Historic Ranking Information

Please note that while this site contains reports that rank various organizations for fiscal years 1996 through 2005, NIH no longer provides these comparative ranking tables on its medical research funding. Instead, NIH has developed a Web-based tool that allows you to determine the dollars awarded to any one organization or department. The tool will also allow you to download aggregate data, on a per fiscal year basis, so that you can conduct your own analysis.

This change comes in part from responses received from the grantee community that suggested that the current ranking tables were not necessary (see NIH Guide notice Request for Information on the Plan to Recognize Multiple Principal Investigators on NIH Grants) and in part by the establishment of Multiple Investigator Awards (see NIH Guide notice Establishment of Multiple Principal Investigator Awards for the Support of Team Science Projects) making the total dollar amounts of funds received by individual departments impractical.

The following link will direct you to the most current data: Award Data for Individual Organizations. Historical reports that show ranking follow below.

• All Institutions: 2005 (Excel - 570 KB),    All Institutions: 2004 - 1996
• 2005 By State    2004 By State    2003 By State    2002 By State (in rank order by total dollars)
• Domestic Higher Education FY 2005    Domestic Higher Education FY 2004
• Independent Hospitals: 2005    Independent Hospitals: 2004    Independent Hospitals: 2003    Independent Hospitals: 2002    Independent Hospitals: 2001    Independent Hospitals: 2000 (TXT - 22 KB)    Independent Hospitals: 1985-2000 (TXT - 479 KB)
• Medical Schools: 2005    Medical Schools: 2004-1996
• Research Institutes: 2005    Research Institutes: 2004    Research Institutes: 2003    Research Institutes: 2002    Research Institutes: 2001    Research Institutes: 2000 (TXT - 41 KB)   Research Institutes: 1985-2000 (TXT - 654 KB)
• Not for Profit Institutions FY 2000-1985 (TXT - 3.05 MB)
• Top 100 Cities   FY 2003   FY 2002   FY 2001   FY 2000 (TXT - 8 KB)