List of US colleges and universities by endowment
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The following are three lists of U.S. institutions of higher education by endowment:
Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment are also available.
This section may contain inaccurate data that does necessarily match with NACUBO source data
billions (thousand of millions
) are used.
Note that there are some inconsistencies in calculating the 2006 figures in the table below; figures for some schools (e.g., Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Williams, Davidson) are based on referenced, overall endowment estimates from early 2007; figures for other schools are based on referenced, overall endowment reports from 2006; furthermore, some figures are calculated with enrollment numbers that include students studying off campus (e.g., Middlebury), while other calculations exclude off-campus students (e.g., Bowdoin); finally, although most calculations are based on enrollments for 2006-2007, some derive from the 2005-2006 academic year (e.g., Bowdoin); eliminating these inconsistencies is difficult due to variations in schools' reporting practices.
- Largest endowmentsFinancial endowmentA financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution. The total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust....
- Largest endowments per student
- Certain universities by endowment growth between 1986 and 2007
Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment are also available.
This section may contain inaccurate data that does necessarily match with NACUBO source data
Endowments >$1 billion
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) are used.
| Institution | Endowment (2005) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2006) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2007) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2008) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2009) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2010) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
Endowment (2011) billion 1000000000 (number) 1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109.... USD |
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| Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009... |
$1.155 | $1.337 | $1.662 | $1.705 | $1.306 | $1.386 | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care... |
$1.008 | $1.059 | $1.278 | $1.091 | $0.731 | $0.792 | |
| Baylor University Baylor University Baylor University is a private, Christian university located in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1845, Baylor is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.-History:... |
$1.008 | $0.870 | $1.278 | $1.060 | $0.880 | $0.872 | |
| Berea College Berea College Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students... |
$0.862 | $0.949 | $1.102 | $1.023 | $0.791 | $0.847 | |
| Boston College Boston College Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early... |
$1.270 | $1.448 | $1.670 | $1.631 | $1.341 | $1.480 | |
| Boston University Boston University Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers... |
$0.777 | $0.916 | $1.101 | $1.145 | $0.892 | $0.992 | $1.194 |
| Brown University Brown University Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,... |
$1.844 | $2.167 | $2.781 | $2.747 | $2.017 | $2.155 | |
| California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... |
$1.418 | $1.581 | $1.860 | $1.892 | $1.398 | $1.545 | |
| Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... |
$1.516 | $1.599 | $1.841 | $1.766 | $1.402 | $1.462 | |
| Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... |
$5.191 | $5.938 | $7.150 | $7.147 | $5.893 | $6.517 | $7.8 |
| Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... |
$3.777 | $4.321 | $5.425 | $5.385 | $3.966 | $4.379 | $5.280 |
| Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... |
$2.714 | $3.092 | $3.760 | $3.660 | $2.825 | $2.998 | |
| Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
$3.826 | $4.498 | $5.910 | $6.124 | $4.441 | $4.824 | $5.7 |
| Emory University Emory University Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of... |
$4.376 | $4.870 | $5.562 | $5.473 | $4.328 | $4.694 | $5.3 |
| George Washington University George Washington University The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States... |
$0.823 | $0.963 | $1.147 | $1.256 | $1.011 | $1.144 | |
| Georgetown University Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States... |
$0.741 | $0.834 | $1.059 | $1.059 | $0.895 | $1.010 | |
| Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States... (Georgia Tech Foundation only) |
$0.937 | $1.047 | $1.281 | $1.344 | $0.994 | $1.051 | |
| Grinnell College Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.... |
$1.391 | $1.472 | $1.718 | $1.472 | $1.076 | $1.265 | |
| Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
$25.473 | $28.916 | $34.635 | $36.556 | $25.662 | $27.557 | $32.000 |
| Indiana University Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana... (system-wide) |
$1.107 | $1.276 | $1.557 | $1.546 | $1.227 | $1.371 | |
| Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States... |
$2.177 | $2.351 | $2.800 | $2.525 | $1.977 | $2.220 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
$6.712 | $8.368 | $9.980 | $10.069 | $7.982 | $8.317 | $9.9 |
| Michigan State University Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... |
$0.906 | $1.048 | $1.248 | $1.282 | $1.047 | $1.449 | |
| New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... |
$1.548 | $1.775 | $2.162 | $2.475 | $2.094 | $2.370 | |
| Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... |
$4.215 | $5.141 | $6.503 | $7.244 | $5.445 | $5.945 | |
| Ohio State University Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States... |
$1.726 | $1.997 | $2.338 | $2.076 | $1.652 | $1.869 | |
| Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... |
$1.175 | $1.326 | $1.590 | $1.545 | $1.226 | $1.368 | |
| Pomona College Pomona College Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member... |
$1.299 | $1.457 | $1.761 | $1.794 | $1.334 | $1.449 | |
| Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
$11.207 | $13.045 | $15.787 | $16.349 | $12.614 | $14.391 | $17.100 |
| Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and... (system-wide) |
$1.341 | $1.494 | $1.787 | $1.736 | $1.458 | $1.633 | |
| Rice University Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... |
$3.611 | $3.986 | $4.670 | $4.610 | $3.613 | $4.100 | |
| Rockefeller University Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private university offering postgraduate and postdoctoral education. It has a strong concentration in the biological sciences. It is also known for producing numerous Nobel laureates... |
$1.557 | $1.772 | $2.144 | $2.021 | $1.528 | $1.561 | |
| Smith College Smith College Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters... |
$1.036 | $1.156 | $1.361 | $1.366 | $1.096 | $1.244 | |
| Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church... |
$1.014 | $1.122 | $1.328 | $1.368 | $1.035 | $1.069 | |
| Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
$12.205 | $14.085 | $17.165 | $17.200 | $12.619 | $13.851 | $16.500 |
| Swarthmore College Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia.... |
$1.164 | $1.245 | $1.441 | $1.413 | $1.129 | $1.249 | |
| Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University System The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the United States. Through a statewide network of eleven universities, eight state agencies and a comprehensive health science center, the Texas A&M System educates over 100,000 students, conducts more than $600... (system-wide) |
$4.964 | $5.643 | $6.590 | $6.659 | $5.084 | $5.738 | |
| Texas Christian University Texas Christian University Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ... |
$0.942 | $1.016 | $1.187 | $1.260 | $0.975 | $1.048 | |
| Tufts University Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France... |
$0.845 | $1.215 | $1.452 | $1.446 | $1.103 | $1.214 | |
| University of California University of California The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University... (system-wide) |
$5.222 | $5.734 | $6.439 | $6.217 | $4.937 | $5.441 | |
| University of Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... |
$4.137 | $4.867 | $6.204 | $6.632 | $5.578 | $5.638 | |
| University of Florida University of Florida The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906... (UF Foundation only) |
$0.836 | $0.996 | $1.219 | $1.251 | $1.011 | $1.105 | |
| University of Illinois University of Illinois system The University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three campuses: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Across its three campuses, the University of Illinois enrolls about 70,000 students. It had an operating budget of $4.17 billion in 2007.-System:The... (system-wide) |
$1.148 | $1.252 | $1.515 | $1.459 | $1.112 | $1.290 | |
| University of Kansas University of Kansas The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The... (system-wide) |
$0.955 | $1.049 | $1.239 | $1.218 | $0.955 | $1.198 | |
| University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... |
$4.931 | $5.652 | $7.090 | $7.572 | $6.001 | $6.564 | $7.8 |
| University of Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... |
$1.969 | $2.224 | $2.804 | $2.751 | $2.086 | $2.196 | |
| University of Nebraska University of Nebraska system The University of Nebraska system is the public university system in the state of Nebraska, USA. Founded in 1869 with one campus in Lincoln, the system now has four universities and an agricultural college.... (system-wide) |
$1.042 | $1.153 | $1.277 | $1.221 | $0.965 | $1.143 | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States... |
$1.486 | $1.149 | $2.164 | $2.359 | $1.905 | $1.979 | |
| University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States... |
$3.650 | $4.437 | $5.977 | $6.226 | $4.795 | $5.235 | |
| University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... |
$4.370 | $5.313 | $6.635 | $6.233 | $5.171 | $5.669 | $6.6 |
| University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of... |
$1.530 | $1.803 | $2.254 | $2.334 | $1.837 | $2.033 | |
| University of Richmond University of Richmond The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate... |
$1.208 | $1.388 | $1.655 | $1.704 | $1.417 | $1.615 | |
| University of Rochester University of Rochester The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The... |
$1.370 | $1.491 | $1.726 | $1.731 | $1.315 | $1.368 | |
| University of Southern California University of Southern California The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university... |
$2.746 | $3.066 | $3.715 | $3.589 | $2.671 | $2.948 | |
| University of Texas System University of Texas System The University of Texas System encompasses 15 educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are academic universities and six are health institutions. The system is headquartered in Austin and has a total enrollment of over 190,000 students... (system-wide) |
$11.610 | $13.235 | $15.614 | $16.111 | $12.163 | $14.052 | |
| University of Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... |
$3.219 | $3.618 | $4.370 | $4.526 | $3.577 | $4.457 | $5.240 |
| University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... |
$1.490 | $1.794 | $2.184 | $2.262 | $1.649 | $1.830 | |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866... (UW Foundation only) |
$1.125 | $1.426 | $1.645 | $1.735 | $1.373 | $1.551 | |
| Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the... |
$2.628 | $2.946 | $3.487 | $3.524 | $2.834 | $3.044 | |
| Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... |
$4.268 | $4.684 | $5.658 | $5.350 | $4.081 | $4.473 | |
| Wellesley College | $1.276 | $1.412 | $1.657 | $1.611 | $1.266 | $1.307 | |
| Williams College Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this... |
$1.348 | $1.462 | $1.892 | $1.808 | $1.409 | $1.527 | $1.784 |
| Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
$15.224 | $18.031 | $22.530 | $22.870 | $16.327 | $16.652 | $19.400 |
| Yeshiva University Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012... |
$1.149 | $1.273 | $1.410 | $1.345 | $0.979 | $1.028 |
Endowment per student
Note that references for the 2005 figures in the table below have not been provided, other than for Bryn Athyn College; presumably the 2005 figures come from the Chronicle of Higher Education (see next footnote), though this has not been confirmed; note also that the 2005 figures from the Chronicle are suspect (Bryn Athyn, for example, has only 150 students according to the college's own website, not 374 as the Chronicles ranking states).Note that there are some inconsistencies in calculating the 2006 figures in the table below; figures for some schools (e.g., Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Williams, Davidson) are based on referenced, overall endowment estimates from early 2007; figures for other schools are based on referenced, overall endowment reports from 2006; furthermore, some figures are calculated with enrollment numbers that include students studying off campus (e.g., Middlebury), while other calculations exclude off-campus students (e.g., Bowdoin); finally, although most calculations are based on enrollments for 2006-2007, some derive from the 2005-2006 academic year (e.g., Bowdoin); eliminating these inconsistencies is difficult due to variations in schools' reporting practices.
| Institution | Endowment per Student (2005) in USD |
Endowment per Student (2006) in USD |
Endowment per Student (2011) in USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
$1,679,380. | $1,900,000. | |
| Bryn Athyn College Bryn Athyn College Bryn Athyn College is a small, private Christian liberal arts college located northeast of Philadelphia in the borough of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, a National Historic Landmark District... |
$803,626. | $1,770,994. | |
| Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
$1,342,099. | $1,751,927. | $1,663,807. |
| Rice University Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... |
$1,413,793. | $1,557,600. | |
| Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
$1,291,051. | $1,456,940. | $1,523,809. |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is a private undergraduate engineering college located in Needham, Massachusetts , adjacent to the Babson College campus. Olin College is noted in the engineering community for its youth, small size, project-based curriculum, and large endowment funded... |
$1,371,287 | $1,412,147. | |
| Grinnell College Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.... |
$893,666. | $1,076,056. | |
| Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
$794,620. | $946,944. | $1,053,236. |
| Pomona College Pomona College Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member... |
$837,825. | $942,530. | |
| Swarthmore College Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia.... |
$789,735. | $841,000. | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
$650,430. | $816,161. | |
| Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009... |
$700,850. | $820,846. | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care... |
$426,326. | $790,002. | |
| Williams College Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this... |
$666,193. | $783,000. | $815,346. |
| California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... |
$653,726. | $945,140. | |
| Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... |
$475,859. | $614,035. | |
| Wellesley College | $557,243. | $603,969. | |
| University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States... |
$481,738. | ||
| Hamilton College | $435,032. | ||
| Norfolk State University Norfolk State University Norfolk State University is a four-year, state-supported, coed, liberal arts, historically black university located in Norfolk, Virginia. It is member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and the Virginia High-Tech Partnership.-Academics:... |
$421,167 | ||
| Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... |
$440,068. | $418,202. | |
| Smith College Smith College Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters... |
$361,572. | $405,737. | |
| Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is... |
$404,955. | ||
| Haverford College Haverford College Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia... |
$387,785. | ||
| Emory University Emory University Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of... |
$360,662. | $380,937. | |
| University of Rochester University of Rochester The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The... |
$379,774. | ||
| Middlebury College Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,... |
$367,830. | ||
| Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
$350,727. | ||
| Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... |
$346,325. | ||
| Denison University Denison University Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital... |
$333,333. | ||
| Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college and a member of the Claremont Colleges located in Claremont, California. The campus is located east of Downtown Los Angeles... |
$352,219. | $327,543. | |
| Lafayette College Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832... |
$324,594. | ||
| Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh.... |
$322,261. | ||
| Washington and Lee University Washington and Lee University Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of... |
