Dive Brief:
- Thomas Aquinas College in California tops a U.S. News & World Report list of schools with the highest percentage of alumni donors, with 63.7% of alumni donating in the last two academic years.
- That's an increase of about 5 percentage points from the academic year before that.
- Overall, the percentage of alumni donors and the amount they give have declined nationally [PDF link].
Dive Insight:
Some liberal arts institutions are bucking the trend of declining giving: Nine liberal arts schools are among those with the highest proportion of alumni donors. In fact, the only large university in the top 10 is Princeton.
