Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by cowsandmilk on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:41PM
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> I've not seen 60+% in any grant I've ever worked with. In smaller institutions they tend to be around 10-20%. On the larger campuses, the average indirect rate was 32%.
I run a company that has won many Federal grants and subcontracted a lot of work to universities in the Boston and Cambridge area.
Let's look at the current indirect rates for universities I've worked with:
1) Harvard: up to 69.5% for Federally funded research [1]
2) MIT: currently 56%, but in 2010, it was 68% [2]
3) Boston University: 63.7% [3]
4) Northeastern University: 54.5% [4]
60% as an average is much closer to what I see than 32%. The Boston Globe says the national average is 52% [5].
P.S. On a tip from a friend, I'll add that MGH's indirect rate is 74% [6]
I run a company that has won many Federal grants and subcontracted a lot of work to universities in the Boston and Cambridge area.
Let's look at the current indirect rates for universities I've worked with:
1) Harvard: up to 69.5% for Federally funded research [1]
2) MIT: currently 56%, but in 2010, it was 68% [2]
3) Boston University: 63.7% [3]
4) Northeastern University: 54.5% [4]
60% as an average is much closer to what I see than 32%. The Boston Globe says the national average is 52% [5].
P.S. On a tip from a friend, I'll add that MGH's indirect rate is 74% [6]
[1] http://osp.fad.harvard.edu/content/fa-cost-rates-federal-spo...
[2] http://osp.mit.edu/rates/facilities-and-administrative-fa-ra...
[3] http://www.bu.edu/osp/files/2012/03/RateAgreement22Feb2013.p...
[4] http://www.northeastern.edu/research/raf/files/Indirect-Cost...
[5] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/03/17/harvard-mit-thw...
[6] http://resadmin.partners.org/RM_Home/Documents/2011%2005%200...