washington alumni of indianorigin have given more than 12 billion to american institutions of higher education since 2000 a new survey has revealedthe most prevalent recipient fields of donations were business 235 per cent and medicine 206 per cent closely followed by south asia studies 176 per cent and engineering and computer sciences 133 per cent according to a monitor of universitygiving compiled by indiaspora an organization that seeks to transform the success of indian americans into meaningful impact in india and on the global stageread alsoindianamericans donate 1 billion a year surveywashington indianamericans who are among the ethnic groups with highest per capita income donate about 1 billion per year far less than their potential of 3 billion philanthropy in the us according to the results of a firstofitskind survey the survey which assessed the giving habits ofeven the 12 billion recorded by indiaspora may be an underreported figure because the database compiled by the organization counted donations of only 1 million and above and did not take into said account anonymous donations said mr rangaswami a silicon valley entrepreneur and founder of indiasporain all indiasporas monitor of university giving a living database to keep abreast of indian american philanthropic donations to higher education counted fifty individuals making 68 donations of one million dollars or more amounting to over 12 billion of these donors nearly half are repeat donors indicating how passionately indian americans feel towards giving back to american institutions of higher education in many but not all cases their alma maters the organisation saidindian americans are acutely aware of the vital role played by american institutions of higher education in their professional success stories and many of us consider it a moral obligation to give back and pay it forward for the next generation of americans rangaswami told toi on monday while announcing the formation of the live databaseindianamericans are by far the besteducated and highestearning ethnic group in the us with a median family income of more than 100000 pa compared to a national figure of around 60000 about 32 per cent of indianamericans have bachelors degrees compared to 18 per cent for americans and 38 per cent of indian americans have advanced degrees compared to 10 per cent of americans with advanced degreesamong the biggest donors to us institutions are the florida couple pallavi and kiran patel who have contributed tens of millions of dollars to the university of southern florida and nova southeastern university a cardiologist and businessman kiran patels contributions include 50 million in a cash donation to the medical school at nsu and 150 million in real estate accounting for what is believed to be the single largest philanthropic contribution by a pio in the uswhile seven of the 68 donors sumir chadha desh deshpande kris gopalkrishnan raj gupta deepak raj anand rajaraman and sanjay swani recorded in the indiaspora database are members of the organization the list also includes indiaresiding alumni of us institutions such