JMU TOPS $20 MILLION MARK IN EXTERNAL FUNDING FOR RESEARCH

From: Media Relations

August 26, 2003

HARRISONBURG – Grants and other external funding for research, instruction, public service and other scholarly activities to James Madison University and its faculty and researchers topped the $20 million mark for the first time in 2002-03.

The total of $20,303,968 is an 11 percent increase above the previous fiscal-year total of $18,307,422.

Of this year's total, $9,086,984, or 45 percent, of the funding was for research. The remaining 55 percent included: 13.38 percent for public service, 15.12 percent for instruction, 2.94 percent for equipment and 0.31 percent for continuing education. About a fourth, or 23.65 percent, is categorized as "other."

The largest percentage of funding, 54.23 percent, came from the federal government, with the National Science Foundation providing the largest amount of funds, a total of $1,258,945.

State funds accounted for 36.07 percent of the overall total, while 6.52 percent was from private nonprofits and 1.04 percent was from industry. Local government funded 0.37 percent and non-Virginia government, 0.60 percent.

The College of Integrated Science and Technology topped all colleges and divisions recording a funding total of $8,682,443. The College of Arts and Letters received a total of $808,152; the College of Business, $710,951; the College of Education, $2,772,598; and the College of Science and Mathematics, $1,698,987.

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