Microsoft's gift is only the third largest on this list. The school leads the nation in the amount of research funding it receives from private industry, with 20 percent, according to the MIT News Office.
Harvard receives proportionally less research funding from corporate sponsors than MIT does, according to Harvard officials.
"We don't have anything comparable to the MIT alliance [I-Campus]," says Norma M. Allewell, associate vice president for sponsored programs and technology transfer at Harvard's Office of Sponsored Research.