Talk:List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment

message: The University of Chicago, with $10.3 billion as of a recent date, is missing from the list. Please add it after checking the exact amount. 2603:300A:1400:D200:A552:12A4:6F59:F2EC (talk) 08:58, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Chicago 

message: An IP editor continues to change the figure for Stanford from the NACUBO-sourced one to one that includes non-endowment funds such as expendable funds and capital reserves per their reference here.  The IP editor has been asked to discuss the edit but has not yet done so.  Here is another opportunity on this talk page for them to discuss why they think their edit is more appropriate in this article. 72Dino (talk) 20:05, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stanford University 

message: Should be on the list as per the wikipedia page on Syracuse University lists its endowment at $1.01 billion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.24.6.168 (talk) 22:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syracuse University 

message: With the new NACUBO rankings, there are now 70 universities with $1 billion or more in endowment. This criteria ($1 billion minimum endowment) that is currently used for listing a university is untenable to maintain as the number of schools qualifying will continue to grow. Therefore, I think we need to rethink  the criteria for inclusion. How about the "Top 50 largest endowments". That way, the criteria is scalable no matter how large endowment values grow with time. CrazyPaco (talk) 02:08, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the criteria for listing? 

message: I don't think system-wide endowments should be listed in a list comparing those system-wide endowments to endowments of specific individual universities. In many cases, these system-wide endowments include endowments from several independent university campuses, health science centers, research centers, law schools, agriculture center, and other institutions that are not part of the flagship university. It is comparing apples to oranges. Those system-wide endowments create a false view of the flagship university's actual endowment. Treydavis3 (talk) 20:41, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that is there are less than ideal comparisons, but I'm not sure, given the above mentioned differences in sources how to make them comparable. Some universities don't release numbers for individual schools or campuses. Penn State, for instance, has 19 campuses, including separate campuses for law and medicine, and there are no publicly available break downs of those numbers. Other schools in the table, such as Kansas and Purdue have a few campus and have been noted as "systems", even though they aren't listed as such on NACUBO's report which makes me wonder about the appropriateness of such notation per WP:OR. However, such schools aren't anywhere near the equivalent to systems to those of, say, the UC system or the University of Texas system, that include multiple full fledged national-level research universities. I'm not sure, how in the existing table, numbers calculated in variety of manners can be introduced and still have those numbers be comparable to the degree of the unified presentation that the NACUBO study provides. However, perhaps a new section could be added to address such discrepancies. It could include breakdowns of system or campus endowments if available, while noting market value calculations may differ from the NACUBO study. CrazyPaco (talk) 18:09, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What about making two separate tables, one for university endowments and another for system-wide endowments? I don't think they should be in the same comparison tables because they are comparing two different endowments. Treydavis3 (talk) 03:28, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You first have to define what is a system vs a single university. I don't think that is as easy as it seems, especially without original research. And then you have the problem of the availability of a system's individual university endowments that aren't necessarily publicly available, or vice versa, making for the likely possibility that such a split couldn't be consistently applied for each system or school.  It also isn't necessarily clear in every case what exactly is reported for each individual school, when they part of a system, particularly in the school's own reports. There are a lot of potential assumptions to be made trying to split the table apart. Therefore, I think the first table needs to stay as is for consistency just because the NACUBO study knows a lot more about the numbers that it collects than we do. The existing table thus reflects NACUBO's report of endowment comparability, and it is noted as such, and thus also avoids introducing the editorializing or bias of Wikipedia editors. That said, I'd have no problem with adding a second, separate table that could contain information of system or university unit breakdowns or combinations that are known from other sources and not necessarily included in the NACUBO table. Such a table could include, for example, both the breakdowns of the UT system endowment, if available, or the combination of the Cal State system endowment that was removed from the NACUBO table. While I support adding such a table, and encourage you pursue it if you like, my guess is that the multiple sources and inherent complexities of that table will likely result in it becoming outdate and poorly maintained over time, and it will inherently be perpetually incomplete. None of those reasons are ones to prevent it from being created though.  CrazyPaco (talk) 08:56, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  System-wide 

