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Leading the nation
in research and innovation $675M estimated
ASU is one of the fastest growing research enterprises in the United States. Our research expenditures have nearly doubled over the past 10 years.
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Rankings by research expenditures Source: National Science Foundation HERD Survey 2020
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Transdisciplinary research, ahead of
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Geological and earth sciences, ahead of
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Northwestern, the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins
MIT, Penn State and the University of Arizona
Business management and business administration, ahead of Dartmouth, Northwestern and Duke
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Anthropology,
ahead of the University of Michigan, Harvard and Stanford
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Social sciences,
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Education, ahead
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ahead of Cornell, UCLA and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
of the University of Wisconsin, Madison; NYU and UCLA