How much does endowment matter?

<p>As I am considering Georgetown, I notice that their endowment is 750 million. This is less than 5% of Harvard's endowment and many schools have well over a billion or two. How and where is this difference on campus felt? Does this greatly affect the learning opportunties for a student?</p>

<p>No. Georgetown is good for its political science program. Most endowment goes to graduate schools anyways (Ie Harvard). </p>

<p>However, endowment does matter somewhat as Georgetown is often known for its political science and pre-law field (other programs are overshadowed and sometimes unmentioned).</p>

<p>The size of the endowment is often mentioned in connection with the quality of financial aid.</p>

<p>I sometimes wonder why colleges with endowments of tens of billion still have tuition increases and badger the alumni for donations. Maybe it made sense for Tulane.</p>

<p>Ok dufus, that makes sense. As a student from a family that will be able to fund my education, you would agree that it's not as much of a factor?</p>

<p>The endowment would give a college a greater ability to start new programs or build new building, but considering what Georgetown already looks like, I'm surprised they still have 750 million left over. I would recommend that you not worry about it.</p>

<p>One other angle for endowment. The size of endowment is one of the factors that bump up US News Report Ranking.</p>

<p>Edvest, that might be why Georgetown is so underrated on the US News list. They are at #23 behind schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, and Berkeley.</p>

<p>^What's wrong with Berkeley?</p>

<p>but anyway, its not really fair to compare Georgetown's endowment with Harvard, which is one of the most visible and well known schools in the world.</p>

<p>I don't know if this matters, but the most prestigious schools in the world also have the largest endownments. so schools like harvard, yale, mit, stanford, pton all have the largest endownments.</p>