A list of school fundraising totals

College Search & Selection
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<ol>
<li> Stanford University ($640.11 million) </li>
<li> Harvard University ($601.64 million) </li>
<li> Cornell University ($446.75 million)</li>
<li> University of Pennsylvania ($439.77 million) (for the record, $10 of that, or 0.00001 million, was mine)</li>
<li> Johns Hopkins University ($433.39 million) </li>
<li> Columbia University ($413.36 million) </li>
<li> University of Southern California ($368.98 million) </li>
<li> Yale University ($358.15 million)</li>
<li> University of California, Los Angeles ($351.69 million)</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison ($341.81 million) </li>
<li>New York University ($334.79 million) </li>
<li>University of Washington ($323.55 million)</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($319.07 million) </li>
<li>Duke University ($301.65 million) </li>
<li>University of California, San Francisco ($300.42 million) </li>
<li>University of Minnesota ($272.35 million)</li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($270.11 million) </li>
<li>University of Michigan ($263.33 million) </li>
<li>University of California, Berkeley ($255.10 million)</li>
<li>University of Chicago ($248.80 million)</li>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/VSE_2009_Press_Relsease.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/VSE_2009_Press_Relsease.pdf&lt;/a> and a more comprehensive list <a href="http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/Top_Twenty_and_By_State_2009.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/Top_Twenty_and_By_State_2009.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>And in the Ivies (because if CC has taught me one thing, that’s all that matters in life)</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard $601.64 million</li>
<li>Cornell $446.75 million</li>
<li>Penn $439.77 million</li>
<li>Columbia $413.36 million</li>
<li>Yale $358.15 million</li>
<li>Princeton $214.15 million</li>
<li>Brown $192.83 million</li>
<li>Dartmouth $137.11 million</li>
</ol>

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<p>Interesting lists…</p>

<p>Thanks for posting and for posting the links!</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Fordham has its largest capital campaign in history going on right now. Its seeking to raise 500 milliion for Excelsior, the Campaign for Fordham. To date they have raised 300 million. The funds will go towards significantly expanding the facilities at Lincoln Center-Manhattan campus, including a new law school building, and for its venerable (and gorgeous) Rose Hill-Bronx campus. See Fordham.edu for details.</p>

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<p>Even if we were to adjust for size, this seems to be a relatively modest showing by Dartmouth. Not to pick on Dartmouth, but this example helps illustrate the inherent flaws of two popular metrics by which to judge universities:</p>

<p>(1) Payscale data </p>

<p>According to Payscale, Dartmouth alums earn more than the graduates of any other ivy. The exclusion of post-grads (e.g. legal and medical professionals) who have the highest earning potential makes this study problematic. </p>

<p>(2) USN&WR alumni giving rate</p>

<p>According to the USN&WR, Dartmouth has the second highest alumni giving rate among the ivies. It seems that PER CAPITA giving rate may be a more relevant criterion. If alumni giving rate is supposed to serve as a proxy for school loyalty (which I don’t think it does), then a case can be made that per capita giving rate may capture the INTENSITY of that loyalty.</p>

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<p>this illustrates the value of the cae numbers. unlike school press releases, ‘pledges’ are not included in fundraising numbers until they are actually received. for example, fordham claims about $190 million in donations in the past three years, including about $72 million last year. in reality, the school has only received $110 million over that span with less than $35 million actually switching hands last year. (my alma mater does the same thing, mind you, so im not trying to single fordham out.)</p>

<p>thats not to say that pledges arent important. rather, one simply needs to be careful on this issue so as to not compare apples (new money + pledges) to oranges (actual money received).</p>

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<p>on the question of per capita alumni giving being a superior metric of alumni satisfaction, i agree in theory. however, it poses its own significant set of problems. obviously, only giving by undergraduate alums would be counted. however, how should a richmond undergrad/richmond law alums $20 million gift to richmond law be counted? not a big deal either way when looking at alumni giving rate. but a huge deal when in comes to per capita giving. the same question goes for things like gifts from foundations, which can make up more than half of all gifts at some schools ($206 million of uclas $352 million in total giving last year was funneled through foundations).</p>

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<p>Many publics set-up private fundrasing foundations to keep the state’s grubby paws off the money and to allow for more flexible pay and operating rules outside state rules which can be very anti-performance.</p>

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<p>More data trend points</p>

