Request for Proposals: Targeted Top Research Universities

Applications will be accepted from outstanding research universities worldwide. For definition purposes, a research university offers substantial doctoral programs in the sciences and other fields, pursues significant funded research in the hundreds of millions of dollars (or its equivalent), and has a faculty who possess credentials and achievements that are well-known and well-regarded both within and outside of the nation where it is located. In the case of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, we have used established performance and ranking guides (see below). At this time we do not know of comparable rankings of research universities in other countries. If applying from outside of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, please submit documentation regarding the university's doctoral programs in the sciences and other fields, its research funding, and its faculty credentials and achievements.

Note Bene: While we are not capable of processing applications that are not written in English, the language of discourse and publication of a project need not be English.

United States

U.S. list of top research universities is taken from the Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance's The Top American Research Universities, 2002.

Arizona State University at Tempe (AZ)
Baylor College of Medicine (TX)
Boston College (MA)
Boston University (MA)
Brandeis University (MA)
Brown University (RI)
California Institute of Technology (CA)
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Case Western Reserve University (OH)
College of William and Mary (VA)
Columbia University (NY)
Cornell University (NY)
Dartmouth College (NH)
Duke University (NC)
Emory University (GA)
Georgetown University (DC)
Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Harvard University (MA)
Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IN)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Lehigh University (PA)
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Michigan State University (MI)
New York University (NY)
North Carolina State University (NC)
Northwestern University (IL)
Ohio State University at Columbus (OH)
Oregon Health and Science University (OR)
Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Princeton University (NJ)
Purdue University at West Lafayette (IN)
Rice University (TX)
Rockefeller University (NY)
Rutgers State University, New Brunswick (NJ)
Stanford University (CA)
Texas A&M University (TX)
Texas Tech University (TX)
Thomas Jefferson University
Tufts University (MA)
Tulane University (LA)
University at Buffalo (NY)
University at Stony Brook (NY)
University of Alabama, Birmingham (AL)
University of Arizona (AZ)
University of California at Berkeley (CA)
University of California at Davis (CA)
University of California, Irvine (CA)
University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
University of California, San Diego (CA)
University of California, San Francisco (CA)
University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
University of Chicago (IL)
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (OH)
University of Colorado at Boulder (CO)
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (CO)
University of Delware (DE)
University of Florida (FL)
University of Georgia (GA)
University of Illinois at Chicago (IL)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
University of Iowa (IO)
University of Kentucky(KY)
University of Maryland at Baltimore (MD)
University of Maryland at College Park (MD)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)
University of Miami (FL)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (MI)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (MN)
University of Missouri at Columbus (MO)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
University of Notre Dame (IN)
University of Pennsylvania (PA)
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh (PA)
University of Rochester (NY)
University of Southern California (CA)
University of Texas at Austin (TX)
University of Texas SW Medical Center at Dallas (TX)
University of Utah (UT)
University of Virginia (VA)
University of Washington (WA)
University of Wisconsin at Madison (WI)
Vanderbilt University (TN)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)
Wake Forest University (NC)
Washington University (MO)
Yale University (CT)
Yeshiva University (NY)

Canada

The Canadian list of top research universities is taken from the Maclean's Ranking of Canadian Universities.

University of Toronto
Queen's University, Kingston
McGill University, Montreal
University of British Columbia Vancouver
Western
University of Alberta
Dalhousie
University of Montreal
Laval University, Quebec
University of Ottawa

United Kingdom

The UK list of top research universities is taken from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise by the British government for those institutions with a score of 5 or higher in the area of theology and religious studies, as well as a score of 5 or higher in a scientific category (biology or physics).

University of Bristol
University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
University of Durham
University of Exeter
King's College, London
Lancaster University
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Sheffield
University of Aberdeen
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of St. Andrews
Cardiff University

Other research universities in other countries

Applications will be accepted from outstanding research universities worldwide. For definition purposes, a research university offers substantial doctoral programs in the sciences and other fields, pursues significant funded research in the hundreds of millions of dollars (or its equivalent), and has a faculty who possess credentials and achievements that are well-known and well-regarded both within and outside of the nation where it is located. At this time we do not know of comparable rankings of research universities outside of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. If applying from outside of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, please submit documentation regarding the university's doctoral programs in the sciences and other fields, its research funding, and its faculty credentials and achievements.

Note Bene: While we are not capable of processing applications that are not written in English, the language of discourse and publication of a project need not be English.