SDSU raises near-record $130M for research

San Diego State University pulled in $130 million for research during fiscal 2015, the second highest figure in campus history and the largest figure of any California State University campus.

As part of the CSU system, San Diego State is primarily devoted to teaching. But the campus decided in the 1980s to develop a large research program that has challenged some University of California campuses for money, as well as those in the CSU.

The $24.9 million SDSU obtained from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2015 was higher than UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara got from the same agency

SDSU received money across a wide variety of academic disciplines. The contracts include the start of a $10 million endowment fund that will be used to study disparities in the public’s access to health care. The campus also got $2 million to search for early development signs of autism, and $2 million to help in the development of new antibiotics.

SDSU research funding:

FY 2015-16: $129.9 million

FY 2014-15: $120.6 million

FY 2013-14: $107.9 million

FY 2012-13: $115.7 million

FY 2010-11: $145.1 million (figure was artificially inflated due to federal stimulus during the recession).

Source: SDSU