Huan Yu

With the expansion of higher education, running costs keep rising and student enrollment declines in China. The traditional tuition-dependent model of private universities can no longer meet their needs for survival and development, and funding shortage has become a major constraint on their quality improvement and sustainable growth.Top private universities in the United States such as Harvard, Yale and Cornell possess huge endowment funds and world-class professional operation. Taking the three universities as research objects and adopting literature research and online investigation methods, this paper systematically analyzes the structure and characteristics of their fundraising models, and puts forward targeted suggestions for private universities in China. The aim is to ease their funding difficulties and promote the high-quality development of private higher education.

Top private universities in the United States; University fundraising model; Private universities in China

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