Five Top Fundraising Universities for Fiscal 2012

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<p>The Council for Aid to Education has released their survey of higher education fundraising for fiscal year 2012. Here are the top five universities:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Stanford----------$1.03 billion</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard------------$650 million</p></li>
<li><p>Yale----------------$544 million</p></li>
<li><p>University of Southern California-------------$492 million</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia-----------$490 million</p></li>
</ol>

<p>The top ten fundraising colleges collected 17% of the donations to 3,500 accredited, nonprofit institutions included in the survey. Those ten collected $5.3 billion even though they represent 0.3%.</p>

<p>Numbers posted above are from an AP article dated February 20, 2013.</p>

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<p>Is there a link Georgia girl?</p>

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<p>EDIT: Never mind–wrong year. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Thank you 45 percenter. Glad to see you back.</p>

<p>Thanks cltdad.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/Top_Twenty_and_By_State_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cae.org/content/pdf/Top_Twenty_and_By_State_2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Here are the top 10–THIS time for FY 2012. ;)</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. — $1.035 billion </p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. — $650 million </p></li>
<li><p>Yale University, New Haven, Conn. — $544 million </p></li>
<li><p>University of Southern California, Los Angeles — $492 million </p></li>
<li><p>Columbia University, New York — $490 million </p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore — $480 million </p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia — $441 million </p></li>
<li><p>University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. — $405 million </p></li>
<li><p>New York University, New York — $396 million </p></li>
<li><p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. — $379 million </p></li>
</ol>

<p>[Top</a> 10 fundraising colleges at a glance - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-fundraising-colleges-glance-051550951.html]Top”>Top 10 fundraising colleges at a glance)</p>

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<p>Wonder why the top fundraiser is also raising tuition by 3.5% :p</p>

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<p>Some schools, including Emory University, are excluded from cltdad’s list. </p>

<p>One thing I find odd is the seeming reluctance of people and corporations to donate to their state’s flagship. After all, those institutions often drive the state’s economic growth, and many of the most successful people in any state graduated from one of the flagships.</p>

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<p>Berkeley’s numbers without a med school are impressive.
Adding in Berkeley’s defacto med school across the bay, UCSF - which is med school only, the list looks like this:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. — $1.035 billion </p></li>
<li><p>Berkeley/UCSF, Berkeley/San Francisco, Calif. - $735 million</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. — $650 million </p></li>
</ol>

<p>More of an apples to apples comparison, IMHO. :)</p>

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<p>Are they excluded for a specific reason or did they just not turn in their numbers?</p>

<p>The report shows a combined number for UC system. It seems to be higher than Stanford. However, they break it down again into individual colleges.</p>

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<p>Did you notice how the CAE screwed up in its press release? It erroneously refers to USC as “UCLA” in mentioning the only school in the past 15 years to have beaten Harvard and Stanford in raising the most money in a single year. Lol.</p>

<p>Well done, Stanford, USC …and Cal!</p>

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<p>Wow, Stanford blows all others out of the water. This supports my theory that in 20 years, two universities (Harvard and Stanford) will be on a tier of their own among all universities in the world.</p>

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<p>^ Nope. It really is disgusting. :)</p>

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<p>I’m also wondering how much of the fundraising for Stanford includes unfunded liabilities, like hedge funds dollars that are illiquid and difficult to evaluate.</p>

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<p>Across what period of time is this being measured? All of 2012? I wonder if UCLA’s account takes into consideration Geffen’s recent 100m donation.</p>

<p>I know UCLA raised +400m for the fiscal year 2011-12</p>

<p>[Campus</a> surpasses $400M fundraising milestone again / UCLA Today](<a href=“http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-surpasses-400m-fundraising-237539.aspx]Campus”>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-surpasses-400m-fundraising-237539.aspx)</p>

<p>I wonder what it’ll report for fiscal year 2012-13 (it ends this June.)</p>

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<p>Especially stunning is Stanford’s like 2 times of No.2 Harvard,</p>

<p>while No.2 to No.10 are all close in numbers.</p>

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<p>I guarantee that some if not most of these schools are in the midst of a campaign drive to raise funds. When the campaign ends, the dollars drop as well.</p>

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<p>According to the NY Times, Stanford’s FY 2012 total marked the first time any college or university had topped $1 billion in a single year and marked the final push in a 5-year capital campaign that raised a record $6.5 billion (some of which undoubtedly came in the “quiet phase” of the capital campaign, where they start to build up the war chest before officially announcing the campaign, which is why $6.5 bill over 5 years doesn’t get to $1 bill in any one year until the final year–it’s really more like $6.5 bill over 7 or 8 years). </p>

<p>Impressive, but we can expect to see Stanford with a smaller FY 2013 haul now that the capital campaign is finished.</p>

<p>Some other schools mentioned as being in the middle of capital campaigns: Columbia and USC. I’m sure some of the other big fundraising schools are as well.</p>

<p><a href=“Stanford Fund-Raising Topped $1 Billion in 2012 - The New York Times”>Stanford Fund-Raising Topped $1 Billion in 2012 - The New York Times;

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<p>These lists can be so misleading…and marketing is important and the UC system lets itself get lost in the shuffle in particular, with its light under a bushel. As UCBChemE quoted (sorry, I don’t know how to quote), when Berkeley’s de facto med school UCSF is included, the rankings change a lot. </p>

<p>"Berkeley’s numbers without a med school are impressive.
Adding in Berkeley’s defacto med school across the bay, UCSF - which is med school only, the list looks like this:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. — $1.035 billion </p></li>
<li><p>Berkeley/UCSF, Berkeley/San Francisco, Calif. - $735 million</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. — $650 million </p></li>
</ol>

<p>More of an apples to apples comparison, IMHO."</p>

<p>To be fair, though, UCSF is more than just a med school, but it is the second best medical school in the world after Harvard according to one prominent ranking:</p>

<p>[The</a> Best Medical Schools In The World - Academic Ranking of World Universities Ranking](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>The Best Medical Schools In The World - Academic Ranking of World Universities Ranking | HuffPost College)</p>

<p>Stanford gets – and deserves – a lot of kudos. But it’s pretty pointless to compare universities with med schools to ones without – on so many levels. MIT also gets short shrift. USC and UCLA add to the California performance admirably…</p>

<p>Another example: UCSF’s Gladstone got another Nobel prize this year. That institution has won more Nobel prizes, only being a grad school, than most full-service universities…</p>

<p>Just sayin’. So those saying Harvard and Stanford are in a class by themselves: keep looking over your shoulders. :)</p>

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<p>Berkeley is finally getting much of the funding it needs to compete against the private schools. It is smack in the middle of the Ivies in terms of funding.</p>