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Leading the nation in research and innovation
ASU is one of the fastest growing research enterprises in the United States. Our research expenditures have more than doubled over the past 10 years.
#1 innovation ASU ahead of MIT and Stanford-U.S. News & World Report, 2016-24
#1 sustainabilityASU ahead of Stanford and UC Berkeley-Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Ranking Systems, 2023
#1 global impactASU ahead of MIT and Penn State-Times Higher Education, 2020-23
Rankings by research expenditures
Source: National Science Foundation HERD Survey 2022
#1 Transdisciplinary research, ahead of Johns Hopkins, Northwestern and the University of Pittsburgh
#1 Anthropology ahead of Harvard, Duke and the University of Michigan
#2 Business management and business administration, ahead of the University of Chicago, Duke and Columbia
#2 Education ahead of UCLA, Michigan State University and University of Oregon
#3 Geological and earth sciences, ahead of MIT, Penn State and Virginia Tech
#3 Social sciences ahead of Cornell, UCLA and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
#5 Total research expenditures among institutions without a medical school
#5 Political science and government, ahead of Penn State, Duke and Tufts
#6 Civil engineering, ahead of Duke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Clemson
ASU innovations 2023
In fiscal year 2023, ASU innovators working with Skysong Innovations* generated:
315 invention disclosures
160 U.S. patents
21 new startup companies
* Skysong Innovations is ASU’s exclusive intellectual property management company.
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