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Association of American Universities

Formation	1900
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Location	United States Canada
Membership	62
President	Robert M. Berdahl
Website	aau.edu

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.

1 Organization
- 1.1 Presidents
- 1.2 Statistics
2 Membership
3 Notes and references
4 External links

Organization

AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies, in order to promote strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. The AAU holds two annual meetings. The fall meeting is conducted on a member campus while the spring meeting is held in the headquarters city of Washington, D.C.

Presidents

Executive	Term
Thomas A. Bartlett	1977 – 1982
Robert M. Rosenzweig	1983 – 1993
Cornelius J. Pings	1993 – 1998
Nils Hasselmo	July 1, 1998 – April, 2006
Robert M. Berdahl	May, 2006 – present

Statistics

As of 2004, AAU members accounted for 58%¹ of US universities' research grants and contract income and 52% of all doctorates awarded in the United States. Since 1999, 43% of all Nobel Prize winners and 74% of winners at U.S. institutions have been affiliated with an AAU university. Approximately two-thirds of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006 Class of Fellows are affiliated with an AAU university. The faculties at AAU universities include 2,993 members of the National Academies (82% of all members): the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine (2004).²

Undergraduate students: 1,044,759; 7% nationally
Undergraduate degrees awarded: 235,328; 17% nationally
Graduate students: 418,066; 20% nationally
Master’s awarded: 106,971; 19% nationally
Professional Degrees: 20,859; 25% nationally
Doctorates awarded: 22,747; 52% nationally
Postdoctoral Fellows: 30,430; 67% nationally
Students Studying Abroad: 57,205
National Merit/Achievement Scholars (2004): 5,434; 63% nationally
Faculty: approximately 72,000

Membership

Admission

AAU membership is by invitation only, which requires an affirmative vote of three-fourths of current members. Invitations are considered periodically, based in part on an assessment of the breadth and quality of university programs of research and graduate education, as well as undergraduate education. Year of admission is shown in parentheses with founding members bolded.

A founding member that departed due to "institutional emphases and energies" [1] that differed from the other AAU members.

Clark University (1900-1999)

Another founding member that departed due to its change of focus from research to undergraduate education.

Notes and references

^ Over $15.9 billion: NIH: $9.1 billion, 60% of total academic research funding. Research Funding: National Science Foundation: $2.0 billion, 63% of total academic research funding Department of Defense: $1.2 billion, 56% of total academic research funding Department of Energy: $505.2 million, 63% of total academic research funding NASA: $673.2 million, 57% of total academic research funding Department of Agriculture: $271.9 million, 41% of total academic research funding
^ AAU Facts and Figures. Accessed August 24, 2008.

External links

Association of American Universities

v • d • e Association of American Universities (AAU)

Public	University of Arizona • University of California, Berkeley • University of California, Davis • University of California, Irvine • University of California, Los Angeles • University of California, San Diego • University of California, Santa Barbara • University of Colorado at Boulder • University of Florida • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Indiana University (Bloomington) • University of Iowa • Iowa State University • University of Kansas • University of Maryland, College Park • University of Michigan • Michigan State University • University of Minnesota • University of Missouri • University of Nebraska–Lincoln • University at Buffalo (SUNY) • Stony Brook University (SUNY) • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Ohio State University • University of Oregon • Pennsylvania State University • University of Pittsburgh • Purdue University • Rutgers University • University of Texas at Austin • Texas A&M University • University of Virginia • University of Washington • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Private	Brandeis University • Brown University • California Institute of Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Case Western Reserve University • University of Chicago • Columbia University • Cornell University • Duke University • Emory University • Harvard University • Johns Hopkins University • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Northwestern University • New York University • University of Pennsylvania • Princeton University • Rice University • University of Rochester • University of Southern California • Stanford University • Syracuse University • Tulane University • Vanderbilt University • Washington University in St. Louis • Yale University

Canadian	McGill University • University of Toronto

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Contents

Organization

Presidents

Statistics

Membership

Admission

Public universities

Private universities

Canadian universities

Former members

Notes and references

External links