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MR-7 » 21 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

21 minutes ago

Brown isn’t even a top‑50 federal research recipient. They’re pulling in $254M a year while the big dogs are pulling billions. So yeah — as far as I’m concerned, my tax dollars are being wasted on a private Ivy that isn’t even in the top tier. Every Ivy League school outranks Brown in federal research funding. Brown is basically the bargain‑bin Ivy when it comes to taxpayer money — yet it still pulls $254M a year.           

  Top Tier (Billions)

1. Johns Hopkins — $3.4B
2. University of Washington — $1.6B
3. University of Michigan — $1.1B
4. UC San Diego — $1.1B
5. Stanford — ~$1.0B

Upper Tier (Hundreds of Millions)

1. Harvard — ~$900M
2. Duke — ~$700M
3. Yale — ~$600M
4. Columbia — ~$600M–$700M
5. UPenn — ~$600M
6. UCLA
7. UC San Francisco
8. University of Pittsburgh
9. University of Wisconsin–Madison
10. University of North Carolina
11. University of Minnesota
12. Cornell — ~$400M–$500M
13. Texas A&M
14. Ohio State
15. Georgia Tech
16. MIT — ~$800M
17. University of Arizona
18. University of Colorado Boulder
19. Penn State
20. University of Florida
21. University of Maryland
22. University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign
23. Washington University in St. Louis
24. Emory University
25. Vanderbilt University

Mid‑Tier (Still Ahead of Brown)

1. Princeton — ~$200M–$250M
2. Dartmouth — ~$200M
3. University of Iowa
4. University of Utah
5. Indiana University
6. University of Virginia
7. University of Chicago
8. Carnegie Mellon
9. University of Southern California
10. Northwestern University
11. Rutgers
12. Virginia Tech
13. University of Kansas
14. University of Kentucky
15. University of Nebraska
16. University of Tennessee
17. University of Alabama Birmingham
18. Oregon State
19. Colorado State
20. University of South Florida

…and dozens more, all above Brown’s $254M mark.📌 Bottom LineBrown is nowhere near the top. It sits around rank 70–80, meaning 70+ universities receive more federal research money than Brown every year.