<p>There were drops in the value of university endowments across the board, but the wealthiest universities are still very well off. It is important to remember that public universities receive hundreds of millions of dollars from their state each year...private universities do not. As such, a public university with an endowment of $1 billion can do more with it than a private university with an endowment of $1 billion.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard University $26.0 billion</li>
<li>Yale University $16.0 billion</li>
<li>Princeton University $12.7 billion</li>
<li>Stanford University $12.0 billion</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology $8.0 billion</li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor $6.0 billion</li>
<li>Columbia University $5.7 billion</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania $5.6 billion</li>
<li>University of Texas-Austin $5.6 billion</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame $5.5 billion</li>
<li>Northwestern University $5.4 billion</li>
<li>University of Chicago $5.0 billion</li>
<li>Duke University $4.9 billion</li>
<li>Cornell University $4.5 billion</li>
<li>Emory University 4.5 billion</li>
<li>Texas A&M University $4.4 billion</li>
<li>Washington University-St Louis $4.2 billion</li>
<li>University of Virginia $4.1 billion</li>
<li>Rice University $3.6 billion</li>
<li>Dartmouth College $3.0 billion</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University $2.8 billion</li>
<li>University of Southern California $2.5 billion</li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley $2.3 billion</li>
<li>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $2.2 billion</li>
<li>Brown University $2.0 billion</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University $1.9 billion</li>
<li>New York University $1.9 billion</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill $1.8 billion</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh $1.7 billion</li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles $1.7 billion</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology $1.5 billion</li>
<li>Indiana University-Bloomington $1.5 billion</li>
<li>Ohio State University-Columbus $1.5 billion</li>
<li>Purdue University-West Lafayette $1.5 billion</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve University $1.4 billion</li>
<li>George Washington University $1.4 billion</li>
<li>Boston College $1.3 billion</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology $1.3 billion</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State University-University Park $1.3 billion</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison $1.2 billion</li>
<li>Lehigh University $1.1 billion</li>
<li>Michigan State University $1.1 billion</li>
<li>Tufts University $1.1 billion</li>
<li>Wake Forest University $1.0 billion</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University $850 million</li>
<li>Georgetown University $800 million</li>
<li>Suracuse University $800 million</li>
<li>Tulane University $800 million</li>
<li>University of Miami $750 million</li>
<li>Brandeis University $700 million</li>
</ol>
<p>Per capita statistics are also interesting, although not as telling because they do not take economies of scale into consideration. A school with 30,000 or 40,000 students can do more with each dollar spent than a school with 3,000 or 4,000 students.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University $1.8 million</li>
<li>Harvard University $1.3 million</li>
<li>Yale University $1.3 million</li>
<li>Stanford University $800,000</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology $770,000</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology $710,000</li>
<li>Rice University $555,000</li>
<li>Dartmouth College $515,000</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame $470,000</li>
<li>Duke University $365,000</li>
<li>University of Chicago $360,000</li>
<li>Emory University $350,000</li>
<li>Washington University-St Louis $340,000</li>
<li>Northwestern University $300,000</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania $280,000</li>
<li>Brown University $240,000</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University $230,000</li>
<li>Cornell University $220,000</li>
<li>Columbia University $215,000</li>
<li>University of Virginia $205,000</li>
<li>Lehigh University $160,000</li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor $150,000</li>
<li>Wake Forest University $150,000</li>
<li>Brandeis University $140,000</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve University $140,000</li>
<li>Tufts University $110,000</li>
<li>University of Texas-Austin $110,000</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University $100,000</li>
<li>Boston College $90,000</li>
<li>Texas A&M University-College Station $90,000</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University $80,000</li>
<li>University of Southern California $75,000</li>
<li>Tulane University $70,000</li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley $65,000</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill $65,000</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology $65,000</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh $60,000</li>
<li>George Washington $55,000</li>
<li>Georgetown University $55,000</li>
<li>University of Miami $50,000</li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles $45,000</li>
<li>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $45,000</li>
<li>Indiana University-Bloomington $40,000</li>
<li>Purdue University-West Lafayette $40,000</li>
<li>New York University $35,000</li>
<li>Michigan State University $30,000</li>
<li>Ohio State University-Columbus $30,000</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State University-University Park $30,000</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison $30,000</li>
</ol>
<p>Even $30,000 per capita is huge folks. Imperial College, one of England's top 5 universities, has an endowment of capita of $25,000. The London School of Economics and the University College of London, two other of England's top 5 universities, have endowments per capita of $15,000 and $10,000 respectively.</p>