6 Schools invited to AAU (USF, Miami & ND to AAU)

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Huge congrats to the 6 new schools who were invited to join the AAU today:

— Notre Dame
— Arizona State
— Miami
— UC Riverside
— South Florida
— George Washington

All of their staff, leaders, alums, and fans should be… pic.twitter.com/3hyKJguYGR

— Tony Altimore (@TJAltimore) June 1, 2023

 US News doesn't matter for AAU membership.

New members and FSU:
18 Notre Dame
55 Florida State
55 Miami
62 George Washington
89 UC Riverside
97 USF
121 Arizona State

We are at the higher end of the list per IS News but had zero chance of being invited to the AAU today.

Other AAU schools who are below FSU in US News ranking but perform better than FSU in research:

62 Minnesota
62 Pitt
67 Texas A&M
72 Indiana
77 Michigan State
77 Penn State
77 Stony Brook
83 UC Santa Cruz
83 Iowa
89 Buffalo
97 Colorado
105 Arizona
105 Oregon
105 Utah
115 Rutgers
121 Kansas
121 Missouri

Literally ~1/3 of all AAU members are ranked below FSU in the US News rankings. Ergo, the US News rankings have ZERO affect on AAU qualification or membership.

Research Awards	Compound Growth Rate 2002-2022	Total $ Increase 2002-2022	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
FSU	3.56%	$139,500,000	$287,400,000	$275,000,000	$250,100,000	$233,600,000	$226,000,000	$210,376,625	$190,074,661	$200,828,450	$230,132,510	$200,200,000	$190,300,000	$203,500,000	$215,300,000	$200,000,000	$195,800,000	$193,000,000	$190,000,000	$162,700,000	$182,700,000	$161,800,000	$147,900,000
UF	4.90%	$647,800,000	$1,085,000,000	$861,000,000	$900,700,000	$776,200,000	$837,600,000	$686,000,000	$724,000,000	$706,800,000	$701,697,045	$619,000,000	$644,400,000	$619,123,221	$678,000,000	$574,000,000	$561,600,000	$583,000,000	$518,800,000	$494,000,000	$470,000,000	$458,100,000	$437,200,000
UCF	4.85%	$109,920,838	$185,320,838	$212,900,000	$204,000,000	$192,100,000	$183,120,000	$148,790,000	$145,800,000	$133,400,000	$145,600,000	$113,000,000	$128,900,000	$106,600,000	$133,300,000	$121,700,000	$122,800,000	$121,400,000	$104,400,000	$103,600,000	$82,800,000	$88,800,000	$75,400,000
USF	5.21%	$338,102,310	$546,000,000	$568,000,000	$535,400,000	$525,000,000	$558,000,000	$475,200,000	$458,506,047	$441,000,000	$429,000,000	$413,631,188	$411,061,232	$391,800,356	$394,065,662	$380,325,875	$360,169,573	$308,429,278	$310,150,152	$287,227,601	$290,108,101	$254,748,747	$207,897,690
FIU	5.87%	$124,863,915	$188,763,915	$310,000,000	$196,600,000	$157,000,000	$140,918,000	$126,653,706	$116,365,781	$118,050,621	$115,844,100	$102,975,212	$100,800,000	$104,600,000	$100,500,000	$88,800,000	$72,800,000	$90,400,000	$91,400,000	$78,900,000	$62,100,000	$75,500,000	$63,900,000

NIH award grants FY23

UF $114 Million
Miami $64 Million
USF $57 Million
FSU $29 Million

UCF $6.9 million

How is FSU doing under President Barron?

I also haven't seen any clear movement or acknowledgement of the lack of research at the College of Medicine or how to improve the quality of our College of Engineering. I also don't understand why we are allowing schools like USF to add Pharmacy, FIU to add Physician's Assistant and FAMU and UCF try to add Dentistry programs and we aren't seeking out any of these programs ourselves. Programs like Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physician's Assistant would fit in well with Nursing and Medicine and there are jobs to be had and quality salaries to be earned in these fields. I get why there's no Pharmacy effort due to FAMU having one, but if a new Dentistry program is to be added, shouldn't it be at one of the state's pre-eminent universities that does a better job than these competitor schools at preparing their students to pass their respective state licensure exams?

