Giving to U.S. colleges and universities rose by 3.4 percent last year, according to a new study by the council for Aid to Education. All told, institutions raked in about $24 billion. Here are the top 10 universities ranked according to dollars raised (numbers rounded to the nearest million):

1. Harvard: $540 million
2. Stanford: $524 million
3. Cornell: $386 million
4. Penn: $333 million
5. Southern Cal: $322 million
6. Johns Hopkins: $312 million
7. Columbia: $291 million
8. MIT: $290 million
9. Yale: $265 million
10. UCLA: $262 million

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