<p>Each year the Council for Aid to Education releases a list of the top fundraising colleges for the previous year. Funds included are those received, not pledged. Pledged funds are included in the years the money is received. </p>
<p>The Top Five Fundraising Universities in 2013 in Millions: (Source is Council for Aid to Education)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Stanford
$931.57</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard
$792.26</p></li>
<li><p>University of Southern California
$674.51</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia
$646.66</p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins
$518.57</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Other institutions in the top ten were Penn, Cornell, NYU, Yale and Duke.</p>