UW-Madison may have routed Indiana University 83-20 during the football season, but IU outraised UW-Madison by over $30 million in private donations during 2010, according to the Voluntary Support of Education Survey.
The survey, released Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education, ranked UW-Madison 12th in the country in private donations last year. However, Indiana finished two spots ahead of UW-Madison and first among Big Ten schools.
Overall, 13 of the top 20 schools overall saw a drop in private donation money from 2009 to 2010, including UW-Madison. Private donors gave $311.85 million to the university in 2010, dropping from the $341.81 million raised in 2009.
Both of those totals are far below the university's 2005 total of $595.22 million, when UW-Madison ranked second in the country behind only Stanford University. Stanford ranked first in the nation again in 2010, raising $598.89 million.
