Did You Know?
- Fiscal 2015 IRIS data demonstrate that federal sponsored projects at 23 research universities employed more than 100,000 people, 43% of whom were students.
- IRIS institutions spent more than $2.2 million to purchase goods and services from vendors located in 1,778 U.S. counties and all 45 Congressional Districts.
- Links to Census Burea economic data document the career destinations of more than 100,000 people who worked on federal grants and then took jobs with other employers. 43% of those people remained in the state where they were trained.
- Three years after departing their universities, 62 percent of graduate students worked in the private sector where they made an average of $91,820.