A number of posters on this board seem to track Ross. I’ve wondered for some time how large the endowment is. This post is a bit stale (4/2/2016): http://poetsandquants.com/2016/04/04/businessschoolendowments/3/ Michigan is comfortably within the top 10. The cutoff here appears to be June of 2015. If so, it probably doesn’t account for the Zell gift of $60MM or other money, so one would guess that the ranking is now in the 9th position and in excess of one half billion. At that level, probably 25% of the operating budget is covered, so it would be nice to see that number, at some juncture, doubled.
School Endowment
Harvard $3,323,000,000
Stanford $1,392,000,000
UPenn (Wharton) $1,289,000,000
Northwestern (Kellogg) $866,000,000
MIT (Sloan) $812,858,178
Yale (SOM) $743,000,000
Chicago (Booth) * $734,000,000
Columbia $680,000,000
Virginia (Darden) $436,000,000
Michigan (Ross) $435,000,000 <== not inclusive of Zell $60MM??? Plus last years fund raising, probably $500MM today.
Babson College $348,628,929
NYU (Stern) $347,000,000
Dartmouth (Tuck) $332,000,000
Washington (Olin) $326,000,000
USC (Marshall) $309,000,000
UC-Berkeley (Haas) $307,200,000
Vanderbilt (Owen) $299,327,811
Texas-Austin (McCombs) $272,900,000
Duke (Fuqua) $266,800,000
Bentley $257,000,000
UCLA (Anderson) $216,000,000
SMU (Cox) $215,000,000
Cornell (Johnson) $209,000,000
Wisconsin-Madison $200,127,487