Top Fundraising Colleges and Universities,
in Total Amount Raised, 2004

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
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. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) 385,936,235
4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.) 332,829,949
5. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.) 322,090,595
6. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) 311,573,165
7. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.) 290,618,180
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) 289,838,445
9. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 264,771,841
10. Univ. of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) 262,148,586
11. Duke University (Durham, N.C.) 254,999,006
12. Univ. of Texas at Austin (Austin, Tex.) 252,175,348
13. Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.) 248,458,068
14. University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.) 245,682,841
15. New York University (New York, N.Y.) 214,863,578
16. Univ of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.) 213,996,780
17. Univ. of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 206,165,782
18. Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) 203,273,515
19. University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.) 195,762,442
20. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 186,934,586
Source: Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of RAND. Web: www.cae.org .

College and University Endowments, 2005 Higher Education Major Universities Founded Before 1900
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