The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly $242 million in funding to neurosurgery departments at universities and schools of medicine in the U.S. in 2025, according to data from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
The mean funding for neurosurgery departments in 2025 was $4.5 million, and the median was $2.6 million.
Here is what 54 U.S. schools received from the NIH last year for orthopedics:
1. University of California San Francisco: $28,554,254
2. University of Florida (Miami): $19,646,203
3. Washington University St. Louis: $14,921,890
4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $14,261,683
5. Stanford (Calif.) University: $12,658,424
6. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): $11,886,611
7. University of Texas Health Science Center Houston: $9,840,463
8. Baylor College of Medicine (Dallas): $8,881,407
9. Northwestern University Chicago: $7,534,044
10. Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine (New York City): $7,309,463
11. University of Pittsburgh: $6,995,742
12. University of California Los Angeles: $6,987,313
13. University of Miami School of Medicine: $6,656,242
14. University of California Davis: $6,538,956
15. University of Michigan Ann Arbor: $6,012,807
16. Ohio State University (Columbus): $4,782,533
17. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: $4,519,363
18. University of Southern California (Los Angeles): $4,330,611
19. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): $3,983,990
20. University of Texas Southwestern Dallas: $3,440,211
21. Columbia University Health Sciences (New York City): $3,273,695
22. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): $3,063,329
23. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Norman): $2,988,366
24. University of Louisville (Ky.): $2,942,509
25. University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston: $2,854,548
26. University of Wisconsin Madison: $2,816,648
27. Pennsylvania State University Medical Center Hershey: $2,691,806
28. University of Maryland Baltimore: $2,468,945
29. University of Utah (Salt Lake City): $2,452,059
30. Emory University (Atlanta): $2,413,283
31. University of Washington Seattle: $2,201,046
32. New York University School of Medicine: $2,006,799
33. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago): $1,847,437
34. University of Alabama Birmingham: $1,847,341
35. University of Texas San Antonio: $1,827,005
36. University of South Florida (Tampa): $1,638,505
37. Augusta (Ga.) University: $1,476,232
38. University of Virginia (Charlottesville): $1,305,555
39. Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee): $1,087,417
40. University of Minnesota: $985,028
41. University of Colorado Denver: $900,380
42. University of Chicago: $821,620
43. University of Iowa (Iowa City): $791,557
44. Tulane University (New Orleans): $774,926
45. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: $707,846
46. Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond): $592,845
47. University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester: $588,977
48. Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia_: $564,509
49. University of Cincinnati: $534,197
50. Wayne State University (Detroit): $525,636
51. SUNY Upstate Medical Center (Syracuse, N.Y.): $410,555
52. University of California San Diego: $315,940
53. University of Kentucky (Lexington): $191,250
54. Indiana University (Bloomington): $190,485
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