<p>Harvard, Stanford can get about 500 million per year from donors. </p>
<p>Universities like Cornell, Upenn and Umich can collect well above 300 million per year. </p>
<p>UChicago only collected 10 billion in the past 5-year campaign, about 200 million per year, just in the same level as Northwestern. </p>
<p>Serious efforts should be paid to fundraising. With a endowment of only 3.6 billion, how can UChicago compete with HYPS and MIT. The least number among them is MIT's 6 billion.</p>
<p>compare the average starting salary of a chicago graduate and a harvard graduate. alums are the largest donors.</p>
<p>if i'm not mistaken, you attributed a 10 billion dollar collection over the past 5 years. since i am planning to be a math major, i hope i am correct in saying this is 2 billion per year? what are you talking about.</p>
<p>If I am not mistaken, you can figure out what I am talking about the problem. If your manner is friendly, please aim your reply at the topic, not at me. Thanks.</p>
<p>You do realize that Chicago has fewer students than all of those colleges, especially Cornell and Michigan?</p>
<p>You mean college students?</p>
<p>Um, how are you attempting to be "friendly" bringing these types of topics up? Does Chicago cheat when they count Nobel laureates? Does the school fundraise just like Penn? Are these actually issues you take into consideration in applying and choosing a school and that you think will benefit others?</p>
<p>Cheat? Did I say so? </p>
<p>That topic of mine about Chicagos Nobel Laureates is about deserving.</p>
<p>In my mind, only two cases can be considered deserving. One is that the laureate is a graduate of the university. The other is that the research for which he or she was awarded Nobel Prize was accomplished at the university. The first one concerns the quality of the universitys education, while the second concerns the quality of the university's research. Some people replied that MIT and Caltech also count their prizes in the way Chicago adopted. I think that only means MIT and Caltech do not deserve the prizes they declared either. Deserving means the university's great contributions to the world. Do you really think a visiting professor of only several years can be included? Nobel Prize is sacred and should not become a tool for universities to earn good looks.</p>
<p>Fundraising is obviously among the most important to universities today. With fewer funds, how can Chicago compete with other top universities in the nation and keep its permanent excellence. Chicago is the best university in this nation in my mind without "one of". However, "friendly" doesn't mean I would always like to say positive things for it.</p>
<p>if you really feel this way why don't you post it on every other forum. if you don't do that you're either hating or you have nothing to do with your time and you're a loser.</p>
<p>Chicago can still remain "competitive" by attracting quality applicants with the promise of a devoutly intellectual community, just as it has for the past couple of decades (I don't think any of us on this board are old enough to remember when UChicago was a hardcore football school--kind of awkward when you think about it O_o).</p>
<p>Lucifer shows a sad naivete regarding fundraising in the academic world. Chicago tries as hard as anyone to raise money. But the truth is that undergrads are the most reliable donors to any school, followed by professional school alums, especially law and business. </p>
<p>Chicago, unlike most of the ivies, has a strong academic bent, not a pre-professional bent. So, many of its best undergrads go to grad school, not law or b-school, and end up with careers that limit their giving ability. </p>
<p>So, I guess, if you want executive chef prepared lunches, go to Yale. You want the absolute fanciest facilities, go Harvard. You want to learn?....</p>
<p>People raised the topic 7 years ago, Chicago should work hard. Chicago has a very top law school, a very top B-school, and a medical center, 10,492 graduate, professional, and other students (<a href=“http://college.uchicago.edu/about-college/facts[/url]”>http://college.uchicago.edu/about-college/facts</a>). How can Princeton have such a big endowment of 17 billions? Princeton doesn’t have any law school, B-school and medical school.</p>
<p>david05 - yes, for UChicago to not even be in the top 20 this year is disappointing. I’m not quite sure how this happened. UChicago is a bit smaller than some of its peers, but the gap is alarming. Yes, some schools are in the midst of fundraising campaigns, so that explains some strong performances by some schools. Nevertheless, to be a research “powerhouse,” fundraising must be at the core of the school’s mission these days.</p>
<p>I was surprised and disappointed to see these results.</p>
<p>DivineComedy - some of the posts on this thread are very old, as in, 7 years old. That post was made years ago.</p>