<p>With changes in amounts raised and rank of top 20 since 2008 and 2004 (page 8): </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/VSE_2009_Press_Relsease.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/VSE_2009_Press_Relsease.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Meangirls, are post-grads excluded from this survey? Here’s the language from the press release</p>

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<p>I thought that means that while all alumni are counted, including graduate alumni, the undergraduate giving numbers are also down for schools that actually break out undergrad donors.</p>

<p>Also, I assume (but I could be wrong) that the reason that Dartmouth and Princeton are comparatively low is because of the lack of professional graduate schools–i.e., no medical or law schools. If all alumni are counted, then schools such as Harvard, with a plethora of professional schools, will do well (and larger schools should do better than smaller ones). In addition, because corporate contributions are counted, I assume that once again, professional schools will benefit from such contributions.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if I’m right about this?</p>

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<li>University of Michigan ($263.33 million) </li>
</ol>

<p>Not a bad showing considering they just finished up a 3.2 billion dollar fund raising campaign at the end of 2008.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins’ $3.74 billion capital campaign was LARGEST completed campaign by any US university in history. It was completed just last year in 2009.</p>

<p>It will soon be eclipsed by Stanford’s $3.8 billion dollar (2011) tho. Just by $6 million dollars :HEHE:</p>

<p>Penn and Cornell each probably have +$4 billion dollar goals but they haven’t been completed yet.</p>

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<p>It took Johns Hopkins well over eight years to get to that total. Michigan accomplished theirs in five.
;-)</p>

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<p>A big factor in this ranking is whether a university has a medical school. Like research $, fundraising $ is closely correlated to that. A separate ranking of schools with and without medical schools would be interesting (the research $ lists already do this.)</p>

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<p>This is an excellent point. For example, take a look at no. 15, UC-SF… that’s all about the power of med school research funding $ right there (doesn’t even have an undergrad program!).</p>

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<p>^ apply that logic to Emory vs UC Berkeley please.</p>

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<p>Does everything HAVE to be about Cal? It is simply amazing that everything comes back to Cal. </p>

<p>Why not read what JWT86 wrote. Please re-read if necessary. </p>

<p>It simply says that universities with medical schools tend to skew this ranking. MIT doesn’t have a med school either but ranks above Cal (and kicks Cal’s arse when you normalize per capita) – but that isn’t even the point. Who said anything about Cal in the first place? Was Cal mentioned? Where was Cal brought up? Cal, Cal, Cal… I mean really, dude, give it a rest.</p>

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<p>From the start, Hopkins original goal was set at **$2 billion<a href=“start%202000,%20end%20Dec%202008”>/B</a>. Exceeded that 2 years ahead of schedule back in 2007.</p>

<p>Hopkins trustees then ambitiously raised the goal from $2 billion to $3.2 billion. It exceeded that figure back 5 months before the campaign was due to end in Dec of 2008 (Final count $3.741 billion) Exceeded only by Stanford’s $3.8 billion dollar campaign.</p>

<p>Then by Dec of 2008, Hopkins exceed its revised goal of $3.2 bn dollar goal by like… $540 million dollars.</p>

<p>Very interesting. JHU remains a top 5 fundraiser in 2009 despite having a new President and having the campaign ended in 2008.</p>

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<p>There are a lot of major fundraising campaigns underway right now to deal with the budget cuts for publics and endowment investment beatings privates took.
From yesterday’s Chronicle:
[Updates</a> on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 33 Universities - Fund Raising - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Updates-on-Billion-Dollar/63990/]Updates”>http://chronicle.com/article/Updates-on-Billion-Dollar/63990/)
Among those seeking to raise $1-billion or more, the campaign with the largest gain in the last month was the University of Pennsylvania, with $74.2-million.</p>

<p>The 33 universities—each with its most recent total, last month’s increase, the original goal, and the planned completion date—are as follows:</p>

<p>Boston College, $646.8-million as of December 31 (increase of $26.3-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2015.</p>

<p>Brandeis University, $866-million as of December 31 (increase of $7-million in the last month); the goal is $1.22-billion by 2013.</p>

<p>Brown University, $1.47-billion as of December 31 (increase of $30.3-million in the last month); the goal was $1.4-billion by 2010.</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon University, $616.9-million as of December 31 (increase of $7.7-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2013.</p>

