In 2022/23, UBC received a total of $747,294,149.34 in research funding from all sources, supporting a total of 9,675 projects.
Support for UBC research is broadly summarized in the following tables.
|
Faculty |
Total Value |
Project Count |
|
Applied Science |
$68,438,781 | 1,048 |
|
Arts |
$31,687,647 | 883 |
|
Dentistry |
$3,001,056 | 37 |
|
Education |
$7,498,945 | 233 |
|
Forestry |
$13,742,676 | 285 |
|
Land and Food Systems |
$8,719,095 | 188 |
|
Medicine |
$409,493,669 | 4,162 |
|
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
$3,665,049 | 74 |
|
Pharmaceutical Sciences |
$10,613,770 | 168 |
|
Sauder School of Business |
$3,975,170 | 128 |
|
Science |
$111,290,772 | 1,363 |
|
Other* |
$31,368,121 | 40 |
|
UBC Vancouver Subtotal |
$703,494,749 | 8,609 |
|
UBCO School of Engineering |
$16,901,539 | 344 |
|
UBCO Creative and Critical Studies |
$985,852 | 79 |
|
UBCO Education |
$388,252 | 20 |
|
UBCO Health & Social Development |
$6,890,491 | 158 |
|
UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
$3,561,695 | 139 |
|
UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
$12,003,090 | 268 |
|
UBCO Management |
$1,508,858 | 48 |
|
Other** |
$1,559,623 | 10 |
|
UBC Okanagan Subtotal |
$43,799,401 | 1,066 |
|
UBC Total |
$747,294,149 | 9,675 |
*Other includes UBCV: President's Office, VP Academic and Provost, VP Academic (Admin Units) Office of UBC Health, VP Research and Innovation
**Other inlcudes UBCO VP Academic (Academic Units) and Graduate Studies
In 2022/23, $1.0m of Faculty of Medicine research funding went to researchers in the Southern Medical Program at UBC Okanagan. If this funding is re-allocated to the Okanagan total, this results in a 2022/23 total of $44.8m for the Okanagan campus.
|
Tri-Agency |
Total value |
Grant Count |
% of subtotal value |
|
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
$125,458,385 | 1,192 | 53.29% |
|
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) |
$78,769,607 | 1,321 | 33.46% |
|
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) |
$23,024,008 | 559 |
9.78% |
|
New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) |
$8,195,580 | 46 | 3.48% |
|
Subtotal |
$235,447,580 | 3,118 | 100% |
Infrastructure funding supports buildings, facilities and large equipment used for research. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) typically funds 40% of an approved infrastructure project, which is often matched by the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF). The University is responsible for funding the remaining 20%. Funding from each source for individual projects does not flow evenly in each year.
|
Agency |
Total value |
Grant Count |
% of subtotal value |
|
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) |
$28,170,720 | 213 | 48.71% |
|
BC Knowledge Development Fund |
$15,130,267 | 52 | 26.16% |
| CFI Matching | $14,538,098 * | 237* | 25.14% |
| Subtotal | $57,839,085 | 502 | 100% |
* due to internal deadlines, the reporting of a significant number of CFI matching awards was deferred to FY23
|
Sector |
Total value |
Project Count |
% of total value |
| Government (Tri-Agencies) | $235,447,580 | 3,118 | 31.51% |
| Government (Other agencies) | $215,202,690 | 1,727 | 28.80% |
| Non-profit | $227,731,749 | 3,679 | 30.47% |
| Industry | $68,912,130 | 1,151 | 9.22% |
| Total | $747,294,149 | 9,675 | 100% |
|
Award Type |
Total value |
Project Count |
% of total value |
| Grant | $524,399,965 | 5,785 | 70.17% |
| Contract | $123,664,536 | 1,380 | 16.55% |
| Clinical Trial | $55,631,642 | 984 | 7.44% |
| Internal Funding | $43,598,005 | 1,526 | 5.83% |
| Total | $747,294,149 | 9,675 | 100% |
| Institute | Total value | Project Count | % of total value |
| UBC | $391,647,718 | 6,053 | 52.41% |
| Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | $112,110,176 | 1,190 | 15.00% |
| BC Cancer | $101,490,608 | 684 | 13.58% |
| BC Children's Hospital (includes Research Institute) |
$69,694,801 | 992 | 9.33% |
| Providence Health Care Research Institute | $57,603,864 | 555 | 7.71% |
| BC Centre for Disease Control | $6,405,414 | 82 | 0.86% |
| BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Institute | $1,097,540 | 25 | 0.15% |
| Interior Health | $10,000 | 1 | 0.00% |
| BC Women’s Hospital (includes Research Institute) |
$7,234,027 | 93 | 0.97% |
| Total | $747,294,149 | 9,675 | 100% |
| Category | Total value | Project Count | % of subtotal value |
| Foreign Companies | $9,921,345 | 124 | 11.26% |
| Foreign Foundations & Nonprofit | $4,521,096 | 64 | 5.13% |
| Foreign Government | $1,549,144 | 34 | 1.76% |
| Foreign Granting Agencies | $1,049,357 | 24 | 1.19% |
| US Companies | $21,377,061 | 359 | 24.25% |
| US Foundations & Nonprofit | $22,073,602 | 226 | 25.04% |
| US Government | $9,153,599 | 72 | 10.38% |
| US Granting Agencies | $18,476,276 | 127 | 20.96% |
| US Industrial Associations | $23,294 | 4 | 0.03% |
| Subtotal | $88,144,775 | 1,034 | 100% |