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Colleges Raising the Most Money

We're not talking about bake sales here. These schools acquired the most money through donations, including those from corporations, foundations, alumni, and individuals.

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• Columbia University (New York, NY): $377,276,204
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): $406,228,837
• Duke University (Durham, NC): $332,034,301
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): $594,941,000
• Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN): $247,520,018
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): $377,336,025
• New York University (New York, NY): $279,918,813
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): $253,401,792
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA): $911,163,132
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): $319,580,552
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA): $245,966,241
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): $237,117,399
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI): $251,476,551
• University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN): $266,991,894
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC): $236,579,182
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): $409,494,598
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA): $405,745,421
• University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA): $316,251,912
• University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI): $325,938,048
• Yale University (New Haven, CT): $433,461,932

Source: 2006 Voluntary Support of Education Survey, Council for Aid to Education. Reprinted with permission.