The U ranks 9th out of the twelve Big 10 schools in overall alumni donations. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois are ranked lower.
Alumni Giving Rate 2009
Princeton University 60%
University of Southern California 43%
Yale University 38%
Duke University 38%
Harvard University 37%
Brown University 37%
University of Pennsylvania 37%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 36%
Emory University 36%
California Institute of Technology 35%
Stanford University 34%
Columbia University In The City of New York 34%
Rice University 33%
Johns Hopkins University 33%
University of Chicago 32%
Cornell University 31%
Washington University In St Louis 31%
Northwestern University 31%
Brandeis University 30%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 28%
Vanderbilt University 24%
University of Virginia-Main Campus 22%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 22%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 22%
University of Nebraska at Lincoln 22%
Purdue University-Main Campus 21%
Case Western Reserve University 20%
Tulane University of Louisiana 19%
Carnegie Mellon University 18%
University of Rochester 18%
University of Missouri-Columbia 18%
University of California-Santa Barbara 17%
Texas A & M University 17%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State Univ 17%
University of Florida 16%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 16%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 16%
Syracuse University 16%
Indiana University-Bloomington 16%
Iowa State University 16%
The University of Texas at Austin 15%
Michigan State University 15%
Ohio State University-Main Campus 15%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 14%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 14%
University of California-Berkeley 13%
University of California-Los Angeles 13%
University of Georgia 13%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 13%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 13%
University of Oregon 13%
Suny at Stony Brook 12%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 12%
University of Iowa 12%
North Carolina State University 11%
University of Maryland-College Park 10%
University of California-Davis 10%
New York University 9%
University of California-Irvine 9%
University at Buffalo -- SUNY 9%
University of Colorado at Boulder 9%
University of California-San Diego 6%
University of Arizona 5%
Source: US News & World Report, America's Best Graduate Schools, 2011 Edition