<p>“Another glaring problem is the arbitrary separation of state university schools: for some, they count all campuses’ research expenditures, while for others they list them separately.”</p>
<p>Phantasmagoric, among the top 15 research-spending public universities, only 4 counted all campuses; Michigan, Ohio State, Pitt and TAMU. It turns out that in all 4 cases, 99% of research expenditure takes place at the flagship campus. Heck, I did not even know that OSU and Pitt had more than one entity, but in the case of Michigan and TAMU, close to 100% of research activity takes place at Ann Arbor and College Station respectively. For example, in the case of the University of Michigan, only $6 million of its $1.1 billion research expenditure took place at the Dearborn and Flint campuses. The rest all took place at the Ann Arbor campus.</p>