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This list of U.S. and colleges and universities by endowment contains the 56 universities in the United States that have an endowment of at least 1 billion U.S. dollars (at fiscal year-end 2005). A sample of university endowments outside of the U.S. has been included for comparison - See INTERNATIONAL.

Note on the below table: The National Association of College and University Business Officers (representatives of the below institutions) assemble endowment statistics for comparison once a year in January. The last release was January, 2006, and this is considered the official rankings until the January, 2007 numbers are officially released. In the table below we show the ranks and values from the January, 2006 report, as well as "latest" updates on the current endowment value. The latter number does not affect rank, and is for informational purposes only.<ref>http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/FY05NESInstitutionsbyTotalAssets.pdf</ref>

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[edit] List of U.S. endowments over $1 billion

Rank
(FY2005) 		Institution Endowment (2005)
in billions of $US 		Endowment (2006)
in billions of $US
1 Harvard University $25.5 $29.200 <ref name="harvard">Harvard's endowment up to $29.2 billion. Associated Press (2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-19.</ref>
2 Yale University $15.2 $18.000 <ref name="yale">Yale Endowment Earns 22.9% In The Past Year. Yale University (2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-26.</ref>
3 Stanford University $12.2 $15.2 <ref name="stanford">WELL-FUNDED Stanford's endowment purse grows fatter. San Francisco Chronicle (2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-11.</ref>
4 *University of Texas System $11.611 <ref>http://www.utsystem.edu/news/2006/UTIMCO-CEOResigns-09-05-06.htm</ref> $15.500 billion <ref>http://www.utsystem.edu/news/2006/UTIMCO-CEOResigns-09-05-06.htm </ref>
5 Princeton University $11.207 $13.0 <ref>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/27/news/16400.shtml</ref>
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $6.712 $8.400B <ref>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/endowment.html</ref>
7 *University of California $5.222 $9.988B (UofC Endowment and affiliates foundations) <ref>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/annualreport/2006/UC%20Financial%20Report%202006.pdf</ref>
8 Columbia University $5.191 $6.097 <ref>http://finance.columbia.edu/controller/resources/reports-33061-TheTrusteesofColumbiaUniversityintheCityofNewYork.pdf</ref>
9 *Texas A&M University System $4.964
10 University of Michigan $4.931 $5.700 <ref name="umich">U-M endowment at $5.7 billion. Ann Arbor News (2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-08.</ref>
11 Emory University $4.376
12 University of Pennsylvania $4.370 $5.300 <ref>http://http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v53/n09/uc-sotu.html</ref>
13 Washington University in St. Louis $4.268 $4.746 <ref>http://annualreport.wustl.edu/auditor.pdf</ref>
14 Northwestern University $4.215 $4.92 <ref>http://www.northwestern.edu/about/facts/</ref>
15 University of Chicago $4.137 $4.8 <ref name="endowment1">University of Chicago fact sheet. The University of Chicago (2006). Retrieved on 2006-11-11.</ref>
16 Duke University $3.826 $4.5 <ref>http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/11/dumac.html</ref>
17 Cornell University $3.777 $4.3 <ref>http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/endowment.htm</ref>
18 University of Notre Dame $3.650 $4.2 <ref>http://www.nd.edu/~invest/</ref>
19 Rice University $3.611
20 University of Virginia $3.219 $3.523 <ref>http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/Facts/Glance_FinanceEndowment.htm</ref>
21 University of Hawaii System $3.0
22 University of Southern California $2.746
23 Dartmouth College $2.714 $3.040 <ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/home/about/facts.html#endowment</ref>
24 Vanderbilt University $2.628
25 Brown University $1.8 $2.3 <ref>http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2006/10/18/CampusNews/U.s-Endowment.Reaches.2.3.Billion-2374111.shtml?norewrite200610230904&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com</ref>
26 Johns Hopkins University $2.177
27 Ohio State University $2.020B <ref>University endowment hits $2 billion</ref>
28 University of Minnesota $1.969
29 University of Washington $1.73
30 Rockefeller University $1.557
31 New York University $1.548
32 University of Pittsburgh $1.530
33 Case Western Reserve University $1.516
34 UNC Chapel Hill $1.486
35 California Institute of Technology $1.418
36 Grinnell College $1.390
37 University of Rochester $1.370
38 Williams College $1.514
39 Purdue University $1.341
40 Michigan State University $1.325
41 Wellesley College $1.276
42 Boston College $1.270
43 University of Richmond $1.208
44 Penn State University $1.175
45 Swarthmore College $1.164
46 Amherst College $1.155
47 Tufts University $1.153
48 Yeshiva University $1.149
49 *University of Illinois $1.148
50 *University of Wisconsin System $1.125B (reflects UW Foundation only)<ref>http://www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu/web/www.nsf/allpublished/frequently+asked+questions

UW System endownment is approximately 9.5 billion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_System</ref>

51 *Indiana University $1.107
52 University of Delaware $1.077
53 *University of Nebraska $1.042
54 Smith College $1.036
55 Texas Christian University $1.033
56 University of Cincinnati $1.032
57 The George Washington University $1.017
58 Southern Methodist University $1.013

*Denotes the aggregate of a cluster of institutions (university system)


[edit] International

Institution Endowment
University of Cambridge $5.87B U.S.
University of Oxford $5.11B U.S.
Kyoto University $2.20B U.S.
University of Toronto $1.52B U.S.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology $970M U.S.
University of Melbourne $832M U.S.
University of Sydney $815M U.S.
McGill University $684M U.S.
National University of Singapore $620M U.S.

