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Largest College Endowments, 2011

August 26, 2012

Of all endowments valued at more than $250-million, the UCLA Foundation had the highest rate of growth over the previous year, at 49 percent.

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Largest College Endowments, 2011

Of all endowments valued at more than $250-million, the UCLA Foundation had the highest rate of growth over the previous year, at 49 percent.

Rank	Institution	Market value, June 30, 2011	1-year change
1	Harvard U.	$31,728,080,000	15.1%
2	Yale U.	$19,374,000,000	16.3%
3	U. of Texas system	$17,148,649,000	22.0%
4	Princeton U.	$17,109,508,000	18.9%
5	Stanford U.	$16,502,606,000	19.1%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$9,712,628,000	16.8%
7	U. of Michigan	$7,834,751,733	19.4%
8	Columbia U.	$7,789,578,000	19.5%
9	Northwestern U.	$7,182,745,000	20.8%
10	Texas A&M U. system	$6,999,516,842	22.0%
11	U. of Pennsylvania	$6,582,029,227	16.1%
12	U. of Chicago	$6,575,126,000	18.6%
13	U. of California	$6,342,217,000	16.6%
14	U. of Notre Dame	$6,259,598,000	19.6%
15	Duke U.	$5,747,377,000	19.2%
16	Emory U.	$5,400,366,906	15.0%
17	Washington U. in St. Louis	$5,280,143,093	18.0%
18	Cornell U.	$5,059,406,000	15.5%
19	U. of Virginia	$4,760,514,987	28.4%
20	Rice U.	$4,451,452,310	17.6%
21	U. of Southern California	$3,517,173,000	19.3%
22	Vanderbilt U.	$3,414,514,000	12.2%
23	Dartmouth College	$3,413,406,000	13.8%
24	New York U.	$2,827,000,000	19.3%
25	Johns Hopkins U.	$2,598,467,000	17.1%
26	U. of Pittsburgh	$2,527,398,000	24.3%
27	U. of Minnesota and foundations	$2,503,304,745	14.0%
28	Brown U.	$2,496,926,000	15.8%
29	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and foundations	$2,260,969,724	14.2%
30	U. of Washington	$2,154,493,919	13.1%
31	Ohio State U.	$2,120,714,247	13.4%
32	Purdue U.	$2,001,600,855	22.6%
33	U. of Richmond	$1,877,193,412	16.2%
34	U. of Wisconsin Foundation	$1,872,933,440	20.7%
35	Williams College	$1,784,304,604	16.9%
36	California Institute of Technology	$1,772,368,965	13.9%
37	Rockefeller U.	$1,746,363,000	11.8%
38	Trustees of Boston College	$1,726,100,000	16.7%
39	Pennsylvania State U.	$1,725,138,203	26.1%
40	Case Western Reserve U.	$1,703,164,107	16.5%
41	Pomona College	$1,700,454,000	16.6%
42	Amherst College	$1,641,511,000	18.5%
43	U. of Rochester	$1,622,812,000	18.6%
44	Georgia Institute of Technology and Foundation	$1,619,717,576	16.6%
45	U. of Illinois and Foundation	$1,600,603,446	24.1%
46	U. of Toronto	$1,599,133,754	21.3%
47	Indiana U. and Foundation	$1,574,815,344	14.9%
48	Swarthmore College	$1,508,483,000	20.8%
49	Grinnell College	$1,500,219,483	18.6%
50	Wellesley College	$1,499,872,000	14.8%
51	UCLA Foundation	$1,486,244,000	49.3%
52	Smith College	$1,429,527,290	15.0%
53	Tufts U.	$1,403,883,000	15.7%
54	Michigan State U.	$1,400,379,703	22.0%
55	George Washington U.	$1,331,100,652	16.4%
56	U. of Florida Foundation	$1,295,313,181	17.3%
57	Kansas U. Endowment Association	$1,250,443,188	18.6%
58	U. of Nebraska	$1,241,577,000	8.6%
59	Washington and Lee U.	$1,218,132,000	20.8%
60	U. of Oklahoma	$1,212,022,805	25.1%
61	Southern Methodist U.	$1,196,508,000	11.9%
62	Texas Christian U.	$1,191,900,000	13.7%
63	Georgetown U.	$1,160,290,744	14.9%
64	Trustees of Boston U.	$1,159,583,000	16.9%
65	U. of British Columbia	$1,149,367,416	28.4%
66	U. of Delaware^*	$1,138,203,000	16.0%
67	Yeshiva U.	$1,125,031,979	9.5%
68	U. of Missouri system	$1,119,032,098	14.8%
69	Lehigh U.	$1,077,430,000	14.6%
70	Wake Forest U.	$1,058,250,000	12.9%
71	UC-Berkeley Foundation	$1,054,800,000	23.4%
72	U. of Iowa and Foundation	$1,044,096,998	31.9%
73	Carnegie Mellon U.	$1,017,338,000	24.8%
74	Tulane U.	$1,014,985,000	14.2%
75	U. of Cincinnati	$1,004,367,733	13.3%
76	Baylor U.	$1,003,929,000	15.1%
77	U. of Alabama system	$995,146,626	16.5%
78	McGill U. (Quebec)	$993,107,141	26.3%
79	Berea College	$978,734,900	15.6%
80	Trinity U.	$962,828,677	12.6%
81	U. of Kentucky	$915,924,000	17.6%
82	Princeton Theological Seminary	$914,713,041	12.8%
83	Syracuse U.	$913,662,039	7.6%
84	Middlebury College	$907,668,000	15.9%
85	Bowdoin College	$904,215,000	20.0%
86	Texas Tech U. system	$890,929,950	14.9%
87	Saint Louis U.	$880,251,000	24.3%
88	U. of Tennessee system	$848,328,582	16.4%
89	Baylor College of Medicine	$838,207,247	4.9%
90	U. of Alberta	$815,274,292	24.6%
91	Vassar College	$814,130,058	16.4%
92	U. of Tulsa	$800,924,534	16.7%
93	U. of Maryland system and Foundation	$791,809,367	17.7%
94	U. of Arkansas and foundations	$788,667,525	17.2%
95	U. of Colorado Foundation	$784,579,861	17.9%
96	Carnegie Institution of Washington	$784,430,978	14.1%
97	U. of Louisville Foundation	$772,157,466	15.4%
98	Berry College	$752,544,308	27.1%
99	U. of Georgia Foundation	$745,765,242	19.2%
100	Washington State U.	$722,716,916	8.1%
101	U. of Miami	$719,851,549	16.4%
102	Santa Clara U.	$716,821,360	14.7%
103	Brandeis U.	$703,665,944	13.5%
104	Oberlin College	$699,895,497	13.2%
105	Rutgers U.	$698,507,000	16.7%
106	Colgate U.	$693,436,000	12.9%
107	Louisiana State U. system	$692,556,188	13.6%
108	Oklahoma State U. and Foundation	$681,743,946	37.7%
109	Principia Corporation	$679,232,111	11.9%
110	Bryn Mawr College	$671,103,048	17.0%
111	U. of Utah	$668,682,564	17.8%
112	U. of Houston system and foundations	$662,983,736	19.9%
113	Lafayette College	$658,146,000	13.3%
114	Hamilton College	$657,528,914	19.0%
115	Denison U.	$654,583,912	16.0%
116	Macalester College	$654,299,000	11.5%
117	Carleton College	$653,465,246	16.0%
118	U. of California-San Francisco Foundation	$643,107,000	26.3%
119	Rochester Institute of Technology	$639,673,483	14.7%
120	Queen’s U. (Ontario)	$633,783,986	25.6%
121	College of William & Mary and foundations	$624,726,327	15.8%
122	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$621,915,733	-1.2%
123	North Carolina State U. and related foundations	$617,632,000	22.8%
124	Iowa State U. and Foundation	$612,282,743	20.3%
125	Colby College	$611,441,000	21.8%
126	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	$607,134,545	5.2%
127	College of the Holy Cross	$606,074,000	15.5%
128	Pepperdine U.	$604,634,910	7.1%
129	Mount Holyoke College	$602,481,376	15.9%
130	Virginia Tech Foundation	$600,647,830	19.6%
131	Wesleyan U.	$589,811,000	15.0%
132	Northeastern U.	$588,400,000	15.7%
133	Bucknell U.	$575,367,000	17.1%
134	Furman U.	$572,162,347	14.8%
135	Loma Linda U.	$552,451,739	19.9%
136	U. of Arizona and Foundation	$552,350,858	15.0%
137	Claremont McKenna College	$543,236,000	16.5%
138	Colorado College	$541,997,629	17.9%
139	Howard U.	$539,315,973	17.3%
140	U. of Massachusetts Foundation	$529,261,906	15.2%
141	Florida State U. Foundation	$525,259,759	16.1%
142	Drexel U.	$525,211,000	23.0%
143	McMaster U. (Ontario)	$521,307,351	26.8%
144	Arizona State U. and Foundation	$514,724,019	16.6%
145	U. of Calgary	$511,495,055	27.8%
146	Davidson College	$509,583,005	19.1%
147	DePauw U.	$500,920,763	15.1%
148	U. at Buffalo Foundation	$494,791,126	15.4%
149	U. of South Carolina	$494,357,595	19.4%
150	Medical College of Wisconsin	$487,921,000	18.7%
151	American U. in Cairo	$486,567,963	14.3%
152	Clemson U. and Foundation	$473,747,559	24.0%
153	Auburn U. and Foundation	$471,850,635	19.4%
154	U. of Mississippi Foundation	$469,006,324	13.0%
155	U. of Oregon Foundation	$467,210,649	14.0%
156	Fordham U.	$457,980,142	23.3%
157	Oregon Health and Science U. Foundation	$455,720,577	19.9%
158	Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education	$442,985,406	42.5%
159	Fuller Foundation	$437,000,000	7.3%
160	Rush U. Medical Center	$435,491,634	15.3%
