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Ten largest Australian higher education R&D fields by 2024 expenditure
Sources checked
2022
Shared scale · 0 AUD million to 3,661 AUD million
2024
Shared scale · 0 AUD million to 3,661 AUD million
Health sciences overtook engineering as the second-largest field in the table.
Ten largest Australian higher education R&D fields by 2024 expenditure
The Australian Bureau of Statistics groups research by field. Figures are current Australian dollars in millions, and the years are calendar years.
| Source | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomedical and clinical sciences | 3,223 | 3,661 | Source 1 |
| Health sciences | 1,540 | 2,114 | Source 1 |
| Engineering | 1,650 | 1,895 | Source 1 |
| Biological sciences | 1,088 | 1,366 | Source 1 |
| Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences | 648 | 793 | Source 1 |
| Information and computing sciences | 631 | 700 | Source 1 |
| Human society | 643 | 693 | Source 1 |
| Environmental sciences | 531 | 640 | Source 1 |
| Psychology | 415 | 495 | Source 1 |
| Physical sciences | 441 | 487 | Source 1 |