[mnky9800n]

It’s also that most r1 university budgets single largest contributor is grant overhead which is the approximate 50% of the grant you win is given to the university. But the people who write and win these grants have little say over how this money is spent. Also because universities are impervious to reorganising there is a lot of extra weight within departments as well.

[827a]

The Trump administration has actually passed an order to limit this to 15% of the grant value. But, the point stands.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate