At every college, athletics endowments are dwarfed by their universitywide counterparts. Even the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s sports endowment, the largest in a Chronicle survey, is one-tenth the size of the university’s total endowment. But that gap shrinks, and often reverses, when the endowments are measured on a per-student and per-scholarship-athlete basis. By that measure, North Carolina has endowed its athletes four times as much as other undergraduates. Below are the top 10 athletics endowments, based on the survey, and how they stack up against their institutions’ overall endowments.
Institution | Sports endowment | Athletes | Endowment per athlete | Overall endowment | Undergraduates | Endowment per student |
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1. U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $212,000,000 | 437 | $485,126 | $2,164,444,000 | 17,628 | $122,784 |
2. Duke U. | $150,717,426 | 339 | $444,594 | $5,910,280,000 | 6,394 | $924,348 |
3. Boston College | $100,000,000 | 262 | $381,679 | $1,670,092,000 | 9,860 | $169,380 |
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