<p>More alumni give money to these schools than to any other institutions.</p>
<p>by Katy Hopkins
Thursday, January 27, 2011</p>
<p>School Name % of
Alumni
Gift-Givers U.S. News Ranking & Category
Webb Institute 70.9 Unranked
Carleton College 61.3 8, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Princeton University 60.3 2, National Universities
Middlebury College 60.1 4, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Amherst College 59.5 2, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Williams College 57.6 1, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Centre College 56.7 47, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Indiana Institute of Technology 55.1 Unranked
Davidson College 54 9, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Thomas Aquinas College 52.5 71, National Liberal Arts Colleges </p>
<p>USNWR didn’t rank the most “loved” schools. SparkEye7’s article merely took USNWR ranking data that had been available months ago and drew a gross, irrelevant conclusion based around it.</p>
<p>In another old thread on this topic, someone said their alma mater mailed them a nickel and asked them to send it back to boost their alumni giving rate.</p>
<p>And there are the most EFFECTIVE fundraisers</p>
<p>2009 Total 1-Year % Change 2009 Rank 2008 Rank<br>
Stanford University $ 640,107,311 -18.5% 1 1<br>
Harvard University $ 601,636,000 -7.5% 2 2<br>
Cornell University $ 446,749,543 +9.1% 3 9<br>
University of Pennsylvania $ 439,768,922 -7.6% 4 5<br>
Johns Hopkins University $ 433,387,640 -3.5% 5 7<br>
Columbia University $ 413,358,859 -16.5% 6 3<br>
University of Southern California $ 368,981,377 -9.8% 7 10<br>
Yale University $ 358,147,948 -26.4% 8 4<br>
University of California at Los Angeles $ 351,688,985 -23.0% 9 6<br>
University of Wisconsin at Madison $ 341,805,035 -16.7% 10 8<br>
New York University $ 334,787,429 -13.6% 11 12<br>
University of Washington $ 323,545,197 +6.9% 12 18<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology $ 319,074,750 +2.3% 13 16<br>
Duke University $ 301,647,088 -21.8% 14 13<br>
University of California at San Francisco $ 300,424,315 -17.9% 15 14<br>
University of Minnesota $ 272,353,115 -11.5% 16 17<br>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $ 270,111,159 -7.6% 17 19<br>
University of Michigan $ 263,329,921 -21.0% 18 15<br>
University of California at Berkeley $ 255,095,124 -10.6% 19 20<br>
University of Chicago $ 248,804,299 -3.2% 20 24</p>
<p>Bear in mind that Webb Institute has fewer than 100 students and gives every one of them free tuition. So what’s the problem with the other cheapskate 29% of their alums that they couldn’t give a little back?!</p>
<p>I love my alma mater plenty, but I really don’t donate all that much, because </p>
<p>a) I’d rather spend my charitable dollars towards other causes;
b) they have enough money it’s not as though they are hurting;
c) my husband and I were full pay for undergrad, I was full pay for grad (funded through my company), so we’ve already given plenty;
d) I’m now going to be spending $50K/year to send my son there, and indeed that’s what we said last time they called for fundraising purposes.</p>
<p>“USNWR didn’t rank the most “loved” schools. SparkEye7’s article merely took USNWR ranking data that had been available months ago and drew a gross, irrelevant conclusion based around it.”</p>
<p>Thanks for the correction! </p>
<p>yea, I was busy last night… should have been more thorough before posting!!</p>
<p>[YALE</a> » Tomorrow | Yale Office of Development](<a href=“For Humanity”>For Humanity)
“July 2010 marked the beginning of the final year of Yale Tomorrow, a five-year, $3.5 billion Campaign to raise funds for a stronger Yale. Alumni, parents, and friends continue to participate with generosity and enthusiasm: as of September 2010, contributions amounted to more than $3.141 billion.”</p>
<p>My list is annual money in the bank. Capital campaigns count anything pledged out up to 20 years or more.
Often they are counted in both reports. What is collected goes annual and the pledges in the campaign report.</p>
<p>Saying that UCSF is Berkeley’s medical school is like saying that UC Davis is Berkeley’s agricultural station. That’s how both got their start -as a part of Berkeley located away from the main campus. And a hundred years ago both statements would be perfectly true. But today each has long since grown into fully separate campuses within the UC system. The administration, faculty, and students of both UCSF and UC Davis would all vigorously deny that they are part of Berkeley, de facto or otherwise.</p>
<p>The point is Med Schools tend to bring in more money than any other area so that when comparing you should either adjust for that one way or the other . Most med money cannot be used for any other area so it’s of no use to the liberal arts, etc.</p>
<p>Coureur, UC Davis definitely has…less so for UCSF, as it still is just a graduate medical school campus. Many joint degrees are offered between Berkeley and UCSF and a lot of faculty share appointments between the two.</p>