Stanford University’s endowment at $22.4 billion

[texaspg]

http://news.stanford.edu/2016/09/28/stanford-management-company-releases-2016-results/

The university’s endowment payout for fiscal year 2016 was $1.13 billion, equal to 5.1 percent of the beginning-of-year endowment value, and representing approximately 22 percent of the university’s total operating revenue. Budgeted endowment payout for fiscal year 2017 is $1.18 billion.

In FY16, Stanford spent over $450 million of University funds for student financial aid, of which approximately 57 percent was from restricted endowment funds and the remainder from unrestricted University funds. Families living in the U.S. with incomes below $125,000 pay no undergraduate tuition. Over 75 percent of Stanford undergraduates graduate with no debt, and for those that do borrow, median debt in 2015 was $16,417.

[googledrone]

Most colleges including Ivy League schools had their endowment investment go down over the past year. I don’t follow stocks much. Didn’t the stock market go up this year? My Facebook stock and mutual fund did pretty well.

There are dozens of college rankings. Here is one more.

http://time.com/money/4511348/wall-street-journal-college-rankings-stanford/

[bluewater2015]

I’m not sure what the reporting period is for Stanford and other schools, but yes that link does say on average university endowments had a negative return this year. There are also some - Yale I believe is an example - that had positive returns, but withdrew more than the gains and thus still had a net decline in endowment.

IIRC endowment payout and federal government funding are just about equal at Stanford right now.