THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
 

A recent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the top 100 institutions for federal research-and-development expenditures in 1998 and 1999 shows seven UC campuses among those universities. Please note that, with the exception of Johns Hopkins University, this list does not include expenditures for federally sponsored laboratories such as the UC-managed laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore, and Los Alamos. In the case of Johns Hopkins, the total includes expenditures for its federally sponsored Applied Physics Laboratory.

UC's ranking is even better than it first appears. If one looks at the top 22 institutions, all 22, with the exception of MIT, Cal Tech, and UC Berkeley, have medical schools that account for a major part of their funding. If the federal research expenditures for UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco were combined to create comparability with the 19 institutions that have medical schools, together these two campuses would lead the list (discounting Johns Hopkins University, over half of whose funding is attributable to its Applied Physics Laboratory).

Systemwide, the University of California, including the national laboratories, continues its impressive performance, with over $3.70 billion federal R&D expenditures in 1998, and over $3.86 billion in 1999. By way of comparison, all of the Big Ten schools combined were at $1.75 billion in 1998 and $1.86 billion in 1999, and the total for all Ivy League universities was $1.35 billion in 1998 and $1.45 billion in 1999. UC's total for those years is greater than the Big Ten and Ivy League schools combined. I am enclosing for your information the table from The Chronicle showing the top 100 institutions, and a table showing UC in comparison with the Big Ten and Ivy League universities.

                                                                                                Yours truly,

                                                                                                Richard C. Atkinson
                                                                                                President

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