I’m a high school senior applying to college, and I noticed some of the schools I’m applying to have much higher federal budgets for research than others, like Ohio State gets a lot more than Purdue. How much does this actually matter for college research programs?
(I’m applying to engineering btw.)
tOSU has over 20,000 more students than Purdue.
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Federal expenditures for R&D are a rough surrogate marker for how much research, particularly STEM research, activity goes on at a college or university. Although outlays have tended to flatten out in recent years due to attempts to slow down the growth of the federal budget, United States tax dollars have traditionally been a major, if not the major engine of basic (i.e., research without an immediate monetary payoff) scientific research in the world.
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