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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.

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