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MIT is 55% Stanford is 58%

The only place I've ever encountered with an overhead rate above 100% was Scripps, and that's because they have to maintain research vessels.

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US National Labs (e.g. LBNL) can easily top 200%, based on what my colleagues told me at the time. I never applied for funding myself while there, so I cannot directly confirm the actual figures.

How national labs are funded is its own completely bonkers system.

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