Contributions to the Nation’s Colleges and Universities Decline in 2009

College Search & Selection
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<p>Stanford tops the list followed by Harvard, then Cornell, UPenn, and Johns Hopkins.</p>

<p>The nation’s top 20 fundraising universities (and dollars received) in 2009 are:
1. Stanford University ($640.11 million)
2. Harvard University ($601.64 million)
3. Cornell University ($446.75 million)
4. University of Pennsylvania ($439.77 million)
5. Johns Hopkins University ($433.39 million)
6. Columbia University ($413.36 million)
7. University of Southern California ($368.98 million)
8. Yale University ($358.15 million)
9. University of California, Los Angeles ($351.69 million)
10. University of Wisconsin-Madison ($341.81 million)
11. New York University ($334.79 million)
12. University of Washington ($323.55 million)
13. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($319.07 million)
14. Duke University ($301.65 million)
15. University of California, San Francisco ($300.42 million)
16. University of Minnesota ($272.35 million)
17. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($270.11 million)
18. University of Michigan ($263.33 million)
19. University of California, Berkeley ($255.10 million)
20. University of Chicago ($248.80 million)
The top 20 institutions represent 1.9 percent of the 1,027 survey respondents. However,
contributions to these 20 institutions account for 26.2 percent of all 2009 gifts to higher
education institutions. Two-thirds of the institutions that replied to the survey in both 2008 and
2009 reported declines in support. As a group, private liberal arts colleges reported the largest
decline in charitable giving (18.3 percent). [The survey’s two responding private associate’s
colleges reported a larger decline, but the sample is small, and the drop may not be representative
of these institutions overall.]</p>

<p><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>

<p><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&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>wow, hopkins in the top 5. I love hopkins. I love how they are quite strong on medicine and programs allied to medicine. their contributions to society - in the health sector specifically - is immeasurable. i would send my son there if he’ll decide he’d like to become a doctor someday.</p>

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<p>if UCSF and UC Berkeley weren’t separated, they would probably reap more than half a billion dollars together and would land in the top 3. Stanford has always been fantastic when it comes to raising money. UCLA & USC are also impressive. Yale lost it this time. and where is Princeton in this elite list of schools?</p>

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<p>[There</a> is already a thread on this.](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/859884-2009-fundraising-university-college.html]There”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/859884-2009-fundraising-university-college.html) </p>

<p>Since the above list includes only universities and since many posters will not browse through the links, here is the list for the most popular liberal arts colleges:</p>

<p>


Washington and Lee University  66,180,409 
Bowdoin College 59,318,730
Smith College  43,718,442 
Wellesley College  38,242,072 
Trinity College  36,417,373 
Vassar College  35,479,604 
Williams College  34,217,220 
Middlebury College 32,134,702
Wesleyan University  31,883,646 
Amherst College  29,662,581 
Centre College  28,720,069 
Oberlin College  26,089,684 
Davidson College  24,916,421 
Bucknell University  24,578,138 
College of the Holy Cross  23,391,104 
Colgate University  23,251,381 
Kenyon College  22,750,357 
Skidmore College  22,176,609 
Claremont McKenna College  21,309,722 
Harvey Mudd College  21,295,723
Carleton College  21,245,100 
Wheaton College (IL) 20,653,011 
Bryn Mawr College  20,076,258
Furman University  19,745,437<br>
Colby College  19,632,148 
Mount Holyoke College  19,604,427 
Swarthmore College  18,784,341
Wabash College  18,597,518 
Franklin and Marshall College  17,670,619 
Lawrence University  16,806,543 
Hamilton College  16,509,369 
Willamette University  16,355,843 
Hollins University  16,080,918 
Hope College  15,743,271 
Washington College  15,608,997
Macalester College  14,689,859 
Colorado College  14,241,494 
St. Lawrence University  14,182,629 
Wofford College  13,984,583 
Denison University  13,909,740
Pomona College  13,736,457 
Hobart and William Smith Colleges  13,415,839
Lafayette College  13,377,040<br>
Wheaton College (MA) 13,108,594 
St. Olaf College  12,739,775 
Connecticut College  12,441,907 
Haverford College  12,363,805 
The Reed Institute  12,321,274 
Roanoke College  12,042,779 
Occidental College  11,642,899
University of the South  11,585,370<br>
Babson College  11,580,467
Goucher College  11,462,040
Beloit College  11,453,578 
Union College  11,272,537
Allegheny College  11,230,213 
Ohio Wesleyan University  11,055,043 
University of Puget Sound  10,794,925 
Ursinus College  10,783,532 
Hendrix College  10,730,303 
Sarah Lawrence College  10,614,931
Washington and Jefferson College  10,574,227 
Simmons College  10,483,978
Whitman College  10,416,088 
College of Wooster  10,028,413<br>
Scripps College  9,993,124
Cornell College  9,810,205 
Bennington College  9,804,351 
North Carolina, University of-Asheville  9,238,045 
Lake Forest College  9,226,583 
Dickinson College  9,099,114 
Rhodes College  8,898,701 
Sweet Briar College  8,766,866 
Bates College  8,612,735 
Birmingham-Southern College  8,215,522 
Hampden-Sydney College  7,930,027 
Lewis and Clark College  7,875,404 
Randolph-Macon College  7,757,129<br>
Gettysburg College  7,680,994 
Randolph College  7,587,905 
Juniata College  7,286,445 
Susquehanna University  7,164,085 
Presbyterian College  7,146,812 
Morehouse College  7,047,089
Muhlenberg College  6,844,165 
Grinnell College  6,671,602 
Knox College  6,115,769 
Agnes Scott College  5,962,389<br>
Albion College  5,699,634 
Wittenberg University  5,697,209 
Pitzer College  5,499,349

</p>

<p>

  1. Indiana University $247,616,245
  2. Ohio State University $237,052,335
  3. University of Virginia $233,473,048
  4. Princeton University $214,152,929
  5. University of Florida $202,574,212
  6. Brown University $192,835,815
  7. Texas A&M University 186,597,643
  8. University of Notre Dame 186,452,818<br>
  9. Northwestern University 181,741,062
  10. Georgetown University $181,179,538</p>
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<p>It seems Penn is destined to be #4 in just about everything…oh well, could be worse :)</p>

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<p>Looks like every school has been hit!</p>

<p>What do we expect? I mean no one is infallible to this economy.</p>