I wanted to share the following article with you from the Albany Times-Union:

SUNY Poly jumps Penn State to grab No. 4 engineering ranking

SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany has risen to No. 4 in the National Science Foundation’s latest ranking of engineering research and development spending nationwide as its R&D funding surged.

The top-ranked R&D engineering school in terms of R&D spending is  Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with $878 million in engineering R&D spending.

Georgia Tech and MIT have the No. 2 and No. 3 spots.

SUNY Poly’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany had $369 million in engineering R&D spending during the 12 months that ended June 30, 2013, the most recent period for which data was collected.

That was up 40 percent from fiscal 2012, when SUNY Poly had $262 million in engineering R&D spending and was ranked No. 5 behind Penn State.

With the increase in fiscal 2013, SUNY Poly leapfrogged Penn State to get grab the No. 4 spot.

Penn State was ranked No. 5 with $320 million in engineering R&D spending, up from $298 million in fiscal 2012.

R&D spending is money spent from grants and other research projects funded by government or the private sector.

Schools in the rest of the Top 10 were Texas A&M, the University of Michigan, Purdue University, Virginia Tech and the University of Texas.

SUNY Poly is also ranked No. 1 in the country for corporate R&D spending.