The university is ranked among the Top 15 US universities in NASA funding. UMBC's NASA-funded centers at NASA Goddard include the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), and the Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST).[1] In April 2021, CSST received an additional $54M in funding from NASA Goddard for astrophysics research.[27]