Farm Funding

Over the last 50 years, Stanford has grown reliant on the federal government to pay for research on campus.

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by Jock Friedly

Who Sends the Money? Dept. of Energy SLAC-32%, Dept. of Health and Human Services-30%, NASA-15%, Dept. of Defense-11%, National Science Foundation-7%, Dept. of Energy excluding SLAC-2%, Other-4%

Trends: Federal funding of higher education has driven Stanford's overall budget and its research budget steadily upward during hte period 1945-97.

America's Most Funded Universities ($ in millions) #1 John Hopkins-$706.0, #2 U. of Washington-$291.3, #3 UC-San Diego-284.4, #4 U. of Michigan-$276.0, #5 MIT-$273.5, #6 Stanford-$273.2 (Not including SLAC), #7 U. of Wisconsin-$229.4, #8 UC-San Francisco-$224.3, #9 Cornell-$207.4, #10 Columbia-$206.5

Stanford Revenue $1.4 billion Federal Funds-40% : Direct Research costs-17%, SLAC-15%, Indirect research costs-6%, Student aid and other-2%; All Other Sources-60% : Tuition-23%, Endowment earnings-12%, Private gifts, grants and contracts-13%, Other-12%

SOURCES: Stanford University; U.S. Department of Education