Stanford's budget is 60x IITB, highlighting the massive R&D gap between US and Indian colleges
SumitGup · x · 2026-08-25
Data reveals a massive funding gap between top-tier US colleges (Stanford, Harvard) and Indian IITs. Stanford's budget reaches $10B, which is 60 times that of IIT Bombay ($1.6B). The combined budgets of the top 4 IITs are merely a rounding error compared to Stanford, implying that their R&D outputs cannot be expected to be on the same level.
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