal R&D Support to US Universities. (October 22, 2009)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) notes that: the federal government remains the largest source of academic R&D funding, but its share has dropped from 64 % in FY 2005 to 60 % in FY 2008, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation.

The top five universities in federal R&D funding for FY 2008:

1. Johns Hopkins University ($1.68 billion including JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory);

2. University of California, San Francisco ($885 million);

3. University of Wisconsin, Madison ($882 million);

4. University of Michigan, all campuses ($876 million);

5. University of California, Los Angeles ($871 million).

The institutions constituting the top five have remained the same since FY 2004.