<p>Balto - you raise a good point, and I briefly addressed this in the other UChicago thread on fundraising. I unfortunately for got to raise it here.</p>
<p>Certainly, fundraising efforts and capital campaigns lead to fluctuations on this fundraising list. For example, I believe Minnesota and NYU are in the midst of siginificant capital campaigns, which explain their strong showing for the past couple of years.</p>
<p>Despite this, I imagine that some of the schools - no matter the capital campaigns launched by other schools, are always on the list of the top 15 or so top fundraising schools. Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, MIT, etc. have probably all made the top 15 or so every year, despite the capital campaigns launched by other schools.</p>
<p>As I imagine this is the case, UChicago should be there too. Fundraising efforts and incoming revenue streams form the lifeblood of major research on a campus - especially for programs in medicine and science, which are much more costly than setting up elite think tanks in the humanities. </p>
<p>Given this, it seems as if UChicago needs to improve in securing funds from non-alumni groups such as corporations, foundations, and the like.</p>