Аннотация:Sustainable development is an important condition for the successful and effective development of most organizations and projects. Universities as organizations are also interested in sustainable development of their activities. In this article, one form of university activity is considered, namely R&D activities and the possibility of its sustainable development over the long term. To achieve the objective optimization model is used, which gives the most favourable option for the use of own funds of universities to smooth and increase the growth rate of the financial flow. The model uses mathematical and machine learning methods. The model has some degree of simplification and abstraction of reality. But the application of the model on real US indicators provided interesting results and conclusions.