161	American U.	$421,000,000	24.6%
162	Trustees of Trinity College	$416,528,439	16.8%
163	American U. of Beirut	$415,924,403	8.9%
164	U. of Dayton	$414,503,615	19.6%
165	Oregon State U. Foundation	$411,964,155	17.1%
166	Miami U. and Foundation	$403,069,832	15.8%
167	Haverford College	$402,730,000	13.3%
168	Marquette U.	$401,208,000	23.1%
169	National U.	$400,663,041	13.6%
170	Reed College	$398,582,830	11.1%
171	Whitman College	$395,839,873	18.2%
172	West Virginia U. Foundation	$392,001,000	16.3%
173	U. of Manitoba	$390,957,171	25.7%
174	Loyala U. of Chicago	$388,739,000	23.3%
175	Dalhousie U. and Foundation (Nova Scotia)	$385,317,121	26.7%
176	Loyola Marymount U.	$380,982,000	16.8%
177	U. of California-San Diego Foundation	$378,506,156	20.6%
178	Creighton U.	$375,221,000	18.1%
179	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$374,430,000	21.7%
180	U. of St. Thomas	$371,937,575	26.5%
181	Villanova U.	$370,292,388	24.4%
182	Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	$369,064,795	10.0%
183	Lebanese American U.	$366,942,875	14.5%
184	U. System of New Hampshire and foundations	$362,547,175	35.0%
185	St. John’s U. (N.Y.)	$359,493,720	18.6%
186	Virginia Commonwealth U.	$349,698,978	24.6%
187	U. of South Florida Foundation	$349,320,390	18.0%
188	U. of New Mexico and Foundation	$349,145,455	18.0%
189	Rollins College	$349,115,389	24.7%
190	Miami Dade College	$348,686,092	13.9%
191	De Paul U.	$348,254,975	22.6%
192	York U. and Foundation (Ontario)	$347,817,069	32.7%
193	U. of Western Ontario and Foundation	$347,147,479	28.9%
194	Mississippi State U. and Foundation	$346,675,677	19.0%
195	U. of Denver	$345,213,849	19.4%
196	U. of Vermont	$343,049,632	17.8%
197	St. Olaf College	$342,728,965	24.9%
198	Occidental College	$342,393,345	14.6%
199	U. of Wisconsin system	$341,717,909	18.4%
200	Wabash College	$340,719,611	15.6%
201	Kansas State U. Foundation	$337,459,676	21.6%
202	Ohio U. and Foundation	$335,999,726	21.2%
203	College of the Ozarks	$330,524,074	19.2%
204	Earlham College	$328,455,274	18.9%
205	Spelman College	$326,928,910	10.7%
206	U. of San Diego	$326,820,621	0.0%
207	Dickinson College	$326,551,024	17.5%
208	Wheaton College (Ill.)	$322,603,000	17.9%
209	Union College	$321,901,518	10.8%
210	U. of Wyoming Foundation	$321,780,557	26.2%
211	Clark U.	$320,452,567	16.5%
212	U. of the South	$318,709,539	17.0%
213	Rhode Island School of Design	$318,677,671	11.2%
214	Michigan State U. Foundation	$317,721,057	13.1%
215	U. of Connecticut and foundations	$312,329,000	14.9%
216	VMI Foundation	$304,430,179	0.6%
217	Franklin & Marshall College	$303,321,000	13.9%
218	U. of California-Irvine Foundation	$301,210,596	23.9%
219	Skidmore College	$299,365,262	10.5%
220	Abilene Christian U.	$299,109,038	14.0%
221	U.S of South Alabama Foundation	$283,496,000	7.5%
222	Rhodes College	$283,371,967	12.2%
223	Temple U.	$280,731,000	19.2%
224	Quinnipiac U.	$277,466,413	24.1%
225	Victoria U.	$275,219,330	14.5%
226	Hofstra U.	$274,261,664	20.6%
227	Southwestern U.	$268,982,899	11.2%
228	Scripps College	$266,869,354	15.4%
229	Loyola U. New Orleans	$266,205,416	15.0%
230	Agnes Scott College	$257,859,605	9.7%
231	U. of Alaska and Foundation	$257,780,627	19.1%
232	Medical College of Virginia Foundation	$256,462,431	19.3%
233	Simon Fraser U.	$256,164,936	27.2%
234	Fairfield U.	$254,004,267	16.1%
235	Wayne State U.	$251,309,000	12.3%
236	U. of Puget Sound	$251,291,451	15.4%
237	Carleton U. (Ontario)	$250,851,235	23.1%

* Figures for the University of Delaware were updated after the National Association of College and University Business Officers released its data, and they were updated here on August 30, 2012.

Note: The table includes only institutions participating in the comparative performance study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.