Metric 1
| Percent of research grant awards that are Interdisciplinary vs. single discipline [1] | FY 2020 | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 N/A | FY 2025 Benchmark | FY 2029 Benchmark |
| % of research grant awards that have PIs and Co-PIs in two or more academic departments (i.e., interdisciplinary) | 24.7% | 16.9% | 24.2% | 21.4% | | 25.0% | 30.0% |
Metric 2
| Advancement funding | FY 2020 | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 N/A | FY 2025 Benchmark | FY 2029 Benchmark |
| Total gift income (outright gifts and previous pledge payments) | $15.5M | $21.1M | $25.8M | $30.2M | | $30M | $40M |
| Total endowment value | $121.2M | $161.4M | $141.2M | $149.2M | | $160M | $190M |
Metric 3
| Inventions, patents and licenses (from the Office of Technology Transfer) | FY 2020 | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 N/A | FY 2025 Benchmark | FY 2029 Benchmark |
| Inventions disclosure | 22 | 16 | 13 | 10 | | 20 | 28 |
| Patents issued | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | | 5 | 10 |
| Licenses / Options / Letters of Intent | 19 | 22 | 32 | 51 | | 50 | 60 |
[1] Excludes no-cost extensions. Includes new grants only within “research-basic” or “research-applied” types. Represents per-grant, not per-person grant dollars. A new protocol for calculating these measures was implemented in fall 2019 and all data provided reflect this method.