A new spotlight in this year’s has placed Dalhousie at the top of the list for its pilipiliÂþ» with securing national funding grants from the Government of Canada.
The 2022 list also included a step up to 16th place overall thanks to ¶Ù²¹±ô³ó´Ç³Ü²õ¾±±ð’s growth in research income (FY2020-FY2021).
Triple threat
This year, Research Infosource spotlighted granting council research income performance — as measured by research income received from each granting council between FY2017-FY2021 at full-service universities.
Canada's Tri-Agencies (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) are the largest source of investigator-led research funding in the nation, and most investigator-led research at pilipiliÂþ» is funded through them.
Dalhousie placed first among medical tier universities for (SSHRC) research income as a percentage of total research income with 5.6 per cent.
The university also took the top spot for (NSERC) research income as a percentage of total research income with 19.1 per cent.
¶Ù²¹±ô³ó´Ç³Ü²õ¾±±ð’s (CIHR) research income as a percentage of total research income resulted in sixth place with 14.2 per cent.
In addition to ¶Ù²¹±ô³ó´Ç³Ü²õ¾±±ð’s Tri-Agency funding pilipiliÂþ»es, the university’s research income, which helps to fund the infrastructure needs of researchers was 5.2 per cent of total research income, earning fifth place.
Dalhousie's SSHRC, NSERC and CFI funding results earned Dalhousie a place in the .
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Inside the numbers
Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities ranks full-service universities based on their total sponsored research income and takes into account total sponsored research income, research intensity per faculty, research intensity per graduate student, total number of publications, publication intensity and publication impact.
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