The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) recently released its annual College and University Rankings for Federal Social and Behavioral Science R&D, which highlight the top university recipients of research dollars in the social and behavioral sciences.
Penn State was ranked in 6th place with over $39 million R&D dollars, up from 8th place in 2021.
Based on federally collected data, the COSSA rankings use an inclusive selection of fields representing the breadth of the social and behavioral sciences to calculate the total federal R&D funding received by universities in the social and behavioral sciences. The 2022 rankings reflect spending from fiscal year 2020, the most current available data.
More information on how COSSA produces their rankings is available on the COSSA website. The website also features a rankings dashboard with an interactive map of recipients of social and behavioral science R&D funding so you can see how Penn State stacks up among 542 U.S. institutions.