largest Endowments-per student.

College Search & Selection
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<p>Sorry if this has been posted beofre but I thought it was really intresting.</p>

<p>Rank Institution Endowment per Student
1. Princeton University $1,678,406
2. Yale University $1,328,552
3. Harvard University $1,278,283
4. Grinnell College $893,666
5. Pomona College $837,825
6. Swarthmore College $789,735
7. Williams College $748,146
8. Rice University $723,909
9. Stanford University $714,622
10. Caltech $701,004
11. Amherst College $698,469
12. MIT $650,426
13. Wellesley College $557,347
14. Berea College $553,778
15. Dartmouth College $486,734
16. Wabash College $415,412
17. Smith College $361,572
18. Emory University $358,322
19. Bowdoin College $344,786
20. Haverford College $336,788
21. Washington University $327,601
22. University of Notre Dame $317,991
23. Claremont McKenna College $315,208
24. Earlham College $309,135
25. Middlebury College $306,253
26. University of Chicago $293,211
27. Hamilton College $287,572
28. Macalester College $284,891
29. Bryn Mawr College $280,279
30. Harvey Mudd College $277,207
31. Carleton College $274,779
32. Vassar College $271,254
33. Trinity University $269,780
34. University of Richmond $268,827
35. University of California, San Francisco $262,341
36. Lafayette College $255,066
37. Northwestern University $250,785
38. Washington and Lee University $245,384
39. Scripps College $242,171
40. Brown University $239,584
41. Colby College $232,952
42. Duke University $232,650
43. Vanderbilt University $230,054
44. Columbia University $223,404
45. Davidson College $222,963
46. Southwestern University $218,710
47. Oberlin College $218,498
48. Mount Holyoke College $214,832
49. Denison University $214,666
50. Whitman College $206,231 </p>

<p>by school
1 Harvard University $25.474B
2 Yale University $15.225B
3 Stanford University $12.205B
4 *University of Texas System $11.611B
5 Princeton University $11.207B
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $6.712B
7 *University of California $5.222B
8 Columbia University $5.191B
9 *Texas A&M University System $4.964B
10 University of Michigan $4.931B
11 Emory University $4.376B
12 University of Pennsylvania $4.370B
13 Washington University in St. Louis $4.268B
14 Northwestern University $4.215B
15 Cornell University $4.171B[1]
16 University of Chicago $4.138B
17 Duke University $3.826B
18 University of Notre Dame $3.650B
19 Rice University $3.611B
20 University of Virginia $3.219B
21 University of Southern California $2.746B
22 Dartmouth College $2.714B
23 Vanderbilt University $2.628B
24 Johns Hopkins University $2.177B
25 Brown University $2.010B
26 University of Minnesota $1.969B
27 University of Washington $1.73B
28 Ohio State University $1.726B
29 Rockefeller University $1.557B
30 New York University $1.548B
31 University of Pittsburgh $1.530B
32 Case Western Reserve University $1.516B
33 UNC Chapel Hill $1.486B
34 California Institute of Technology $1.418B
35 Grinnell College $1.390B
36 University of Rochester $1.370B
37 Williams College $1.514B
38 Purdue University $1.341B
39 Michigan State University $1.325B
40 Wellesley College $1.276B
41 Boston College $1.270B
42 University of Richmond $1.208B
43 Penn State University $1.175B
44 Swarthmore College $1.164B
45 Amherst College $1.155B
46 Yeshiva University $1.149B
47 *University of Illinois $1.148B
48 *University of Wisconsin System $1.125B
49 *Indiana University $1.107B
50 University of Delaware $1.077B
51 *University of Nebraska $1.042B
52 Tufts University $1.040B
53 Smith College $1.036B
54 Texas Christian University $1.033B
55 University of Cincinnati $1.032B
56 Baylor College of Medicine $1.008B</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>its intresting to see some rather unknowns on the list such as,rockefeller u and yeshiva</p>

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<p>Yeshiva is a top-50 university that has a very strong med school and law school. It is hardly an unknown.</p>

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<p>Rockefeller is hardly unknown. It is a science powerhouse, one of the premier research institutes in the world, but there are no undergraduates. If you end up in grad school in molecular biology there are few better places.</p>

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<p>what does the endowment mean?</p>

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<p>Invested money. The key is "invested" which means that the institution keeps the money there without spending much of it (and that's why you still have to pay tuition).</p>

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<p>I see some errors there. The Wisconsin number is for the UW Foundation which is only for the Madison campus. The UW System has another endowment that is for all campuses although 90% is designated for Madison.</p>

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<p>I would strongly suspect that it would be a school like Rockefeller at the top of the "endowment per student" listing, simply because Rockefeller has so few students. According to its website, Rockefeller has 200 students. Divide that into the $1.557 billion endowment listed above, and you get about $7.8 million per student, which clearly dwarfs any of the other schools mentioned. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.rockefeller.edu/about.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.rockefeller.edu/about.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>With BU in last! Yay! :P</p>

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<p>Rockefeller is really a research institute, with a few students, rather than a conventional university, that also does a lot of research. Misleading to include it on the list. Too different.</p>

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<p>Well, the Baylor College of Medicine (not Baylor University, but BCM) and UCSF are pretty specialized, yet they are on the list.</p>