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. In their rankings, Penn State came in sixth place with over $38 million in social and behavioral science research and development.
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 2023 rankings reflect spending from fiscal year 2021, the most current available data. More information on how we produce our rankings is available on their website. COSSA's 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 533 U.S. institutions.