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Message: [QUOTE="Eavesdrop, post: 4663025, member: 11175"] Those rankings are for overall research expenditures. That definitely matters. It's relevant. It's useful. But my (potentially flawed) understanding is that the AAU specifically emphasizes competitively funded federal research dollars. They also examine candidates through a per capita/size lens. That combination is apparently a large part of why a smaller schools like Tufts and UCSC recently earned invitations. My alma mater ranks 83rd on the NSF research expenditures list with about $328 million in FY 2021. But only about $153 million of that derived from competitively funded federal research dollars. Their AAU aspirational peers were meanwhile did about an average of $399 million of competitively funded federal research dollars that same year. [/QUOTE]