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[QUOTE="crazypaco, post: 4304337, member: 2275"]
Just to correct this, typically less than 2% of the ~$900 million in annual, externally-sponsored research funding received at Pitt comes from Pennsylvania or other local governments.  Approximately 85% is federal grants and contracts, and 66% of the federal funding is from NIH (competitively peer reviewed and awarded)...so yes, the largest chunk is due to the med school and Pitt's other 5 schools of health sciences (pharmacy, dental, public health, rehab, nursing). Pitt is usually in the annual top 5 of all US institutions for medical/health science research funding and is 15th in total R&D expenditures of all types and all sources.

Pennsylvania appropriations provide less than 9% of Pitt's annual budget, which primarily goes to providing in-state tuition discounts (which the appropriation doesn't even fully cover).  Pitt's board of trustees, and officers, and all assets, are still privately controlled despite its "state-related" status.
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