<p>If anyone is interested, Bloomberg magazine just put a report up indicating the schools with the highest average alumni giving rate over the last five years and the rankings are:</p>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>Univeristy of Pennsylvania</li>
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<p>This is a critical factor in rankings and this should hopefully translate into Cornell reaching top 10 within 2 years once again!</p>
<p>Woohoo! Go Big Red!</p>
<p>What are 4 and 5, if you don't mind me asking?</p>
<p>i hope you meant for the 2006 rankings...which would use at most recent the 2004 information...:p haha</p>
<p>the rankings breakdown for 2005 was as follows:
Peer assessment: 25%
Retention: 20%
--6 yr. grad. rate: 80%
--Frosh. retention rate: 20%
Faculty Resources: 20%
--% of classes <20 students: 30%
--% of classes >50 students: 10%
--Faculty salary: 35%
--% of profs. with terminal degree: 15%
--student-facultry ratio: 5%
--% of faculty who are full time: 5%
Student Selectivity: 15%
--SAT/ACT: 50%
--% of students who are top 10%/class: 40%
--acceptance rate: 10%
Financial Resources: 10%
Graduation Rate Performance (trend in grad rate): 5%
Alumni Giving Rate: 5%</p>
<p>So giving is more important than frosh retention, # of big classes, terminal degree posessing faculty, student faculty ratio, full time faculty, and acceptance rate, and equally important as Graduation Rate Performance.</p>
<p>Bloomberg Magazine Article Link:
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/media/markets/college.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.bloomberg.com/media/markets/college.pdf</a></p>
<p>The Bloomberg Chart has Cornell Alumni Ranked Second in the Ivy League for the 5 years 2000- 2004 in the average of total dollars contributed. It also lists Top LAC Colleges but it doesn't appear to rank colleges overall for alumni giving. </p>
<p>For the Purposes of US News, They look at the average percentage of alumni who gave to the school for the last two years.
The 2005 US News ranking uses the 2001-02 and 2002-03 years and has Cornell 15th of National Universities with 34% of alums making a contribution.</p>
<p>US News Rank by Alumni Contribution of National Universities shows
1 Princeton 61%
2 Notre Dame 48%
3 Dartmouth 47%
3 Harvard 48%
5 Duke 46%
6 Yale 45%
7 Lehigh University 40%
8 University Of Pennsylvania 39%
9 Brown 38%
9 Stanford 38%
9 WU in St Louis 38%
12 MIT 37%
13 University of Alabama 37%
14 Rice Univesity 36%
15 Cornell University 34%
16 California Inst of Tech. 34%
16 University of Southern California 34%
18 Columbia University 33%
18 Georgetown University 33%
18 Wake Forest University 33%</p>
<p>The US News Ranking would improve if everyone just sent in a Dollar, since that would be 100% contributing, despite the fact that it wouldn't be very much money.</p>
<p>Hopefully the mysterious (and to date unexplained) departure of Cornell's first President to have been an Alumni won't hurt the Percentage of Alumni giving to the University (or the amounts they contribute).
This other Bloomberg Article on College Giving Credits Lehman for Cornell's increase in Alumni giving.
[quote]
Ithaca, New York-based Cornell University ranked third in Rand's study with $385.9 million of donations. It has benefited from the fundraising efforts of President Jeffrey S. Lehman, who took office in July 2003, spokesman Simeon Moss said.
Since Lehman's arrival, the school has received a $50 million gift from a donor Cornell hasn't identified.
``That is the biggest chunk of enthusiasm,'' Moss said.
[/quote]
Link to Article:
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ayMyGgVjpp7s&refer=us%5B/url%5D">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ayMyGgVjpp7s&refer=us</a></p>
<p>By the way, when are the next USNews rankings published?</p>
<p>US News 2005 Premium online version ends on August 1st 2005.
The 2006 Rankings should be posted shortly after that.</p>