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Rizik: University of Michigan Conducts $2 Billion in Annual Research

Chris Rizik · Chris Rizik on Building Renaissance Venture Capital & Boosting Michigan Startups · Sep 3, 2025 · at 23:32

Chris Rizik, CEO of Renaissance Venture Capital, highlights Michigan's regional research and startup ecosystems.

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“The University of Michigan, the largest public research university in the country, doing two billion of research a year in everything.”

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The claim, plainly

The University of Michigan conducts $2 billion in research annually and is the largest public research university in the United States.

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Assessment

The claim contains two distinct assertions: (1) that the University of Michigan conducts approximately $2 billion in annual research, and (2) that it is the largest public research university in the United States. The first leg is confirmed: U-M surpassed the $2 billion annual threshold in FY 2024 ($2.04 billion reported internally, $2.111 billion per NSF HERD survey data) and reached $2.16 billion in FY 2025. However, the second leg is only partially accurate: under official NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) rankings, U-M ranks as the #2 public university in total research expenditures behind the University of California, San Francisco ($2.128 billion in FY 2024). While U-M is often cited as the top comprehensive multi-disciplinary public research university (because UCSF is an exclusively medical/health sciences campus), strictly across all public universities it ranks second.

University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research reported FY 2024 research expenditures of $2.04 billion and FY 2025 expenditures of $2.16 billion.
NSF HERD Survey for FY 2024 ranked University of California, San Francisco as the #1 public university with $2.128 billion in expenditures, with University of Michigan at #2 public (#4 overall) with $2.111 billion.
NSF HERD Survey for FY 2023 also placed UCSF at #1 public ($2.047B) and U-M at #2 public ($1.926B).

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[1] dbusiness.com [2] thesuntimesnews.com [3] umich.edu [4] umich.edu [5] dbusiness.com [6] nsf.gov [7] ssti.org [8] umn.edu

"University of Michigan" "HERD" research expenditures rank public university "University of Michigan" research volume FY 2023 OR FY 2024 OR FY 2025 "billion" University of Michigan research expenditures 2024 2023 HERD ranking "University of Michigan" "public research university" ranking NSF HERD 2023 2024 2025

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