[edit] Largest endowments per student (2004) with some updates (2006)

While total endowment size is a useful measurement of the wealth of a university, it is not necessarily the best means of comparing the financial resources of different universities because it does not take the size of the institution into account. For example, Emory's endowment may be more than 4 times larger than Smith's, but Emory's endowment also has to support more than 4 times as many students. As a result, the two schools have about the same amount of money to spend per student from their endowments. That being said, comparing the size of endowments per student can misrepresent the resources of smaller colleges because large universities can take better advantage of economies of scale and are generally able to get better returns on their investments. Notably, with the exception of the graduate-only medical school University of California, San Francisco, every institution in the top 50 is private.

Rank Institution Endowment per Student
1. Princeton University $1,678,406
2. Yale University $1,567,535
3. Harvard University $1,476,313
4. Grinnell College $893,666
5. Baylor College of Medicine $891,825
6. Pomona College $837,825
7. MIT $823,426
8. Swarthmore College $789,735
9. Williams College $748,146
10. Rice University $723,909
11. Stanford University $714,622
12. Caltech $701,004
13. Amherst College $698,469
14. Wellesley College $557,347
15. Berea College $553,778
16. Dartmouth College $486,734
17. Wabash College $415,412
18. Smith College $361,572
19. Emory University $358,322
20. Bowdoin College $344,786
21. Haverford College $336,788
22. Washington University $327,601
23. University of Notre Dame $317,991
24. Claremont McKenna College $315,208
25. Earlham College $309,135
26. Middlebury College $306,253
27. University of Chicago $293,211
28. Hamilton College $287,572
29. Macalester College $284,891
30. Bryn Mawr College $280,279
31. Harvey Mudd College $277,207
32. Carleton College $274,779
33. Vassar College $271,254
34. Trinity University $269,780
35. University of Richmond $268,827
36. University of California, San Francisco $262,341
37. Lafayette College $255,066
38. Northwestern University $250,785
39. Washington and Lee University $245,384
40. Scripps College $242,171
41. Brown University $239,584
42. Colby College $232,952
43. Duke University $232,650
44. Vanderbilt University $230,054
45. Columbia University $223,404
46. Davidson College $222,963
47. Southwestern University $218,710
48. Oberlin College $218,498
49. Mount Holyoke College $214,832
50. Denison University $214,666

[edit] Institutions by 20 year endowment growth

Rank OrderNameAggregate Arithmetic Growth (2005-1986)Per Annum Exponential Growth (2005-1986) Endowment @ 2005 ($000)Endowment @ 1986 ($000)
1.University of Michigan 1861% 14.88% $4,931,000 $251,517
2.Duke University 955% 11.78% $3,826,000 $362,706
3.University of Virginia 846% 11.23% $3,219,000 $340,387
4.University of Notre Dame 838% 11.19% $3,650,000 $388,965
5.Yale 775% 10.85% $15,225,000 $1,739,460
6.Stanford 712% 10.47% $12,205,000 $1,502,583
7.University of Pennsylvania 709% 10.45% $4,370,000 $540,084
8.University of Southern California 659% 10.13% $2,746,000 $361,784
9.Harvard 642% 10.02% $25,474,000 $3,435,013
10.M.I.T. 591% 9.66% $6,712,000 $971,346
11.Northwestern 494% 8.91% $4,215,000 $709,236
12.Vanderbilt 489% 8.86% $2,628,000 $446,458
13.Emory487% 8.85%$4,376,000 $745,188
14.Princeton 479% 8.78% $11,207,000 $1,934,010
15.Dartmouth 468% 8.69% $2,714,000 $477,774
16.Cornell 461% 8.62% $3,777,000 $673,848
17.University of Chicago 416% 8.20% $4,138,000 $802,500
18.Case Western Reserve 393% 7.98% $1,516,000 $307,250
19.Rice 378% 7.82% $3,611,000 $755,782
20.University of Texas** 359% 7.62% $11,611,000 $2,530,730
21.Texas A&M System 347% 7.49% $4,964,000 $1,110,440
22.Washington University 345% 7.47% $4,268,000 $958,461
23.Johns Hopkins 343% 7.44% $2,177,000 $491,543
24.Columbia 310% 7.05% $5,191,000 $1,266,640

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