Expenditures by Unit
Sources
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of Research Grants, Extramural Awards to Domestic Higher Education Institutions, FY 2001
Includes all higher education institutions that received support from the National Institutes of Health. There were 515 rankings in FY 2001.
All grant applications to the NIH are subject to a rigorous peer-review process. Because of this and because NIH is the major funding source for biomedical research, success in obtaining basic science and clinical funding from NIH is an important measure of the quality of an institution and its faculty. Competition for NIH funding has increased dramatically in the past decade, and UT-Houston’s ranking relative to similar institutions is an indicator of the university’s growth in research quality. Since the ranking system used in this survey takes into account total NIH dollars received, institutions with large numbers of faculty tend to rank higher than those with fewer faculty. Given the small number of UT-Houston faculty relative to some of the other universities in this survey, UT-Houston fares well in the comparison.
Comparison of NIH Award Recipients pdf file.
