As for college....well....Catholics along with most Christian denominations are failing to properly educate their children. Honestly, isn't a denomination's **most** important mission field that of their own children first? I would think so. Educating the children in the Faith of their Fathers should be the very highest priority for the use of any donation.
As for my own experience with Catholic university, it was disappointing. It was more about the faith of Marxist Liberation Theology than it was about reading and studying the works of the Church fathers and philosophers.
That’s the mistake I made (with kid)—went for the selectivity and not for the conservatism. This was in my pre-FR days.
Niece and her husband making the same mistake with their kids: going for Catholic colleges but for those low acceptance percentages. Should be the other way around: political and religious conservatism first, selectivity second.
Senior at Catholic high school told me she and her friends have never even heard of Franciscan University (76% acceptance, and that was why).