The University of California, San Diego ranked seventh among the top 10 U.S. universities in receiving and expending federal research and development funding for fiscal 2002-2003, according to newly released figures from the National Science Foundation.

The Foundation reported that UCSD spent a total $646.5 million in R&D funds for research during the period. Other research universities in the top 10, in order, were Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin-Madison, Washington, UC San Francisco, UCSD, Stanford, Pennsylvania and Cornell.

Richard Attiyeh, vice chancellor for research, noted that UCSD has remained among the top 10 research universities in R&D obligations and expenditures for over a decade. The research rankings tracked by the NSF are typically several years behind the calendar year, he explained.

Meanwhile, Attiyeh noted that the total of all awards for research contracts and grants at UCSD from all sources totaled $728.4 million for fiscal 2004-2005.

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