Eleven private nonprofit institutions raised more money in the 2017 fiscal year than did the public institution that raised the most. All of the institutions on the list except the University of California at San Francisco, which is a special-focus institution, are classified as doctoral institutions with the highest research activity in the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. If multiple campuses were considered together, that classification is for the main campus.
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4-year public institutions
| 1. | U. of Washington, multiple campuses | $553,890,900 |
| 2. | U. of California at Los Angeles | $550,933,540 |
| 3. | U. of Michigan, multiple campuses | $456,132,043 |
| 4. | U. of California at San Francisco | $422,172,285 |
| 5. | U. of California at Berkeley | $404,587,975 |
| 6. | Ohio State U., multiple campuses | $401,850,260 |
| 7. | Indiana U., multiple campuses | $398,259,543 |
| 8. | U. of Minnesota, multiple campuses | $339,394,147 |
| 9. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $325,932,129 |
| 10. | U. of Colorado, multiple campuses | $312,786,332 |
| 11. | U. of Texas at Austin | $304,293,616 |
| 12. | U. of Oklahoma at Norman | $302,983,206 |
| 13. | Texas A&M U. at College Station | $290,458,453 |
| 14. | U. of Virginia | $268,406,839 |
| 15. | U. of Florida | $267,350,482 |
| 16. | U. of Wisconsin at Madison | $258,645,216 |
| 17. | U. of California at San Diego | $240,075,664 |
| 18. | U. of Arizona | $219,928,978 |
| 19. | U. of Nebraska, multiple campuses | $210,687,857 |
| 20. | Michigan State U. | $199,927,880 |
4-year private nonprofit institutions
| 1. | Harvard U. | $1,283,739,766 |
| 2. | Stanford U. | $1,129,329,597 |
| 3. | Cornell U. | $743,502,739 |
| 4. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $672,939,157 |
| 5. | U. of Southern California | $668,332,017 |
| 6. | Johns Hopkins U. | $636,910,731 |
| 7. | U. of Pennsylvania | $626,485,118 |
| 8. | Columbia U. | $603,077,208 |
| 9. | Yale U. | $595,886,406 |
| 10. | Duke U. | $581,050,570 |
| 11. | New York U. | $567,120,862 |
| 12. | U. of Chicago | $483,470,131 |
| 13. | U. of Notre Dame | $451,433,280 |
| 14. | Northwestern U. | $344,298,666 |
| 15. | Princeton U. | $303,393,945 |
| 16. | Washington U. in St. Louis | $281,491,088 |
| 17. | Brown U. | $241,986,818 |
| 18. | California Institute of Technology | $235,881,767 |
| 19. | U. of Miami | $221,705,733 |
| 20. | Emory U. | $218,501,059 |
Note: Data on private donations are based on survey responses from 933 institutions to the Council for Aid to Education’s Voluntary Support of Education survey. The survey tracked gifts that were received, not just promised, during the 2017 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2017, for most institutions. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.
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