UC San Diego announced Thursday that it raised $177.5 million in gifts and grants during the 2014-15 academic year, a 20 percent boost over the previous year.
Of the total, 56 percent, or $99.1 million, went to UCSD Health Sciences. The amount does not include a $100 million commitment from Evelyn and Ernest Rady to create an endowment for the Rady School of Management.
In total, 43,000 gifts and grants were received by UCSD during the year.
"I am so grateful to our community of generous and visionary alumni and friends who helped UC San Diego achieve this fundraising milestone," Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said. "These critically needed funds will help us realize our strategic plan goals which include a focus on students, research and public service."
Some of the largest gifts included:
• $5.5 million given anonymously to create an endowed medical school scholarship fund
• $5 million from Denny Sanford for the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center
•$4.6 million from The G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation to support research in the School of Medicine and biological sciences
• $4 million from Joan and Irwin Jacobs to provide endowed funds in support of the School for Global Policy and Strategy
• $2.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the global policy school, pediatrics and physical sciences
• $2.4 million from The Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation for physics and neurosciences. The fundraising announcement came on the first day of fall quarter classes at the La Jolla campus.
According to UCSD, around 5,300 freshmen joined the student body, of which more than 4,600 are living on campus. Another 2,700 transfers also enrolled at the university.
