<p>Most will go to build the endowment and buildings. </p>
<p>Rank College or University Amount raised
1. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) $540,333,491
2. Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) 524,213,993
3. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI) 457,000,000+
4. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) 385,936,235
5. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.) 332,829,949
6. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.) 22,090,595
7. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) 311,573,165
8. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.) 290,618,180
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) 289,838,445
10. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 264,771,841</p>