Tuesday, Aug 20, 2024 • Katherine Egan Bennett : contact

In 2023, research grants given to The University of Texas at Arlington accounted for $77 million in research-related goods and services spent in the economy, with about $40.7 million of those dollars spent in Texas. That is an increase of 43% over 2022 when research grants funding to UTA translated to $53.6 million being spent on research-related supplies.

The $77 million includes federally sponsored research awards as well as grants from local and state governments, private institutions, corporate entities, and other sources. Overall, UT Arlington and its 270,000 alumni contribute $29 billion in annual economic impact on Texas.

“It’s an honor that so many prominent agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation support the work of UTA’s talented faculty and student researchers,” said Kate Miller, vice president of research and innovation for UT Arlington. “I’m so proud that these organizations recognize the value of UTA’s research efforts and have chosen to increase their support as we work to solve some of society’s biggest problems.”

According to the report produced by the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), the top federal agencies supporting UTA research in 2023 were the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, and Department of Energy.

The 2023 report complements earlier reporting from IRIS that showed research projects from UTA contributed $226.4 million to the national economy from 2018 to 2022.

IRIS is a national consortium of research universities organized around an institutional review-board-approved data repository housed at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

The IRIS reports aim to clarify and explain the economic impact of university research through many different lenses, with the goal of providing data-driven reports that help universities understand, explain, and improve the public value of higher education and research.

This report is based on administrative data UTA supplied to IRIS, which was then merged with other public and private datasets. Reports are available to IRIS members. No individual businesses, employees or students are identifiable in the reports.