University Park, Pennsylvania
$1.3B of research spend a year
Campus photo by George Chriss · CC BY 2.5
NSF reports this R&D across all campuses in one row, so the figure is not Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus alone and is excluded from the national ranking. Area is proportional to spend; the nine science and engineering fields sum to the total.
5,249 full-time academic staff
One square = 25 staff.
664 more instructional staff are part-time, not counted above.
IPEDS splits instruction from research inconsistently between schools, so the parent total here is all full-time academic staff rather than instructional faculty alone.