Leading the nation in research and innovation

$675M estimated research expenditure in FY21.

ASU is one of the fastest growing research enterprises in the United States. Our research expenditures have nearly doubled over the past 10 years.

Rankings by research expenditures

#6 Total research expenditures among institutions without a medical school

#1 Transdisciplinary research, ahead of Northwestern, the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins

#1 Geological and earth sciences, ahead of MIT, Penn State and the University of Arizona

#1 Anthropology, ahead of the University of Michigan, Harvard and Stanford

#3 Social sciences, ahead of Cornell, UCLA and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

#4 Business management and business administration, ahead of Dartmouth, Northwestern and Duke

#9 Education, ahead of the University of Wisconsin, Madison; NYU and UCLA

#10 Civil engineering, ahead of Stanford, MIT and Duke

#9 HHS-funded expenditures (including NIH), among institutions without a medical school

Source: National Science Foundation HERD Survey 2020

ASU innovations 2021

In fiscal year 2021, ASU innovators working with Skysong Innovations* generated:

• 301 invention disclosures

• 157 U.S. patents

• 21 new startup companies

*Skysong Innovations is ASU’s exclusive intellectual property management company.