message: Should be on the list as per the wikipedia page on University of Iowa lists its endowment at $1.06 billion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.158.101.11 (talk) 19:18, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The NACUBO references shows it at $981 million most recently, so it does not make the cut off. Thanks, Bahooka (talk) 20:31, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Iowa 

message: I will be adding tables depicting universities producing most millionaires and billionaires. Financial endowments are mostly comprised of donations to the institution. In the recent years, alumni giving has become even more crucial as tuition puts strain on undergraduate students and un-funded graduate students. Though, those are rarer at better universities with large endowments(as listed in this article). Furthermore, alumni contribution has picked up as public universities face budget cuts from their representative governmental agencies. Social stratification has also been a new trend in higher education that relates to financial standings of universities. This is old news, but it's no big news that the best and most selective universities also have the largest endowments. Higher ed scholars believe that the recent stratification is partially due to a divide between university haves and haves-nots. 
The reader of the encyclopedia will gain valuable information comparing the institutions producing the most financial successful alumni relative to their endowment. The source is a legitimate source(BusinessInsider) which is frequently used by higher education publications such as higher Ed Today and the Chronicle of Higher Education. 
Let me know what you all think,
DMB112 (talk) 18:40, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni success tables 

message: Over 1 billion as of November 2013.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.86.63 (talk) 08:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: University of Cincinnati

message: The new NECSE tables are out. I don't have time, but someone should add the 2013. Keep 2005. It's interesting to see the trend. EDIT: Never mind...I'll do it.
DMB112 (talk) 14:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: 2013

message: Is this possible?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.69.232.127 (talk) 20:33, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sort by Endowment? 

message: On the second table, if you try to sort by enrollment, it sorts alphabetically, rather than numerically, so you get 1,000; 1,500; 1,980; 10,450; 15,000; 19,000; 2,000; etc. I know there's a template that can be added to numbers to they sort right, but not sure what and don't have time right now to track it down. Matchups 23:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting by enrollment is broken 

message: I know this article only cites NACUBO, but the CSU system in California has a $1.4 billion endowment system-wide. Can we include that here? --Eustressmeister (talk) 15:43, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: California State University system

message: Rutgers reached 1 billion in December 2015. http://www.nj.com/education/2015/12/rutgers_university_endowment_crosses_1b_mark.html  Itsnotmyfault1 (talk) 20:43, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rutgers University 

message: It seems that the link for the most recent NACUBO endowment study is broken. That slippage may explain the wildly inaccurate figures cited for some schools for that year. Given the falsity of that column, it would be useful for someone to find a good source for NACUBO and to make the appropriate edits. I don't seem to be able to find a good citation or would do it myself rather than posting about it
PS: don't seem to be able to move my comment above the Rutgers footnote: apologies. I'll leave  my post up for a day or so and then delete it to restore the note to its proper position.
Bluedudemi (talk) 19:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you view this link: https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2017-Endowment-Market-Values.ashx?la=en&hash=E71088CDC05C76FCA30072DA109F91BBC10B0290?  I cross checked Harvard, Yale, and Rutgers and those numbers appear ok.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link for most recent year (2017) 

message: Hi all,
I cleaned up the (spammed) citations on the uni list and updated the dead links with working ones. After I changed this however, the "sort" function on the table has glitched somehow. I set the table to sortable but doesn't seem to work. May be an experienced wiki user can help to identify the issue and clear up sortability on that table. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 (talk) 05:11, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  help with sortability 