$315,000 | ||
| Wabash College Wabash College Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Morehouse College, Wabash is one of only three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.-History:Wabash College was founded... |
$311,086 | ||
| Trinity University (Texas) Trinity University (Texas) Trinity University is a private, independent, primarily undergraduate, university in San Antonio, Texas. Its campus is located in the Monte Vista Historic District and adjacent to Brackenridge Park.... |
$305,120. | ||
| Berry College Berry College Berry College is an American accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Mount Berry, unincorporated Floyd County, Georgia, north of Rome. It was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry.-Location:Berry College is located on U.S... |
$300,203. | ||
| Carleton College Carleton College Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. In 2012 U.S... |
$292,112. | ||
| Virginia Military Institute Virginia Military Institute The Virginia Military Institute , located in Lexington, Virginia, is the oldest state-supported military college and one of six senior military colleges in the United States. Unlike any other military college in the United States—and in keeping with its founding principles—all VMI students are... |
$291,001. | ||
| Vassar College Vassar College Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,... |
$281,500. | ||
| Davidson College Davidson College Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine, although it has recently dropped to 11th in U.S. News... |
$250,000. | ||
| Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... |
$212,598. | $240,951. | |
| College of the Holy Cross College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA... |
$221,962. | ||
| University of the Ozarks University of the Ozarks The University of the Ozarks is a private, four-year liberal arts, comprehensive university located in Clarksville, Arkansas, a community of just over 9,000 people and the county seat of Johnson County. U of O is located at the foot of the Ozark Mountains, about west of Little Rock... |
$151,453. | ||
| University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... |
$157,512. | ||
| The University of Texas at Austin | $144,880. | ||
| Southern Methodist University(SMU) Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church... |
$90,898. | $102,491. | |
| Babson College Babson College Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969... |
$58,560 | $66,685. | |
| College of William & Mary | $58,023. | $63,773. | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States... |
$41,372. | ||
Certain institutions by endowment growth
All data are from NACUBO.(Talk:List of U.S. colleges and universities by endowment#Endowment per year): initial top 25 endowments in absolute size as of 1986.| Name | Aggregate Arithmetic Growth | Per Annum Exponential Growth | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... |
499% | 8.53% | $1,841,234 | $307,250 |
| Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... |
705% | 9.93% | $5,424,733 | $673,848 |
| Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... |
687% | 9.82% | $3,760,234 | $477,774 |
| Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
1,529% | 13.29% | $5,910,280 | $362,706 |
| Emory University Emory University Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of... |
646% | 9.57% | $5,561,743 | $745,188 |
| Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
908% | 11.00% | $34,634,906 | $3,435,013 |
| Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States... |
470% | 8.29% | $2,800,377 | $491,543 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
927% | 11.09% | $9,980,410 | $971,346 |
| Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... |
817% | 10.55% | $6,503,292 | $709,236 |
| Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
716% | 10.00% | $15,787,200 | $1,934,010 |
| Rice University Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... |
518% | 8.67% | $4,669,544 | $755,782 |
| Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
1,042% | 11.60% | $17,164,836 | $1,502,583 |
| Texas A&M System Texas A&M University System The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the United States. Through a statewide network of eleven universities, eight state agencies and a comprehensive health science center, the Texas A&M System educates over 100,000 students, conducts more than $600... |
493% | 8.48% | $6,590,300 | $1,110,440 |
| University of Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... |
673% | 9.74% | $6,204,189 | $802,500 |
| University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... |
2,719% | 15.90% | $7,089,830 | $251,517 |
| University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States... |
1,437% | 13.01% | $5,976,973 | $388,965 |
| University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... |
1,129% | 11.94% | $6,635,187 | $540,084 |
| University of Southern California University of Southern California The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university... |
927% | 11.09% | $3,715,272 | $361,784 |
| University of Texas System University of Texas System The University of Texas System encompasses 15 educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are academic universities and six are health institutions. The system is headquartered in Austin and has a total enrollment of over 190,000 students... |
517% | 8.66% | $15,613,672 | $2,530,730 |
| University of Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... |
1,184% | 12.15% | $4,370,209 | $340,387 |
| Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the... |
681% | 9.79% | $3,487,500 | $446,458 |
| Washington University | 481% | 8.38% | $5,567,843 | $958,461 |
| Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
1,195% | 12.20% | $22,530,200 | $1,739,460 |