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Higher Education Research and Development
Published by National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
About this dataset
The Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities. The survey collects information on R&D expenditures by field of research and source of funds and also gathers information on types of research, expenses, and R&D personnel. The survey is an annual census of institutions that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year.
Tags
- Clinical trial R&D expenditures
- Federally funded R&D expenditures by federal agency
- Geographic location within the United States
- Headcount of R&D personnel
- Institutional characteristics (i.e. highest degree granted, historically black college or university [HBCU], high Hispanic enrollment [HHE], public or private control)
- Medical school R&D expenditures
- R&D equipment expenditures by field
- R&D expenditures by cost categories (e.g. salaries, software, equipment, indirect costs)
- R&D expenditures by type of R&D (i.e. basic research, applied research and experimental development)
- R&D expenditures funded from foreign sources
- R&D expenditures passed through to subrecipients
- R&D expenditures received as a subrecipient
- Research and Development
- higher education R&D
- R&D expenditures by field
- R&D expenditures by source of funds (i.e.,federal government, state and local government, business, nonprofit, institutional and other)