<p>Is there anywhere that reports endowment per student for colleges? Ideally a table or list is what I am looking for . US N shows endowment of the whole school, but a simple division by number of UG students might not be correct since there might be other expenditures other than UG students that number goes to.</p>
<p>Here are some links:</p>
<p>[List</a> of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment]List”>List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[thread=776134]This one is old though[/thread]</p>
<p>from IPEDS 2008-2009 end-of-year
endowment per FTE
includes undergrad, grad, and professional</p>
<p>1918630 Princeton University
1393157 Yale University
1038839 Harvard University
871679 Pomona College
869683 Stanford University
784628 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
779203 Amherst College
767284 Swarthmore College
686568 California Institute of Technology
656650 Grinnell College
649279 Williams College
618402 Rice University
512862 Wellesley College
502597 Dartmouth College
441362 University of Notre Dame
403744 Bowdoin College
403175 Washington University in St Louis
399439 Washington and Lee University
387760 University of Chicago
355764 University of Richmond
353083 Smith College
331161 Claremont McKenna College
314743 Bryn Mawr College
302054 Emory University
301874 Wabash College
293402 Hamilton College
274588 Vassar College
273639 Macalester College
272269 Agnes Scott College
266727 Duke University
265559 Carleton College
264426 Haverford College
262406 Harvey Mudd College
258252 Columbia University in the City of New York
255659 Brown University
252798 Vanderbilt University
245655 Northwestern University
244690 Denison University
238963 Middlebury College
234588 Reed College
228815 Lafayette College
226722 Colby College
224727 Oberlin College
223899 Scripps College
218597 Earlham College
208081 Whitman College
207921 Mount Holyoke College
206861 Davidson College
200120 Colgate University
190072 University of Pennsylvania
180475 Southwestern University
173476 DePauw University
165311 Colorado College
161112 College of the Holy Cross
152270 Case Western Reserve University
151891 Wesleyan University
151352 Sewanee-The University of the South
150031 Virginia Military Institute
148585 Cornell University
148173 Furman University
147468 Occidental College
145086 University of Virginia-Main Campus
141538 Yeshiva University
140318 Union College
138847 Trinity College
138215 Lehigh University
135387 University of Rochester
135037 Centre College
134224 Rhodes College
129093 Wake Forest University
128894 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
125851 The College of Wooster
125734 Tufts University
118884 Mills College
116160 Hanover College
113540 Spelman College
112050 Boston College
109770 Lawrence University
109529 Bucknell University
108399 Sweet Briar College
104817 Bates College
104237 Southern Methodist University
100616 Johns Hopkins University
99633 Hendrix College
98851 Franklin and Marshall College
97910 Dickinson College
93538 Brandeis University
93173 Skidmore College
90486 Hollins University
90336 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
88640 Kalamazoo College
86253 University of Southern California
85212 Wheaton College
83763 Wofford College
83688 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
83442 St Lawrence University
83135 Kenyon College
82365 St. Olaf College
82298 Austin College
81662 Goucher College
80697 Randolph-Macon College
80553 Wheaton College
80390 Tulane University of Louisiana
80353 Connecticut College
78913 Pitzer College
77033 Willamette University
75088 Illinois Wesleyan University
74880 Gettysburg College
74701 Beloit College
74506 Albion College
73887 University of Puget Sound
73007 Carnegie Mellon University
72289 Barnard College
71474 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
71086 Ohio Wesleyan University
70096 Pepperdine University
69217 Hobart William Smith Colleges
65899 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
65866 Drew University
61837 College of William and Mary
61706 George Washington University
61384 Millsaps College
61276 Clark University
60284 Allegheny College
59274 Ursinus College
57853 Georgetown University
56224 Saint Johns University
55857 Baylor University
55586 Saint Louis University-Main Campus
52625 The University of Texas at Austin
52568 New York University
52404 Presbyterian College
47176 Birmingham Southern College
46959 Wells College
44904 University of Delaware
43977 University of Wisconsin-Madison
42663 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
41232 Muhlenberg College
41107 Knox College
39347 Juniata College
39201 University of Washington-Seattle Campus
37234 Hope College
35709 Sarah Lawrence College
35122 Purdue University-Main Campus
35102 University of Miami
33729 Gustavus Adolphus College
32429 Syracuse University
31272 New College of Florida
29872 Boston University
29279 Stevens Institute of Technology
29112 Michigan State University
28940 University of Iowa
28376 Ohio State University-Main Campus
26379 Thomas Aquinas College
26338 Marquette University
26302 American University
25532 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
25095 University of California-Los Angeles
24486 University of Denver
23661 Fordham University
22205 University of California-Berkeley
19129 Bennington College
18601 University of Florida
17972 Miami University-Oxford
17477 Iowa State University
17421 Brigham Young University
17314 University of Missouri-Columbia
17187 The University of Tennessee
16500 Indiana University-Bloomington
16124 College of Saint Benedict
15723 Auburn University Main Campus
15523 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
14577 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
14460 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
12380 St. Mary’s College of Maryland
11902 Rutgers University-New Brunswick
10848 University of Connecticut
10837 Union College
10461 University of California-San Diego
10310 University of Maryland-College Park
7239 Texas A & M University
6509 Clemson University
5435 University of California-Irvine
5004 University of California-Davis
4280 University of California-Santa Barbara
3973 SUNY at Binghamton
3650 University of California-Riverside
2541 University of California-Santa Cruz
1577 University of Georgia</p>
