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SURA Members by State and Other Institutional Data. Aug 13, 2003 Source: www.sura.org. SURA Region. Alabama - 5. Arkansas - 1. Delaware - 1. Florida - 8. Georgia - 5. Kentucky - 1. Louisiana - 5. Maryland - 1. Mississippi - 3. North Carolina - 5. Oklahoma - 1. South Carolina - 2.
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SURA Members by Stateand Other Institutional Data Aug 13, 2003 Source: www.sura.org
Federal R&D Rankings (2001) • One measure of a research university’s “success” is annual federal R&D funding • The SURA region had 33 of the top 100 research universities & academic med ctrs, accounting for 29% of 2001 R&D • Only one, Johns Hopkins, is in the top 20
Carnegie Classifications 2000 • In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching restructured its well-known, if controversial, institutional classification system • DR Ext – “Doctoral/research universities-extensive” is a new category (with more institutions than the former “top” category, Research I) for institutions that confer 50 doctorates a year in at least 15 disciplines
Carnegie Classifications (con’t) • 52 universities in the SURA region are classified as “DR Ext” • Note that independent health science centers have their own category • http://chronicle.com/stats/carnegie/
Feedback welcome • Dan Updegrove • The University of Texas at Austin • (512) 331-5098 • d.updegrove@its.utexas.edu • Data compiled Aug 13, 2003