> I've not seen 60+% in any grant I've ever worked with. In smaller institutions they tend to be around 10-20%. On the larger campuses, the average indirect ra

> I've not seen 60+% in any grant I've ever worked with. In smaller institutions they tend to be around 10-20%. On the larger campuses, the average indirect rate was 32%. I run a company that has won many Federal grants and subcontracted a lot of work to universities in the Boston and Cambridge area. Let's look at the current indirect rates for universities I've worked with: 1) Harvard: up to 69.5% for Federally funded research [1] 2) MIT: currently 56%, but in 2010, it was 68% [2] 3) Boston University: 63.7% [3] 4) Northeastern University: 54.5% [4] 60% as an average is much closer to what I see than 32%. The Boston Globe says the national average is 52% [5]. P.S. On a tip from a friend, I'll add that MGH's indirect rate is 74% [6] [1] http://osp.fad.harvard.edu/content/fa-cost-rates-federal-sponsors http://osp.fad.harvard.edu/content/fa-cost-rates-federal-spo... [2] http://osp.mit.edu/rates/facilities-and-administrative-fa-rates http://osp.mit.edu/rates/facilities-and-administrative-fa-ra... [3] http://www.bu.edu/osp/files/2012/03/RateAgreement22Feb2013.pdf http://www.bu.edu/osp/files/2012/03/RateAgreement22Feb2013.p... [4] http://www.northeastern.edu/research/raf/files/Indirect-Cost-Rate-2013.pdf http://www.northeastern.edu/research/raf/files/Indirect-Cost... [5] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/03/17/harvard-mit-thwart-effort-cap-overhead-payments/Ridc4YwDfkGlmWfUUJ0snI/story.html http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/03/17/harvard-mit-thw... [6] http://resadmin.partners.org/RM_Home/Documents/2011%2005%2006%20MGH%20DHHS-Rate%20Agrmt-IDC.pdf http://resadmin.partners.org/RM_Home/Documents/2011%2005%200...