Does endowment of a university depend on its location?

[lesdiablesbleus]

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@Alexandre

LDB, can you please provide us with a source? Last I checked, UT-Austin did not have an independent endowment figure, but it is generally esptimated at 40% of the total UT system endowment, which currently stands at $14 billion as of June 30, 2010. 40% of $14 billion is $5.6 billion. Furthermore, your $6 billion figure for Duke is as of February, 2011. Please stick to June 2010 figures. You conveniently used the endowment figures effective June 2010 for all universities except for Duke, for which you used February, 2011 figures.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/rese...lues_Final.pdf[/url][/quote]”>http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/rese...lues_Final.pdf

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[University</a> of Texas at Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“University of Texas at Austin - Wikipedia”>University of Texas at Austin - Wikipedia)
I know that Wikipedia’s not always a reliable source but unless you show me some other data service which actually points out that UT Austin’s endowment is only 40% of the entire UT system, I’ll be inclined to stick with the guy who provided the $7.2 billion figure on the Wikipedia article. I feel like someone would have edited it if it had been as far off as you claim it is.</p>

<p>As far as Duke’s endowment figures, why would I show anything besides the latest data? Why stick with June 2010 figures when Duke has February 2011 figures readily available? Once Michigan and all the other schools have their endowment valuations up to date for the current FY, please feel free to update this list. I will stick to the most current up-to-date data. We can’t assume that all universities had positive returns on their long-term pool of investments when the majority of them all but crashed two years ago.</p>

<p>I don’t see Chicago or Notre Dame surpassing Duke although Penn might.</p>