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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

Total Library Expenditures per Full-Time Student, Sorted by 2005

Institution
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
Yale Univ.
$4,800
$5,461
$5,013
$5,819
$6,173
Harvard Univ.
$4,748
$5,108
$5,269
$5,315
$5,415
Princeton Univ.
$6,193
$4,743
$4,996
$5,274
$5,324
Washington Univ.
$2,417
$2,648
$2,913
$2,811
$3,428
Rice Univ.
$4,915
$3,503
$3,165
$3,015
$3,178
Johns Hopkins Univ.
$1,963
$2,932
$2,936
$2,799
$2,824
Emory Univ.
$2,393
$3,990
$2,515
$2,586
$2,654
Univ. of Chicago
$2,383
$2,480
$2,383
$2,326
$2,435
Brown Univ.
$2,192
$2,223
$2,359
$2,335
$2,430
Duke Univ.
$2,266
$2,637
$2,670
$2,520
$2,412
Univ. of Rochester
$1,838
$3,101
$2,284
$2,242
$2,313
Columbia Univ.
$2,114
$2,310
$2,347
$2,250
$2,262
Cornell Univ.
$1,937
$1,989
$2,031
$2,169
$2,134
Case Western Reserve Univ.
$1,674
$1,730
$1,867
$1,977
$2,073
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
$1,597
$1,731
$1,831
$1,996
$2,069
Vanderbilt Univ.
$1,753
$1,865
$1,785
$1,860
$1,985
Northwestern
$1,623
$1,611
$1,750
$2,024
$1,813
Univ. of California-Berkeley
$1,473
$1,811
$1,788
$1,813
$1,749
Univ. of Virginia
$1,501
$1,572
$1,450
$1,557
$1,713
Univ. of Pennsylvania
$2,015
$1,698
$1,648
$1,687
$1,669
UNC - Chapel Hill
$1,297
$1,322
$1,321
$1,351
$1,463
Tulane Univ.
$1,334
$1,375
$1,359
$1,328
$1,328
Univ. of New York
$1,316
$1,219
$1,228
$1,204
$1,281
Univ. of California-Los Angeles
$1,056
$1,178
$1,110
$1,286
$1,269
Univ. of California-San Diego
$1,249
$1,263
$1,216
$1,166
$1,181
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
$936
$930
$1,084
$1,070
$1,170
Univ. of Washington
$1,011
$989
$874
$1,061
$1,087
Univ. of Iowa
$1,032
$1,012
$982
$1,013
$1,083
North Carolina State Univ.
$1,065
$1,129
$1,205
$1,109
$1,037
Univ. of Southern California
$1,024
$1,066
$1,173
$808
$1,028
McGill Univ.
$654
$732
$863
$886
$1,011
Univ. of Pittsburgh
$754
$744
$932
$933
$1,007
Univ. of Minnesota
$990
$1,016
$927
$902
$976
Univ. of Illinois-Urbana
$895
$938
$908
$910
$944
SUNY-Stony Brook
$843
$812
$749
$723
$928
Univ. of Toronto
$970
$973
$972
$874
$928
Indiana Univ.
$897
$918
$917
$977
$918
Univ. of Arizona
$874
$882
$870
$898
$897
Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
$809
$835
$808
$903
$864
Univ. of Texas at Austin
$748
$813
$781
$782
$854
Univ. of Kansas
$766
$813
$832
$850
$845
SUNY-Buffalo
$859
$862
$865
$844
$829
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
$641
$667
$678
$715
$815
Univ. of Georgia
$805
$778
$726
$744
$791
Rutgers-State Univ. of NJ
$781
$759
$767
$757
$784
Univ. of Oregon
$892
$885
$858
$744
$782
Univ. of California-Irvine
$885
$894
$889
$805
$761
Georgia Tech
$662
$712
$664
$710
$727
Pennsylvania State Univ.
$620
$647
$663
$642
$725
Texas A&M
$567
$580
$612
$654
$723
Iowa State Univ.
$652
$649
$677
$676
$723
Univ. of Colorado
$746
$797
$776
$718
$708
Univ. of Florida
$772
$629
$642
$597
$676
Univ. of California-Davis
$870
$862
$682
$716
$647
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
$599
$675
$595
$660
$646
Purdue Univ.
$428
$464
$498
$509
$620
Univ. of Maryland-College Park
$756
$787
$596
$573
$618
Ohio State Univ.
$753
$688
$645
$651
$615
Michigan State Univ.
$517
$525
$543
$588
$570
Virginia Tech
$477
$515
$476
$471
$506
Syracuse Univ.
$885
$931
$930
$929
N/A
Univ. of Michigan
$1,273
$1,240
$1,353
$1,302
N/A

Source: Association of Research Libraries Web Database November, 2006
Brandeis University, Cal Tech, and Carnegie Mellon, are not ARL members.


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