Last year, Stanford, the topper, received 603 million dollars from private donors. The figures for the next four are: University of Wisconsin at Madison (595 m), Harvard (589 m), UPenn (394 m) and Cornell (353 m). Overall, private donors contributed a staggering 25.6 billion dollars to American colleges and universities in 2005.
These figures are from an article in Inside Higher Ed by Doug Lederman.
What is the story in India? You might be interested in this post I wrote in November.
Your blog is a pretty interesting thing. You seem to collect a lot of India related stuff and it is nicer to read too. I'm now starting to quote some your blog posts.
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Balaji: I am glad you like what you find here. Thanks also for providing a link to your blog.
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