Colleges and universities raise $30.30 billion in 2011

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>At least we took in more than Princeton and Northwestern! LOL!</p>

<p>Princeton: $236,172,907
Northwestern: $228,622,579</p>

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<p>I hope the 1) increased size of the college and 2) the rising profile of the University help raise that figure over time.</p>

<p>I also wonder why with such top professional schools like the Law School and Business School and the large number of billionaire alums (#6 according to Forbes) UChicago doesn’t take in more, although as others have noted foundations and corporate giving and non-alum giving also play a huge part in overall fundraising.</p>

<p>The endowment was #10 in 2010 and #12 in 2011, I believe. So in some ways we do a bit better in that respect. Interestingly, they say that the reason Harvard has such a large endowment has less to do with fundraising and more to do with some very aggressive investment policies over the years. (The same type of thing that helped cause the financial crisis, which is why Harvard took a huge hit during the financial crisis, above and beyond what everyone else was experiencing.)</p>