message: I realized that NACUBO also seems to publish endowment per student data; see https://www.nacubo.org/Research/2020/Public-NTSE-Tables (see "Table: U.S. and Canadian 2020 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value, Percentage Change in Market Value from FY19 to FY20, and FY20 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student (Excel)"). It's not quite as user-friendly as College Raptor, but it's more up-to-date and a more direct source, so we should probably switch to it.  talk 22:39, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The main problem with per student data is that such analyses give undue weight to boutique institutions and tiny schools. So we risk emphasizing institutions that barely qualify as universities.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:45, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have to disagree with that—for many readers here, the salient question is "which colleges can lavish the most resources on their students"? A giant institution that doesn't rank very highly on a per-capita basis isn't likely to be seen as truly wealthy; being "boutique" is the point. Just since one has never heard of e.g. Soka doesn't mean it doesn't count as a college.  talk 14:35, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: well there are probably smaller institutions with even fainter scholar imprint, if that is possible, than SOKA. So let me look around.  Probably some ultra-religious entity.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:30, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I fail to see the relevance of your concerns, Smokefoot. Can you please explain them differently or provide some specific examples? Why exactly is publishing information about endowment per student "emphasizing institutions that barely qualify as universities" [emphasis added]? What exactly is your concern? ElKevbo (talk) 20:21, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

text: When I downloaded and sorted the NACUBO data, there were a few institutions that showed up in the top 10 that weren't on the College Raptor list. They are Rockefeller University (graduate-only), Princeton Theological Seminary (which is separate from Princeton University), and Principia College (Christian Science liberal arts college; its absence was probably hardest to explain on the Raptor list). Beyond those, it's the usual suspects of Ivies and top liberal arts colleges.  talk 20:24, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

text: Try to find History, English, Physics, Chemistry depts at Soka. They might call themselves a university.... Just sayin' --Smokefoot (talk) 23:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We're not going to make or avoid making any edits simply because you personally disagree or don't like something. Please review WP:NPOV. ElKevbo (talk) 00:21, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course we arent going to make decisions based on the comments/views of a single editor.  But individual editors are welcome to express views and encourage analysis.  The question that I am probing is how does one define a "university"?  Some crackpot gives a billion dollars to create an operation that offers instruction in ultra-specialized topics, then declares that they are an-amazing-institution-that-deserves-respect on par with those that actually teach flim-flam topics like history and physics. How lame. Like I said, there no doubt are institutions that do even less than SOKA, and should be considered in this aanalysis. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:37, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We determine what is a college or university the same way we do everything else: we rely on reliable sources. In this instance, we can rely on NACUBO. If we were answering that question in other contexts, in the U.S. we could look to the U.S. Department of Education and recognized accreditors to determine if an institution is a legitimate college or university. If we need to classify an institution, we look to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. ElKevbo (talk) 03:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "We determine what is a college or university the same way we do everything else..." THAT is the question.  Wikipedia is not bound to do anything "the same way we do everything else..." For example, in my editing world of chemistry, we often do not accept international naming conventions. You see: we have discussions, reach consensus, and then act.  And often we revise our decisions.  We are autonomous and thinking. In any case, thank you for indulging me, despite my nonparticipation in groupthink. Go ahead, SOKA should be compared with the University of Chicago.--Smokefoot (talk) 11:44, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating endowments per student data 

message: I'm fed up with having to revert IPs trying to make updates to individual institutions who don't see or don't heed the editnotice. It'd really be nice if the WMF would take up meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Mobile_and_apps/Mobile_editnotices (aka phab:T201595).  talk 21:24, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Done 

message: News reports suggest that 2020 witnessed dramatic changes in university endowments, several ranging from 30-50+%.  It is likely that readers will be keenly interested in not just the new numbers but the previous (2019) values.  This idea is not actionable until February or March, 2022, when the next NACUBO report appears.--Smokefoot (talk) 20:25, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Next NACUBO report

message: I am respectfully asking  to please stop randomly re-ordering items in the table. Whether or not a table is sortable, information should not be sorted randomly by default. Filetime (talk) 00:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order 

message: Large endowment but not on the >$1 billion list. See https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_372.asp 2600:4040:278E:A400:EDB3:2CB1:94E:56D1 (talk) 21:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has a NACUBO data-only policy, and BYU isn't included in the FY2022 NACUBO report. Redraiderengineer (talk) 00:57, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: the policy should be revisited. Jjazz76 (talk) 05:57, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brigham Young University  