Research expenditures as of 2020 from the National Science Foundation:

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingbysource&ds=herd

#26 UF $942 million (which is going to be the biggest because of state funding for IFAS and Shands)
#75 FSU $350 million
#77 USF $333 million
#105 UCF $239 million
#106 FIU $236 million
#197 FAU $53 million
#221 FAMU $41 million
#222 UWF $40 million

Since 2011, FSU's expenditures have gone up 52%. UF's have gone up 27%. USF's have gone down by -16%. I also found it interesting is that USF's research #'s fell off a cliff a couple of years ago and continue to go down. That was pretty surprising to me, since they have a full research based medical school that has been around for decades. They were at $557 million just two years prior. I wonder if that had something to do with their satellite campuses being spun off.

The following AAU members are lower than FSU:

#78 Missouri
#79 Dartmouth
#98 Stony Brook U.
#114 Tufts U.
#116 Tulane
#124 Rice U.
#154 Oregon
#185 Brandeis U.

FSU is also very close to the following:

#70 Kansas
#66 Rochester

I really think we are getting there.

McCollough has said a couple times that we need to be around $500M. I think he will get us there too. He wants a big increase in NIH grants because that matters to the AAU.

2) Michigan - 1,673,862
7) UCLA - 1,392,941
8) Wisconsin - 1,363,931
16) Maryland - 1,103,062
20) Minnesota - 1,042,382
22) Penn State - 991,923
24) Ohio State - 968,260
27) USC - 941,198
29) Northwestern - 874,671
37) Indiana - 728,554
38) Michigan State - 713,197
39) Illinois - 689,176
40) Rutgers - 688,077
41) Purdue - 687,144
52) Iowa - 538,583
.......
81) Nebraska - 320,463
119) Nebraska Med School - 202,406

The separate administrative structure and counting of the Nebraska medical school played a large role in the university's expulsion from the AAU.

That is a great listing.

The ACC Conference currently has 5 AAU Research Universities (DUKE ,UNC, PITT, GIT and UVA).

Annual Research expenditures by each of the 5 ACC (AAU) schools are listed below:

DUKE: $ 1,196,638.
UNC: $ 1,159,725.
PITT: $ 1,105,532.
GIT: $ 1,048,988.
UVA: $ 652,002.

The ACC schools research expenditures compare well with the B1G AAU schools listed in a previous post. However, the ACC needs to get more AAU schools such as FSU.

Top 10 NIH Funding (FY 2022):

#1 Johns Hopkins: $839.9 million
#2 UCSF: $823.8 million
#3 Pitt: $675.4 million
#4 Duke: $672.5 million
#5 Penn: $668.4
#6 Stanford: $651.7 million
#7 Michigan: $644.3 million
#8 Leidos Biomedical Research: $625.1 million
#9 Washington Univ (St. Louis): $620.6 million
10 Columbia: $616.8 million

I believe NIH it is a component in the NSF report.

However, NIH funding can be a significant part of a Universities overall annual research expenditures.

Universities with outstanding Research Medical Schools can usually attract NIH sponsored funding.

US News "Americas Best Graduate Schools" 2023-2024 just released their ranking review 4/25/23.

US News Top 15 Research Medical Schools are listed below:

#1 Johns Hopkins University
#2 University of Pennsylvania
#3 Harvard University
#4 University of California (SF)
#4 Washington University (St. Louis) (tie)
#6 Columbia University
#7 Stanford University
#7 Yale University (tie)
#9 Duke University
#9 University of Michigan (tie)
#11 University of Pittsburgh
#12 Northwestern University
#13 New York University
#14 Cornell University
#14 Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (tie)