50 anesthesiology departments ranked by NIH funding

The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly $250 million in funding to anesthesiology departments at universities and medical schools in the U.S. in 2025, according to data from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

The mean funding for anesthesiology departments in 2025 was $4.98 million, and the median was $2.6 million. 

Two universities received more than $20 million: Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

Here is what 50 U.S. schools received from the NIH last year for anesthesiology:

1. Washington University in St Louis: $30,583,287
2. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor): $20,814,360
3. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): $18,060,254
4. University of Pittsburgh: $17,234,079
5. Stanford (Calif.) University: $16,968,595
6. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.): $11,571,266
7. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): $8,519,058
8. University of California, San Francisco:  $7,139,352
9. Columbia University Health Sciences (New York City): $7,108,024
10. University of Alabama at Birmingham: $6,775,477
11. University of Colorado Denver: $6,695,630
12. University of Washington Seattle: $6,207,600
13. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: $6,135,480
14. University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City): $5,993,085
15. University of California Los Angeles: $5,594,309
16. University of Maryland, Baltimore: $5,111,916
17. Cornell University Weill Medical College (New York City): $4,789,389
18. Stony Brook (N.Y.) University: $4,681,125
19. University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha): $4,147,124
20. University of Virginia (Charlottesville): $4,114,864
21. New York University School of Medicine (New York City): $3,673,255
22. Wake Forest University Health and Exercise Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.): $3,626,137
23. University of California San Diego: $3,617,951
24. Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.): $3,111,431
25. Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee): $2,746,361
26. University of Illinois Chicago: $2,649,683
27. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $2,634,986
28. University of Wisconsin-Madison: $2,262,164
29. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: $2,238,924
30. University of Cincinnati: $2,146,928
31. Oregon Health & Science University (Portland): $2,130,475
32. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): $1,821,911
33. Northwestern University Chicago: $1,817,067
34. University of Rochester (N.Y.): $1,794,951
35. University of Texas Southwestern (Dallas): $1,692,507
36. George Washington University (Washington, D.C.): $1,636,001
37. University of California, Irvine: $1,532,799
38. Pennsylvania State University Medical Center Hershey: $1,501,703
39. Indiana University (Bloomington):  $1,216,429
40. Ohio State University (Columbus): $1,206,340
41. University of Chicago: $1,093,521
42. University of Minnesota (Minneapolis): $1,080,363
43. University of Utah (Salt Lake City): $926,157
44. Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston): $755,000
45. University of Florida (Gainesville): $632,737
46. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $458,548
47. University of Iowa (Iowa City): $427,625
48. Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, N.Y.): $195,696
49. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (Albuquerque): $170,100
50. Baylor College of Medicine (Houston): $149,667