Department Strength

Compare universities within a research field using public funding, faculty influence, citations, and rising-star concentration. Funding is a background signal, not a guarantee that a department or lab is recruiting.

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Molecular Biology departments sorted by funding
#	Institution	Profs	Avg h	Citations	Funding	Rising
1	Yale University	27	44.3	652,049	$42M–$43M	0%
2	Washington University in St. Louis	21	35.2	355,024	$39M–$40M	0%
3	Broad Institute	89	46.4	2,909,966	$35M–$36M	1%
—	Hebei University of EngineeringInsufficient sample	1	131.0	112,644	$30M–$31M	0%
—	Harbin University of Science and TechnologyInsufficient sample	2	51.0	32,359	$28M–$29M	0%
4	Allen Institute for Brain Science	5	47.0	76,564	$23M–$24M	0%
—	Zhejiang International Studies UniversityInsufficient sample	2	169.5	411,272	$22M–$23M	0%
5	Northwestern University	10	51.3	204,763	$22M–$23M	0%
—	Twitter (United States)Insufficient sample	2	86.5	57,115	$22M–$23M	0%
6	University of California, Santa Cruz	29	41.0	909,614	$21M–$22M	0%
7	Harvard University	64	37.5	1,260,214	$21M–$22M	0%
8	University of Vermont	10	70.9	280,130	$20M–$21M	0%
9	University of Maryland, Baltimore	15	37.8	316,001	$19M–$20M	0%
10	University of California, Los Angeles	17	38.4	388,560	$18M–$19M	0%
11	UC San Diego Health System	4	99.0	616,152	$17M–$18M	0%
12	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	18	58.6	528,829	$17M–$18M	0%
—	Mount Sinai HospitalInsufficient sample	1	19.0	11,501	$17M–$18M	0%
13	Johns Hopkins University	48	40.8	1,503,953	$17M–$18M	2%
14	Tongji University	5	36.4	56,966	$16M–$17M	0%
15	University of California, San Francisco	28	43.0	794,124	$16M–$17M	0%
16	University of California San Diego	34	33.7	608,154	$16M–$17M	0%
17	University of Southern California	22	33.0	499,130	$15M–$16M	0%
18	Qingdao University	5	51.8	70,299	$14M–$15M	0%
19	Pennsylvania State University	20	47.5	504,098	$14M–$15M	0%
20	QB3	7	48.6	128,906	$13M–$14M	14%
—	Hunan UniversityInsufficient sample	2	29.0	19,388	$13M–$14M	0%
21	California Institute of Technology	18	31.4	437,540	$12M–$13M	0%
22	Fred Hutch Cancer Center	6	44.7	98,989	$12M–$13M	0%
23	University of Chicago	7	59.6	147,585	$12M–$13M	0%
—	The CarpentriesInsufficient sample	1	23.0	4,106	$12M–$13M	0%
—	University of Central FloridaInsufficient sample	1	42.0	8,774	$11M–$12M	0%
—	Baylor University Medical CenterInsufficient sample	1	61.0	17,106	$11M–$12M	0%
24	University of Wisconsin–Madison	21	34.0	280,707	$11M–$12M	5%
25	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	47	43.7	1,115,048	$11M–$12M	0%
26	Sun Yat-sen University	3	42.7	40,295	$11M–$12M	0%
27	University of Virginia	11	33.5	139,417	$11M–$12M	0%
28	University of Washington	39	35.4	759,243	$10M–$11M	3%
29	Stanford University	44	27.7	628,781	$10M–$11M	5%
30	Shenyang Pharmaceutical University	3	40.0	22,547	$10M–$11M	0%
31	New York University	9	51.9	212,525	$10M–$11M	0%
—	Open Data InstituteInsufficient sample	1	108.0	122,703	$10M–$11M	0%
—	University of MontanaInsufficient sample	1	36.0	13,178	$10M–$11M	0%
32	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	21	31.1	209,380	$9M–$10M	0%
33	Vanderbilt University	8	39.5	113,488	$9M–$10M	0%
34	National Institutes of Health	96	37.2	2,131,979	$9M–$10M	0%
35	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	9	38.3	300,549	$9M–$10M	0%
36	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	35	47.0	949,691	$8M–$9M	0%
37	Baylor College of Medicine	20	31.4	348,686	$8M–$9M	0%
38	South China Agricultural University	3	42.3	32,202	$8M–$9M	0%
39	Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine	3	40.7	28,452	$8M–$9M	0%

Public funding totals are shown as ranges unless your account has access to exact matched NSF/NIH amounts. These records exclude startup and other non-NSF/NIH funding.