Since colleges and universities vary greatly in terms of the size of their student bodies, a table with endowment per student figures is included as well. For example, Princeton University's endowment is smaller than Harvard University's, yet Princeton University's endowment per student figure is larger than Harvard University's at $2.8 million per student.
Harvard University's endowment was worth more than $32 billion last year, beating out other universities by billions of dollars. Other top endowments included Yale University with $20.8 billion, the University of Texas system with $20.4 billion and Stanford University with $18.7 billion.
The value of the Texas System’s fund grew 24 percent to $25.4 billion in the year ended June 30, the biggest after Harvard University’s $35.9 billion. Yale’s endowment, which had ranked second since at least 2002, increased 15 percent to $23.9 billion.
Since colleges and universities vary greatly in terms of the size of their student bodies, a table with endowment per student figures is included as well. For example, Princeton University's endowment is smaller than Harvard University's, yet Princeton University's endowment per student figure is larger than Harvard University's at $2.8 million per student.
Princeton’s success relies heavily on this annual growth, as almost 50% of 2014-2015 fiscal year revenue was attributable to endowment distributions. Princeton maintains a target spending rate between 4 and 6.25%. Stanford University - $22.2 Billion. Stanford University maintains over 7,000 separate endowed university funds.
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For example, Princeton University's endowment is smaller than Harvard University's, yet Princeton University's endowment per student figure is larger than Harvard University's at $2.8 million per student.
The NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments found that the return on endowment funds at higher education institutions dipped by around 1.9 percent on average for the 2016 fiscal year, based on data gathered from 805 colleges and universities.
Since colleges and universities vary greatly in terms of the size of their student bodies, a table with endowment per student figures is included as well. For example, Princeton University's endowment is smaller than Harvard University's, yet Princeton University's endowment per student figure is larger than Harvard University's at $2.8 million per student.
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