<p>Endowment per capita on its own is not very revealing. It is important to take size and affiliation (private or public) into consideration. The larger the school, the more it benefits from economies of scale. Public universities do not rely as much on endowment as private universities as they receive substantial funding from the state.</p>
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Really? Elsewhere you noted that publics do not rely on state funding to any significant degree and are thus unaffected by economic crises in their states.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure at this point, we might as well consider Clemson a private university since we barely get any funding from the state of South Carolina. (probably a similar % as Michigan)</p>
<p>It’s interesting that only 4 Ivies (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth) are among the top 20.</p>
<p>Interesting that Georgetown’s is a pawltry 57,000/student, yet it looks down its long nose at Boston College, which has 112,000/student…</p>
<p>How does a college of such lowly eps pretend to such lofty ranking?</p>
<p>^^ warblersrule,</p>
<p>The statements you cite in post #5 are in no way contradictory. Take Michigan as an example. At a standard 5% payout rate, its roughly $6 billion endowment would produce about $300 million per year. But in addition to that endowment payout, Michigan now receives just slightly over $300 million/year from the state; so long as that figure holds steady, it’s the cash-flow equivalent of having another $6 billion in its endowment, or twice the reported endowment-per-student figure (which you’ll note is quite high for a public university). </p>
<p>These figures are not chump change; they represent important pieces of the University’s general fund budget. But they pale in comparison to the $850 million produced annually by student tuition and fees; or the $1 billion Michigan reaped in research grants last year; or the $2 billion in annual revenue its health and hospitals system produced. Heck, even the Athletic Department produces nearly $100 million in revenue annually, enough to pay for all intercollegiate athletic competition and facilities and still have some to spare.</p>
<p>Now not every public university has as diverse a revenue base; in fact, few do. Many are far more dependent on state appropriations. But Michigan is in the fortunate position that if its state appropriation gets whacked by, say, 10%, that represents a hit of just a little over 1/2 of 1% to the University’s overall budget—enough that adjustments need to be made, to be sure, but hardly the “sky is falling” scenario that you see at some publics where state appropriations may represent 25% or even 50% of total revenues.</p>
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Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. :)</p>
<p>Ours continues to improve.</p>
<p>The Cornell endowment per FTE might be an underestimate because a substantial proportion of the students are partially supported by state funding through the statutory colleges of Agriculture, Vet Medicine, Industrial Relations, and Human Ecology.</p>
<p>Notre Dame and Holy Cross are the top 2 among Catholic schools. Nd and HC have enjoyed some of the highest alumni giving rates with Holy Cross at about-54%.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, standard endowment figures can be misleading, because they include a school’s assets, but not its liabilities (debts). Subtract the debt from the endowment to get the “net endowment”. The “net endowment” per student is a better measure of a school’s wealth. </p>
<p>Some schools have borrowed much more aggressively than others in recent years. Such schools may superficially appear to have similar endowments to their peers, but the “net endowment” – after accounting for the debt – would tell a different story. The fact that schools have similar levels of assets doesn’t necessarily mean that they have similar levels of liabilities.</p>
<p>For example, the figures in the table above show that Bryn Mawr’s “endowment per student” is only slightly higher (about 19%) than Haverford’s. But Bryn Mawr is considered to have relatively low debt for a LAC of its size, while Haverford is considered to have relatively high debt. So in terms of net wealth, the difference between these two schools is significantly larger than the numbers above suggest.</p>
<p>^ exactly. Harvard’s endowment might be 20+ billion, but a significant number is tied into several investment assets. The endowment of a school can fluctuate as high as 20% in one year if their investments had a good return. nevertheless a lot of the money in private universities are not accessible to students. Even public universities are significantly better in that regard that they get some funding from the government and are unlikely to attempt more risk prone investment.</p>
<p>A lot of top universities in the US took the “Yale model” as the way of improving their endowment and for this reason have little money to spare for their students.</p>
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<p>Another level of complexity is that some schools depend a lot more heavily on endowment for their operating expenses than others.</p>
<p>This is how IPEDS defines endowment. Not sure what it means…</p>
<p>Endowment assets are gross investments of endowment funds, term endowment funds, and funds functioning as endowment for the institution and any of its foundations and other affiliated organizations. Endowment funds are funds whose principal is nonexpendable (true endowment) and that are intended to be invested to provide earnings for institutional use. Term endowment funds are funds which the donor has stipulated that the principal may be expended after a stated period or on the occurrence of a certain event. Funds functioning as endowment (quasi-endowment funds) are established by the governing board to function like an endowment fund but which may be totally expended at any time at the discretion of the governing board. These funds represent nonmandatory transfers from the current fund rather than a direct addition to the endowment fund, as occurs for the true endowment categories.</p>
<p>sam, do you know about how much NU relies on endowment, either for operating costs or special grants? I saw that Alexandre pointed out that public universities do not rely on endowment as much. Does NU get any funds from the gov’t , and if so, are they ever used for UG students, or are they for research grants?</p>