The Council for Aid to Education issued its annual survey today, reporting that contributions to colleges and universities was down 11.9% (to $27.85 billion), the steepest in the survey's history.

Here are the Top 20 college fundraisers in 2009:

1. Stanford ($640.11 million)
2. Harvard ($601.64 million)
3. Corrnell ($446.75 million)
4. Pennsylvania ($439.77 million)
5. Johns Hopkins ($433.39 million)
6. Columbia ($413.36 million)
7. USC ($368.98 million)
8. Yale University ($358.15 million)
9. UCLA ($351.69 million)
10. Wisconsin ($341.81 million)
11. NYU ($334.79 million)
12. University of Washington ($323.55 million)
13. MIT ($319.07 million)
14. Duke University ($301.65 million)
15. UC-San Francisco ($300.42 million)
16. Minnesota ($272.35 million)
17. North Carolina ($270.11 million)
18. Michigan ($263.33 million)
19. UC-Berkeley ($255.10 million)
20. Chicago ($248.80 million)

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