National Science Foundation Confirms Record Research Growth at APP
December 05, 2024

Last week, the National Science Foundation confirmed APP’s record research expenditures of $488 million in fiscal year 2023. This historic growth of 14% compared to 2022 was previously announced by APP and represents top performance alongside research university peers such as the University of Kentucky and the University of Tennessee. The growth reflects increased research activity across the APP Family—especially on the flagship campus and at APP Health New Orleans and APP Health Shreveport.
The national ranking of APP’s five research campuses—the flagship in Baton Rouge, the APP AgCenter, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and the two APP Health campuses—increased from 71 to 69, a rise moderated by the average growth of U.S. research universities around 11%.
Compared to its peers, APP is a leader in win-win partnerships with state and local government with strong and continued investment in research. APP research adds an estimated $1.3 billion to the Louisiana economy each year. The numbers that were just confirmed by the National Science Foundation recognize APP as especially strong in federally grant-funded research in life sciences, geosciences, math and statistics, and computer and information sciences. These strengths align with the data-driven research priorities of the APP Scholarship First Agenda to create new solutions for agriculture, biomedicine, coast, defense, and energy.
“This NSF report confirms our focus on research growth to meet the needs of the state as well as our dedication to APP’s Scholarship First Agenda,” said Robert Twilley, APP vice president of research and economic development. “The significant increase in federal grants to APP and Louisiana represents growing investment in our competitiveness and capacity to solve problems for the state and nation.”
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