USC Consistent Top Fundraiser With Harvard and Stanford

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>Phanta,</p>

<p>That’s correct. Princeton, MIT and Berkeley (universities lacking medical schools) never seem to break into the top fundraising ranks. Medical research is important to a lot of people and tugs at the heart strings to give more. Therefore, schools with a large medical research presence will attract a lot of donations.</p>

<p>Take a look at this UC Private Fundraising Report for 2010-11:
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12/e4attach.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12/e4attach.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Page 15 of the report shows 48.59% of all private gifts to UC were dedicated to Health Science & Medicine purposes. Gifts to UCLA for Health Science and Medicine constituted 25.44% of the Health Science giving, while at Berkeley only 4.41% of donations were directed to Health Science purposes. Of the total Health Sciences support, 65% was dedicated to Medicine.</p>

<p>The report also has interesting insight into alumni giving. Berkeley’s private donations from individuals were made up of 72% alumni…compare that to UCLA’s 52% and UCSD’s dismal 7.5%. But that’s a topic for another discussion not on this USC board.</p>