Topping the list of universities receiving the most contributions, as it did in 2016, is Harvard University—it received about $1.3 billion. The only other university to surpass the billion-dollar mark in 2017 was Stanford, which took in about $1.1 billion in donations.
The $43.6 billion in contributions is the highest level reported since the council began its survey in 1957.
The 20 institutions that raised the most funds account for less than 1 percent of the nation's colleges, yet collect 28.1 percent of all gifts in 2017—$12.23 billion.
Here are the 10 universities that received the greatest amount of donations in 2017.