Does endowment of a university depend on its location?

[lesdiablesbleus]

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@bluedog

Not that it’s that significant of a difference. By the way, Duke’s endowment is NOT $6.0 billion in 2011 either. That is the figure for Duke’s long-term pool of investments. It’s not the same thing. It includes the endowment, plus pension funds, funding for certain campus organizations like the student newspaper, medical center reserves, etc. It would be nice if they had made that split for us, but they didn’t. Duke’s endowment at the beginning of 2011 is still shy of $6.0 billion, but hasn’t been released.

Yeah, I noticed that in the Chronicle but do all universities report their endowments separate from their long term pool of investments? Is Harvard’s endowment $27.6 billion or is that is that the valuation of its entire pool of investments? If we’re going to compare apples to apples, that’s important information to know.</p>

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@bclintonk

Because it’s intellectually dishonest and you know it. You’ve got to compare apples to apples. Honestly, blue devil, you do more to discredit your own university than anyone I’ve ever come across on CC. Do you hate Duke?

Instead of belittling yourself by arguing with a 21 year old like me, why don’t you instead post updated endowment data for other universities? I would be shocked if Duke was the only school that has up-to-date February 2011 endowment figures in the country.</p>

<p>There’s no point in even talking about endowment figures and using them as a criterion to compare universities if the data isn’t completely up to date. Who cares if Notre Dame had a higher endowment than Duke or Michigan had a higher endowment than UT Austin 6 months ago if that’s no longer the case?</p>

<p>This isn’t a discussion having without the most current information.</p>