# A new professor needs about $1.5m to get going # A new professor needs about -1-5m to get going This money is meant to help set up a lab and buy equipment According to this list of grants [New Faculty/Young Investigators | FSU Office of Research](https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ord/finding-funding/new-facultyyoung-investigators/) * NSF Early career - $400k + over five years * NASA - $240k over three years * Air Force - $360k over three years * Navy - $510k over three years ### Related * [[§Academia and Research]]