Sources of Funding for Academic Research and Development in Selected Fields, Fiscal Year 2012

In comparison to other fields, academic humanities research and development in 2012 was more likely to be funded either by educational institutions themselves or by not-for-profit entities. Academic institutions supplied 59% of the funding for humanities research, while the federal government provided 20%. In the education, engineering, and science fields, more than 55% of academic research funding came from the federal government.