Hopkins ranks No. 1 in R&D spending

For the 26th year in a row, The Johns Hopkins University has been ranked by the National Science Foundation as the leading U.S. academic institution in terms of research and development spending.

“Discoveries and innovations that provide lasting benefit to humanity are the ultimate goals of the scientific, medical and engineering research done at Johns Hopkins,” William J. Brody, the university?s president, said in a statement. “But we are also gratified that our scientists? success in winning support for their research has a major economic benefit at home here in Maryland, where the university is one of the state?s largest private employers.”