Top 20 College and University fundraisers

[Curtis Carter]

Top 20 college and university fundraisers
By The Associated Press

The top 20 college and universities, ranked by dollars received in fiscal 2008:

1. Stanford University — $785.04 million

2. Harvard University — $650.63 million

3. Columbia University — $495.11 million

4. Yale University — $486.61 million

5. University of Pennsylvania — $475.96 million

6. University of California, Los Angeles _$456.65 million

7. Johns Hopkins University — $448.96 million

8. University of Wisconsin-Madison — $410.23 million

9. Cornell University — $409.42 million

10. University of Southern California — $409.18 million

11. Indiana University — $408.62 million

12. New York University — $387.61 million

13. Duke University — $385.67 million

14. University of California, San Francisco — $366.07 million

15. University of Michigan — $333.45 million

16. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $311.90 million

17. University of Minnesota — $307.61 million

18. University of Washington — $302.77 million

19. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — $292.39 million

20. University of California, Berkeley — $285.35 million

Source: Council for Aid to Education, Voluntary Support of Education Survey

[stefanodimera]

That's actually great information to know, thanks.

For people who are interested, this is the 2005 listing of top ten universities by size of the endowment:

1. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) 25,221,804,000
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 15,091,021,000
3. Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) 12,205,035,000
3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 11,200,000,000
5. Univ. of Texas System Administration (Austin, Tex.) 11,101,608,088
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) 6,712,400,000
7. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.) 5,190,564,000
8. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 4,931,338,357
9. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 4,454,451,325
10. Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) 4,383,295,000

Source: The Top Ten: Largest College and University Endowments

Which shows that to RAISE money you've got to HAVE money!

[Curtis Carter]

That's actually great information to know, thanks.

For people who are interested, this is the 2005 listing of top ten universities by size of the endowment:

1. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) 25,221,804,000
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 15,091,021,000
3. Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) 12,205,035,000
3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 11,200,000,000
5. Univ. of Texas System Administration (Austin, Tex.) 11,101,608,088
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) 6,712,400,000
7. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.) 5,190,564,000
8. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 4,931,338,357
9. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 4,454,451,325
10. Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) 4,383,295,000

Source: The Top Ten: Largest College and University Endowments

Which shows that to RAISE money you've got to HAVE money!

That's true.

That list is sorta dated but I believe the top 10 are the same.

[karl]

ok, that is actually good to know