Total research expenditures at U.T.-Arlington jumped to $63.6 million in 2010 from $50.3 million in 2008.
Under Ms. Natalicio's leadership, UTEP's budget has grown to roughly $400 million from about $65 million, and research expenditures are up to about $76 million from $6 million.
Education University of Houstonn advised U.S. News that it overreported the amount of research expenditures the education school had received during fiscal year 2011.
At a time when hard-pressed pharmaceutical companies are already scaling back research expenditures, RNAi is losing out to alternatives that seem closer to producing marketable drugs.
With breakthroughs in biotechnology and genome research, "expenditures on prescription drugs are going to rise very rapidly," said Robert D. Reischauer of the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research center.
Chapman said freshman enrollment was up 23percentt and research expenditures had more than doubled, and that the number of Ph.D.'s awarded this year would top 100, a fivefold increase from 1999.
Tricky Balancing Act As the president of one of the largest universities in the country, Gee oversees a $5 billion budget, $800 million in annual research expenditures, and more than 64,000 students and 42,000 employees.
The conditions could apply to parts of that package of proposed research expenditures, called Horizon 2020, worth €80 billion, or $108 billion, from 2014 to the end of the decade.
During Dr. Clough's nearly 14 years as president of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, annual research expenditures have increased to $425 million from $212 million; enrollment has increased to more than 18,000 from 13,000; and the university has consistently been ranked among the nation's top 10 public research universities.
Those profits rely almost entirely on laws that protect the industry from cheap imports, delay home-grown knockoffs, give away government medical discoveries, allow steep tax breaks for research expenditures and forbid government officials from demanding discounts while requiring them to buy certain drugs.
They predict that the new university would have about 28,000 undergraduate students (there are currently about 8,600 at Brownsville and about 19,000 at Pan Am), research expenditures exceeding $11 million and an endowment of more than $70 million.
