[Mick]

[quote author=Treebound link=topic=14656.msg157433#msg157433 date=1456726264]
Why UCB undergrads have not given more to their alma mater is just sad and concerning.  ...  Too many bare alums from this area believe that state funded education is their birth right.  That model doesn't hold anymore at any level.     

Let's not get carried away and pretend this is somehow a particular problem of Berkley and their alums, or the UC system.

These things vary a lot year by year, as they are heavily dependent on a few super-donations (like Mr. Knight's), but in 2015, among public universities, UCB was #5 in the nation in private fund raising*, #20 overall.
The top publics:
1. UCSF **
2. UCLA
3. UW
4. Michigan
5. Berkeley

The amount raised is dwarfed by Stanford and Harvard, and of course ucb is a far larger enterprise so their per capita is far lower, but it's not as if they simply don't raise private money.

This comes from a report by the Council for Aid to Education.
http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/VSE_20...elease.pdf

*Alumni contributions are a little under 30% of the pie they are talking about in this report, and individual giving ony about 50%. How the pie breaks down for UCB versus the others isn't clear.

** UCSF says that only 3% of their revenue comes from the state. They are a special case as they are only a grad school - mostly a med school. Thus their income from grants is a particularly high fraction and they don't have vast teaching costs. Grouping them in with UCLA, UW, Michigan, and UCB thus seems odd, though it does point out another issue. Among the schools listed here, UCB is unique in not having a med school, which tends to drive a lot of charitable giving.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/01/401486...ising-2015
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Here's the chart from 2014. 

Top Fund-Raisers in 2014

Institution Raised in 2014

1. Harvard U. $1.16 billion
2. Stanford U. $929 million
3. U. of Southern California $732 million
4. Northwestern U. $616 million
5. Johns Hopkins U. $615 million
6. Cornell U. $546 million
7. U. of Texas at Austin $529 million
8. U. of Pennsylvania $484 million
9. U. of Washington $478 million
10. Columbia U. $470 million
11. New York U. $456 million
12. U. of California at San Francisco $445 million
13. Duke U. $437 million
14. U. of Michigan $433 million
15. Yale U. $430.31 million
16. U. of California at Los Angeles $430.28 million
17. U. of Chicago $405 million
18. U of California at Berkeley $390 million
19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology $375 million
20. Indiana U. $341 million

Cal was #18 in the country, ahead of MIT, behind UofC and UCLA, in shouting distance of Yale.  Not bad company.

[Mick]

[quote author=Treebound link=topic=14656.msg157433#msg157433 date=1456726264]
Why UCB undergrads have not given more to their alma mater is just sad and concerning.  ...  Too many bare alums from this area believe that state funded education is their birth right.  That model doesn't hold anymore at any level.     

Let's not get carried away and pretend this is somehow a particular problem of Berkley and their alums, or the UC system.

These things vary a lot year by year, as they are heavily dependent on a few super-donations (like Mr. Knight's), but in 2015, among public universities, UCB was #5 in the nation in private fund raising*, #20 overall.
The top publics:
1. UCSF **
2. UCLA
3. UW
4. Michigan
5. Berkeley

The amount raised is dwarfed by Stanford and Harvard, and of course ucb is a far larger enterprise so their per capita is far lower, but it's not as if they simply don't raise private money.

This comes from a report by the Council for Aid to Education.
http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/VSE_20...elease.pdf

*Alumni contributions are a little under 30% of the pie they are talking about in this report, and individual giving ony about 50%. How the pie breaks down for UCB versus the others isn't clear.

** UCSF says that only 3% of their revenue comes from the state. They are a special case as they are only a grad school - mostly a med school. Thus their income from grants is a particularly high fraction and they don't have vast teaching costs. Grouping them in with UCLA, UW, Michigan, and UCB thus seems odd, though it does point out another issue. Among the schools listed here, UCB is unique in not having a med school, which tends to drive a lot of charitable giving.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/01/401486...ising-2015
[/quote]

Here's the chart from 2014. 

Top Fund-Raisers in 2014

Institution Raised in 2014

1. Harvard U. $1.16 billion
2. Stanford U. $929 million
3. U. of Southern California $732 million
4. Northwestern U. $616 million
5. Johns Hopkins U. $615 million
6. Cornell U. $546 million
7. U. of Texas at Austin $529 million
8. U. of Pennsylvania $484 million
9. U. of Washington $478 million
10. Columbia U. $470 million
11. New York U. $456 million
12. U. of California at San Francisco $445 million
13. Duke U. $437 million
14. U. of Michigan $433 million
15. Yale U. $430.31 million
16. U. of California at Los Angeles $430.28 million
17. U. of Chicago $405 million
18. U of California at Berkeley $390 million
19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology $375 million
20. Indiana U. $341 million

Cal was #18 in the country, ahead of MIT, behind UofC and UCLA, in shouting distance of Yale.  Not bad company.