82 labs · 8 departments on NabuNorthwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Research funding
top 4% nationally$1.3B of research spend a year
Life sciences74%
Campus photo by Rdsmith4 · CC BY-SA 2.5
82 labs · 8 departments on NabuEvanston, Illinois
$1.3B of research spend a year
Campus photo by Rdsmith4 · CC BY-SA 2.5
Area is proportional to spend. The nine science and engineering fields sum to the total; non-S&E spend — the law school and the business school — is left out.
Total R&D ÷ research doctorates awarded. Funding depth per doctoral student.
Research run per PI. A large school can outspend a small one and still run less per lab.
3,694 full-time academic staff
One square = 20 staff.
417 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.