CHE has compiled the state of university and college endowments at the end of 2018; here is the per student value of these endowments, which tells a different story than simply the "gross" numbers CHE lists. The per student value is in parentheses after the school name. One school that has been climbing the "ranks" here over the years has been Penn. Note that neither Columbia's nor NYU substantial real estate holdings in New York City, which they rent out to faculty at reduced rates, figure in their endowment numbers.
1. Princeton University ($3,133,000)
2. Yale University ($2,384,000)
3. Harvard University ($1,741,000)
4. Stanford University ($1,612,000)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($1,428,000)
6. Pomona College ($1,362,000)
7. Swarthmore College ($1,306,000)
7. Williams College ($1,309,000)
9. Amherst College ($1,285,000)
9. California Institute of Technology ($1,287,000)
11. Grinnell College ($1,163,000)
12. Bowdoin College ($902,000)
13. Rice University ($894,000)
14. University of Notre Dame ($873,000)
15. Dartmouth College ($857,000)
16. Wellesley College ($851,000)
17. Berea College ($739,000)
18. Washington & Lee University ($708,000)
19. Smith College ($646,000)
20. University of Pennsylvania ($638,000)
21. Claremont-McKenna College ($619,000)
22. University of Richmond ($608,000)
23. Duke University ($536,000)
24. Northwestern University ($523,000)
24. Hamilton College ($521,000)
26. Brywn Mawr College ($505,000)
27. Washington University, St. Louis ($501,000)
28. Trinity University (San Antonio) ($496,000)
29. University of Chicago ($482,000)
30. Emory University ($478,000)
31. Middlebury College ($441,000)
31. Vassar College ($442,000)
33. Berry College ($439,000)
34. Davidson College ($421,000)
35. Carleton College ($417,000)
36. Colby College ($394,000)
36. Reed College ($393,000)
38. Columbia University ($389,000)
38. Denison University ($389,000)
40. Haveford College ($386,000)
41. Whitman College ($382,000)
42. Colorado College ($380,000)
43. Brown University ($370,000)
44. Vanderbilt University ($359,000)
45. Macalester College ($353,000)
46. Mount Holyoke College ($351,000)
47. Lafayette College ($328,000)
48. Colgate University ($319,000)
48. Oberlin College ($318,000)
50. Wesleyan University ($308,000)
50. Cornell University ($306,000)
Other institutions (not ranked):
University of Virginia ($285,000)
Trinity College (Connecticut) ($262,000)
University of Michigan System ($259,000)
Bucknell University ($233,000)
University of Rochester ($203,000)
Lehigh University ($192,000)
Wake Forest University ($179,000)
Boston College ($172,000)
Carnegie-Mellon University ($172,000)
Johns Hopkins University ($164,000)
University of Pittsburgh ($147,000)
University of Texas System ($140,000)
University of Southern California ($121,000)
Ohio State University ($113,000)
Texas A&M University System ($88,000)
New York University ($82,000)
Boston University ($64,000)
University of California System ($44,000)
Rockefeller University in New York City is primarily a research institution, but it does enroll a small number of PhD students in biological sciences and in a PhD/MD program. The per student value of their endowment works out to $12,190,000 per student, but that's because they are not really an educational institution as opposed to a research institution. Princeton Theological Seminary enrolls just about 500 students in its theology programs, making for a per student endowment of $2,230,000. The Medical College of Wisconsin enrolls 1217 medical students only, with an endowment worth $765,000 per student.
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