Abstract
This study analyzed the data of the acceptance of external funds in national universities in the period including the transformation into independent corporations. As a result, it is revealed that the differentials among universities exist in the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher, and the differentials correlate moderately with the numbers of teachers of universities, and that the differentials are expanding and the increase-decrease rates of the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher correlate weakly with the numbers of teachers of universities, and that the acceptance amounts of external funds per item in grants-in-aid for scientific research and consigned research funds and the acceptance numbers of items of external funds per teacher in donated funds for scholarly activities and joint research funds correlate more strongly with the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher. In the future, it will be necessary to analyze the external funds considering the differences in the formation of faculties and graduate schools, and to study what the systems of external funds accepted from companies should be.
