Harvard Beats Stanford, Raising Record $1.16 Billion in a Year

By Janet Lorin. Harvard’s haul, the largest ever in higher education, represents more than the entire endowments of all but about 70 U.S. colleges. Stanford came in No. 2, with $928 million, its third-biggest total, according to a survey by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, which tracks university giving. Read more...