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ARLINGTON, Virginia  - 05/18/04 - Los Angeles tops the list of US cities in terms of research and development (R&D) expenditures among the top 100 ranked universities, while San Francisco ranked fifth, according to data collected by the National Science Foundation.
 
The data - which was compiled for 2001, the last year that complete figures are available - included all sources of R&D funding, including government and private sources.
 
Using criteria that defines cities as directly adjacent metropolitan areas - "Los Angeles" includes Pasadena; "Boston" includes Cambridge; and  "San Francisco" includes Berkeley but not Stanford - Los Angeles edged out Baltimore for the first time since the Foundation began collecting R&D data.

Los Angeles universities received $1.3 billion in R&D, distributed among the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), and the University of Southern California (USC).

Baltimore came in just behind Los Angeles in 2001, with $1,2 billion garnered by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland-Baltimore.

New York City came in third place in 2001, largely because the city had far more universities included in the top 100, rather than the strength of any single institution. New York City universities, which include Columbia University, New York University (NYU), Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, and Rockefeller University, totaled $1 billion in R&D expenditures.

Boston, which is home to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Boston University, came in fourth place in 2001 with $979 million in university R&D expenditures.

San Francisco ranked closely behind Boston with $971,248,000 in R&D funds expended by the University of San Francisco (USF) and the University of California-Berkeley.

Other California cities on the Top 20 list were San Diego (11); Stanford (12); and Davis (16).

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