ERROR in Calculations

[EndersGame2323]

<p>The USNEWS Rankings are not accurate. On the rankings go down to #14 and click on Northwestern. The listed endowment is $2,388,257,000. This is less than half the real endowment of Northwestern. </p>

<p>The real NU endowment can be found at a variety of locations, including the Northwestern website <a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/about/facts/"&gt;http://www.northwestern.edu/about/facts/&lt;/a>. There, it clearly lists the NU endowment as 5.9 billion dollars (more than twice that listed on USNEWS).</p>

<p>This should be brought to the attention of the appropriate individuals. This error on the part of USNEWS likely caused Northwestern to be wrongly docked points.</p>

[Sam_Lee]

<p>I don’t have a copy and haven’t seen it yet. Is endowment a factor? What category does it affect? I do know NU’s endowment is close to 6 billion now.</p>

[system]

<p>Endowment isn’t a factor anyways.</p>

[EndersGame2323]

<p>Financial Resource Rank. Ya it is.</p>

[45_Percenter]

<p>Endowment is not an element of “Financial Resources”:</p>

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Financial resources (10 percent). Generous per-student spending indicates that a college can offer a wide variety of programs and services. U.S. News measures financial resources by using the average spending per student on instruction, research, student services, and related educational expenditures in the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years. Spending on sports, dorms, and hospitals doesn’t count, only the part of a school’s budget that goes toward educating students.

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<p>Endowment size is not a factor (at least not directly) in the US News ranking.</p>

<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/rank_brief.php[/url]”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/rank_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;