For the second year in a row, Stanford University topped the list of university fundraisers, bringing in a total of $832 million dollars, an amount that has been exceeded only once, and that by Stanford a year ago. Harvard came in second in the dollar sweepstakes, raising around $614 million according to the Council for Aid to Education. Overall support to colleges and universities rose over 6% to a staggering $29.8 billion!
Here is how the Top Tier fared:
- Stanford (1)
- Harvard (2)
- Columbia (5)
- Cornell (6)
- Penn (7)
- Yale (8)
- Chicago (12)
We’re talking about some serious money here. These data suggest that there is little if any pushback on the part of donors concerned about the spiraling wealth of these (and other) institutions of higher education.
For more information see the CAE press release.
Filed under: Harvard, Stanford, fundraising