<p>City University of New York, $1.521-billion as of April 30, 2009 (update not available); the goal is $3-billion by 2015.</p>

<p>Columbia University, $3.418-billion as of December 31 (increase of $127-million since the last update available); the goal is $4-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>Cornell University, $2.651-billion as of December 31 (increase of $15.7-million in the last month); the goal is $4-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>Dartmouth College, $1.308-billion as of December 31 (increase of $34-million in the last month); the goal was $1.3-billion by 2009.</p>

<p>Emory University, $1.022-billion as of December 31 (increase of $10.9-million in the last month); the goal is $1.6-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>Indiana University at Bloomington, $1.054-billion as of December 31 (increase of $17-million in the last month); the goal is $1.1-billion by 2010.</p>

<p>Princeton University, $1.073-billion as of December 31 (increase of $18-million in the last month); the goal is $1.75-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>Rice University, $578.7-million as of December 31 (increase of $4.3-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>Stanford University, $4.483-billion as of August 31 (university reports numbers annually); the goal was $4.3-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>State University of New York, $2.37-billion as of October 31, 2008 (update not available); the goal is $3-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>Syracuse University, $700-million as of December 31 (increase of $11-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>Tufts University, $1.044-billion as of December 31 (increase of $10-million in the last month); the goal is $1.2-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>The University of California at Berkeley, $1.691-billion as of December 31 (increase of $5.4-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2013.</p>

<p>The University of California at Irvine, $504.4-million as of December 31 (increase of $5.7-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2015.</p>

<p>The University of Cincinnati, $638.6-million as of December 31 (increase of $18.1-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2013.</p>

<p>The University of Florida, $1.039-billion as of December 31 (increase of $66.3-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>The University of Illinois system, $1.791-billion as of December 31 (increase of $31-million in the last month); the goal is $2.25-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>The University of Maryland at College Park, $692.7-million as of December 31 (increase of $21.3-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>The University of Nebraska, $671.4-million as of November 30 (no update available); the goal is $1.2-billion by 2014.</p>

<p>The University of Notre Dame, $1.649-billion as of December 31 (increase of $35-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>The University of Pennsylvania, $2.631-billion as of December 31 (increase of $74.2-million in the last month); the goal is $3.5-billion by 2012.</p>

<p>The University of Pittsburgh, $1.431-billion as of December 31 (increase of $11-million in the last month); the goal is $2-billion by 2014.</p>

<p>The University of Tennessee, $953-million as of December 31 (increase of $28.5-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>The University of Texas at Austin, $983.6-million as of December 31 (increase of $23-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2014.</p>

<p>The University of Utah, $742.5-million as of December 31 (increase of $33.7-million in the last month); the goal is $1.2-billion by 2013.</p>

<p>The University of Virginia, $2.082-billion as of December 31 (increase of $34.9-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2011.</p>

<p>Vanderbilt University, $1.749-billion as of December 31 (increase of $24-million in the last month); the goal is $1.75-billion by 2010.</p>

<p>Virginia Tech, $891.2-million as of December 31 (increase of $27.3-million in the last month); the goal is $1-billion by 2010.</p>

<p>Yale University, $2.866-billion as of December 31 (increase of $60-million in the last month); the goal is $3.5-billion by 2011.</p>

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<p>prestige, Cal doesn’t technically have a medical school, so it relates to JWT’s point. :-P</p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford University ($640.11 million) </li>
<li>Harvard University ($601.64 million) </li>
<li>Berkeley/UCSF ($555.52 million) [Then add LBNL, LLNL and LANL like the APL @ JHU] :wink: </li>
<li>Cornell University ($446.75 million)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania ($439.77 million)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University ($433.39 million) </li>
<li>Columbia University ($413.36 million) </li>
<li>University of Southern California ($368.98 million) </li>
<li>Yale University ($358.15 million)</li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles ($351.69 million)</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison ($341.81 million) </li>
<li>New York University ($334.79 million) </li>
<li>University of Washington ($323.55 million)</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($319.07 million) </li>
<li>Duke University ($301.65 million)<br></li>
<li>University of Minnesota ($272.35 million)</li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($270.11 million) </li>
<li>University of Michigan ($263.33 million) </li>
<li>University of Chicago ($248.80 million)</li>
</ol>

<p>That’s better.</p>

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<p>^^^LOL. Sorry, defacto schools don’t count!</p>