URI Economic Impact Report - Autumn 2020

Jobs created with research dollars are not to limited science positions. They include administrators and managers as well as jobs with suppliers, equipment vendors, contractors, and the laborers who construct and renovate laboratory space – not to mention the jobs created in the community by the scientific community’s household and disposable incomes. One in three jobs created or supported by URI is related to the University’s research activities. In FY19, the operational and capital expenditures for sponsored research at URI supported 1,182 jobs (National Center for Education Statistics, 2020).

FACULTY PRODUCTIVITY AND INFLUENCE

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URI faculty are leaders in their disciplines. Many are world- renowned and publish their work in highly influential academic journals. The Graduate School of Oceanography is home to experts whose hurricane models are used by the U.S. National Hurricane Center and the Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Biomedical researchers in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences are studying viral diseases such as dengue fever, a debilitating mosquito-borne illness that infects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Scientists in the College of Engineering are developing a “digital dog nose” to detect explosives favored by terrorists who target airports. These examples provide just a glimpse of the breadth of the faculty’s work. Between 2012 and 2019, URI faculty members published 6,958 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and generated 64,651 citations (Scopus, 2020.)

URI 2

UCONN 2

UNH 2

UMASS 2

UVM 2

UMAINE 2

All Staff 1

3,160

9,920

3,775

6,313

4,186

2,689

Instructional & Research Staff 1

1,182

3,225

1,113

2,048

1,526

822

Instructional Full Time to Part Time Ratio 1 2

2

2

4

3

2

Students (Under Grad & Grad) 1

17,777

27,412

15,298

30,593

13,581

11,404

Net Tuition & Fees Revenue

$292 M $396.8 M $325 M $895 M $390 M $264 M

State Appropriation

$81 M $357 M $81 M $780 M

$43 M $212 M

Grants & Contracts 3

$101 M $144 M $155 M $451 M 4

$184 M 4

$139 M

Adj. Grants & Contracts (w/out Medical School) Grants & Contract $/State Appropriation Adj. Grants & Contract/

$101 M $144 M $155 M $195 M $104 M $139 M

1

0

2

1

4

1

85,448

44,775

139,263

38,689

68,152

169,100

(Instructional + Research Staff)

1 Staff and student data reported in IPEDS reflects 2017-2018 2 Data for primary campuses only: UCONN = Storrs; UNH = Durham; UMASS = Amherst; UVM = Burlington; and UMAINE = Orono 3 ‘Grants & Contracts’ identified in published annual reports for 2018-2019 and reported for primary campuses only 4 ‘Grants & Contracts’ amounts for UMASS and UVM include medical school research awards

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