For the fourth year in a row, USC raised the third highest amount after Harvard and Stanford:
"Institutions that Raised the Most (and Amount Raised), 2016
- Harvard University ($1.19 billion)
- Stanford University ($951.15 million)
- University of Southern California ($666.64 million)
- Johns Hopkins University ($657.29 million)
- University of California-San Francisco ($595.94 million)
- Cornell University ($588.26 million)
- Columbia University ($584.81 million)
- University of Pennsylvania ($542.85 million)
- University of Washington ($541.44 million)
- Yale University ($519.15 million)
- Duke University ($506.44 million)
- University of California-Los Angeles ($498.80 million)
- New York University ($461.15 million)
- University of Chicago ($443.30 million)
- University of Michigan ($433.78 million)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($419.75 million)"
Source - Council for Aid to Education