<p>The Financial Resources rank of a university is based on how much money that university gives in form of scholraships and aid. It is another ploy used by the USNWR to hurt public universities since they are already subsidized and do not give as much additional money to their students. </p>
<p>Endowment size obviously plays a small part in the Financial Resources rank, since many universities use part of their endowment revenues to fund their scholraship budget, but that is the extent of which endowment is used.</p>