All 177 general R1 research universities (2025 Carnegie): the 100 largest by FY2024 R&D spending plus 77 other R1s, scored 0–3 on governance, tool access, curriculum, research and infrastructure. Filter to any peer set; click a school for the evidence and sources behind each score.
Schools are compared against this group's averages: the “vs benchmark” column, the tick marks on the category bars and each school's detail row. Dots mark schools that are in the benchmark group.
Bars show the filtered set (out of 3). The dark tick marks the benchmark average: Top 100 R1 schools.
Universe: top 100 R1 universities by FY2024 NSF HERD R&D, excluding stand-alone medical and research institutes. Wichita State and Wake Forest rank in the top 100 by spending but are R2 in the 2025 Carnegie designations, so South Carolina and Tulane take their places. Catalog course counts come from each catalog's own search and their scope varies (full catalog vs one or two terms); blank means the catalog could not be searched. Scores reflect what was live on Oct 29, 2026. Conference is each school's primary athletic conference for 2026-27 (football conference where it has one); Power Four = Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12. The other 77 R1s (outside the top 100 by R&D; stand-alone medical campuses excluded) were added Oct 31 and Nov 5, 2026. The default benchmark is still the top 100, and research-score cutoffs stay fixed at the top-100 quartiles. These schools were researched with a tighter search budget, so more are low confidence, and their catalog course counts have not been run yet (blank). CU Denver/Anschutz is scored as the combined Carnegie institution. Ohio schools without their own large cluster score 2 on infrastructure for access to the statewide Ohio Supercomputer Center.