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The latest stats for you: Top 10 cities in university research spending in the US.
City -- R&D expenditures by the city's universities and colleges in 2004 (dollars in thousands)11. Baltimore, MD--1,750,9042
2. Los Angeles, CA--1,527,602
3. Boston, MA--1,521,001
4. New York, NY--1,512,632
5. Philadelphia, PA--1,475,536
6. San Francisco, CA--1,388,2183
7. Chicago, IL--1,105,317
8. Houston, TX--1,099,652
9. Durham/Chapel Hill, NC--937,598
10. Atlanta, GA--784,3301Includes universities and colleges within a 20-mile radius of each city center
2Includes Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, which spent $670 million on R&D
3Not including Stanford University. If Stanford was included, the figure would be 2,059,264, which would place San Francisco at the top of the list
Source: National Science Foundation
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