Research continues to turn astatine Fresno State, allowing students, module and unit to beforehand scholarly and originative enactment that tin payment the field and the greater community.
The university’s R2 probe designation, first earned successful 2022, was renewed by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. An instauration is designated R2 presumption if it awarded astatine slightest 20 probe doctorates and had astatine slightest $5 cardinal successful full probe expenditures during the classification update year.
Fresno State awarded 25 probe doctoral degrees and spent $11.4 cardinal connected probe expenditures successful the 2022-23 world year. The assemblage offers a Doctoral Program successful Educational Leadership (Ed.D.), Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).
The updated 2025 Carnegie Classifications were released Feb. 13 and see a bid of changes to modernize and much accurately picture the richness and multifaceted quality of today’s colleges and universities. The R2 designation is present labeled “High Spending and Doctorate Production” alternatively of “Doctoral University – High Research Activity.”
“The continued R2 designation shows that we are competitory and it recognizes the prime of the probe enactment that is being done astatine our university,” said Dr. Jason Bush, interim subordinate vice president of Research and Sponsored Programs astatine Fresno State. “The prestige of being an R2 instauration besides helps with recruitment of module and students and lets our assemblage of imaginable donors cognize that we are a probe university.”
Only 8 of the 23 universities successful the California State University strategy stock this designation. This year, 139 institutions nationwide received the R2 designation. The Carnegie classification has been the starring model for recognizing and describing organization diverseness successful U.S. higher acquisition for implicit 40 years.
Fresno State has made probe a precedence nether the university’s 2023-29 Strategic Plan with goals to make operational structures and supply resources to let module and unit to beforehand probe and innovation.
During the 2023-24 world year, Fresno State received much than 400 grants and contracts for a full of $78.3 million, mounting a grounds successful probe backing for the sixth consecutive year.
“Fresno State strives to champion our Carnegie designation of R2 successful supporting our talented module and students to beforehand research, innovation and originative enactment that payment the Central Valley and the world,” said Dr. Xuanning Fu, Fresno State provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.
