<li>Stanford U. $832,344,826<br></li>
<li>Harvard U. $613,985,000<br></li>
<li>U. of Southern California $469,646,622<br></li>
<li>Johns Hopkins U. $430,455,336 </li>
<li>Columbia U. $423,849,107<br></li>
<li>Cornell U. $406,925,075<br></li>
<li>U. of Pennsylvania $392,420,770<br></li>
<li>Yale U. $391,315,420<br></li>
<li>Duke U. $372,328,154<br></li>
<li>U. of California at Los Angeles $364,779,738<br></li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology $329,158,304<br></li>
<li>U. of Chicago $328,328,020<br></li>
<li>U. of Wisconsin at Madison $325,336,779<br></li>
<li>U. of Washington $300,199,601<br></li>
<li>U. of Michigan $293,403,123<br></li>
<li>U. of Minnesota $288,750,059<br></li>
<li>New York U. $287,587,458<br></li>
<li>U. of Virginia $282,610,619<br></li>
<li>Indiana U. $278,553,274<br></li>
<li>U. of California at San Francisco $251,945,342<br>
SOURCE: Council for Aid to Education</li>
</ol>
<p>This list makes me even more agitated than I already am. I just read Stanford announced today it has increased finanical aid significantly. It makes me regret not applying to Stanford, even though I wanted to go to Berkeley more. As much as I love Berkeley...it makes me wonder what the hell are they doing? Did they just not report how much they raised that year? For a school with some of the most brillant academics in the world why has it just recently occurred to them that we need to build an endowment? No one at Berkeley thought after previous budget crunches and seeing privates work ferociously at getting donations that the situation we're in now could occur? Or is it that Berkeley alum just aren't as appreciative and don't give? I don't know what it is but Berkeley better pick it up and get on the ball! I can understand some schools raising more but Indiana U, UMinnesota, NYU being able to raise more than Berkeley.....with all the wealthy alumni that Berkeley has?</p>
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In our current era, both state and private support are necessary. Today, the state provides only approximately 34 % of the budget. As state support has declined, private support has grown. In 1980, when the state still provided more than half of the budget, the campus raised a modest $27 million. In 1985, Cal embarked on its first capital campaign, which was called the “Keeping the Promise” Campaign. The Campaign raised $469 million—at that time, a record for a public university. </p>
<p>In 2000, the campus completed a second campaign with unprecedented success. The “Campaign for the New Century” had a goal of $1.1 billion. When this second campaign was launched publicly in 1996, it was the most ambitious campaign undertaken by a university without a medical school. At its close on December 31, 2000, Cal had raised $1.44 billion.
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Alumni, parents, and friends of the University of California, Berkeley contributed $267.9 million in gifts and pledges in the 2006–07 fiscal year to support students, faculty, and research to help extend Cal’s excellence.
The private support was mostly in the form of outright gifts, pledge payments, and matching gifts totaling $200 million. The balance of private support, $67.9 million, came in the form of new pledges. There were 85,061 gifts and pledges from 57,850 donors. While overall private support declined from the record high of $347.6 million the previous fiscal year, the total number of gifts and pledges in 2006–07 represents the fourth highest level ever raised at UC Berkeley.
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<p>This figure puts it at No. 20...</p>
<p>Berkeley definitely has it's work cut out for it... I'm doing my <em>small</em> part. :)</p>
<p>^yea i've seen the brochure and been to the website. Berkeley is trying, but it seems they waited way too long to begin fundraising like the privates. Its in the middle of a major endowment campaign, in the silent phase right now and had collected around 850 million about 5 months ago. I still don't know about Berkeley's alumni....they need to give alot more...alumni giving rate for Cal is much lower than even UVA and UMich. One instance that just irks me somewhat is Cal alum Gordon Moore, who has given somewhat to Cal, but gave 600 MILLION DOLLARS to Caltech...with a UG pop. of only 850 and already very wealthy for its size. He also has a hall named after him a Stanford. It's his money and he can spend it however he wants I just wonder why he isn't as generous to Cal. Perhaps he will make a donation and I will look like an ass. I just hope some of Berkeley's other alumni decide to help the school out. I know if I had billions I'd give alot to the school.</p>
<p>Yea I read that too :) He seems very qualified and did a great job at Wellesley. Let's hope he can do the same for Berkeley. I'm going to be working at the call center and from what they've told me they're doing very well this year.....although what they raise isn't too much with the goal this year being around 3 million. The people who interviewed me said the main purpose of the call center is to raise alum awareness and thus start a tradition of giving like the privates. I'm more excited to try and get involved during the public phase of the endowment campaign, although right now I'm wondering if it is the best time to be campaigning with all these worries over the state of the economy.</p>