Opinion letter to the editor

Alumnus on the sources of MIT’s donations

By Brian Gilligan Oct. 3, 2019

MIT has 137,765 living alumni, but only 33 percent of them donate to MIT. If every alumnus donated $4,370 per year, equivalent to 4.9 percent of the mean starting salary for graduates with an SB degree, MIT would not need to take large contributions from the likes of Epstein, Schwarzman, and Koch.