message: ===Private schools===
Institution                          	State               	Endowment(billions USD - FY2022)	US Dept of Educ	
Harvard University                   	Massachusetts       	$49.444                         	53,165         	
Yale University                      	Connecticut         	$41.383                         	42,282         	
Stanford University                  	California          	$36.300                         	37,788         	
Princeton University                 	New Jersey          	$35.794                         	37,026         	
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts       	$24.740                         	27,394         	
                                     	Pennsylvania        	$20.724                         	20,523         	
                                     	Indiana             	$16.729                         	18,385         	
Northwestern University              	Illinois            	$14.121                         	11,361         	
Columbia University                  	New York            	$13.280                         	14,349         	
Washington University in St. Louis   	Missouri            	$12.252                         	13,668         	
Duke University                      	North Carolina      	$12.116                         	12,692         	
University of Chicago                	Illinois            	$10.3                           	9,595          	
Vanderbilt University                	Tennessee           	$10.206                         	10,929         	
Emory University                     	Georgia             	$9.998                          	12,219         	
Cornell University                   	New York            	$9.838                          	9,474          	
Johns Hopkins University             	Maryland            	$8.244                          	9,315          	
Dartmouth College                    	New Hampshire       	$8.066                          	8,484          	
Rice University                      	Texas               	$7.814                          	8,080          	
                                     	California          	$7.319                          	8,126          	
Brown University                     	Rhode Island        	$6.141                          	6,520          	
New York University                  	New York            	$5.149                          	5,721          	
Carnegie Mellon University           	Pennsylvania        	$3.857                          	3,092          	
California Institute of Technology   	California          	$3.635                          	4,022          	
Williams College                     	Massachusetts       	$3.534                          	3,911          	
Boston College                       	Massachusetts       	$3.337                          	3,775          	
Amherst College                      	Massachusetts       	$3.322                          	3,775          	
Georgetown University                	District of Columbia	$3.210                          	2,592          	
                                     	Virginia            	$3.153                          	3,351          	
Boston University                    	Massachusetts       	$2.981                          	3,393          	
Wellesley College                    	Massachusetts       	$2.847                          	3,393          	
Pomona College                       	California          	$2.750                          	3,031          	
                                     	New York            	$2.739                          	3,195          	
Swarthmore College                   	Pennsylvania        	$2.725                          	2,899          	
Rockefeller University               	New York            	$2.608                          	               	
Grinnell College                     	Iowa                	$2.484                          	2,932          	
Bowdoin College                      	Maine               	$2.475                          	2,718          	
Smith College                        	Massachusetts       	$2.468                          	2,559          	
Texas Christian University           	Texas               	$2.401                          	               	
Tufts University                     	Massachusetts       	$2.351                          	2,647          	
George Washington University         	District of Columbia	$2.340                          	2,411          	
Case Western Reserve University      	Ohio                	$2.188                          	2,354          	
Tulane University                    	Louisiana           	$2.052                          	1,973          	
Washington and Lee University        	Virginia            	$1.998                          	2,092          	
Baylor University                    	Texas               	$1.971                          	1,829          	
Southern Methodist University        	Texas               	$1.958                          	               	
Wake Forest University               	North Carolina      	$1.820                          	1,863          	
Syracuse University                  	New York            	$1.794                          	1,814          	
University of Delaware               	Delaware            	$1.781                          	1,958          	
Trinity University                   	Texas               	$1.705                          	1,725          	
Lehigh University                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.680                          	1,785          	
Medical College of Wisconsin         	Wisconsin           	$1.512                          	1,626          	
Baylor College of Medicine           	Texas               	$1.494                          	1,668          	
Wesleyan University                  	Connecticut         	$1.485                          	1,670          	
Santa Clara University               	California          	$1.472                          	1,538          	
Middlebury College                   	Vermont             	$1.467                          	1,511          	
Berea College                        	Kentucky            	$1.438                          	1,575          	
Princeton Theological Seminary       	New Jersey          	$1.404                          	1,467          	
                                     	Florida             	                                	1,393          	
Saint Louis University               	Missouri            	                                	1,524          	
Northeastern University              	Massachusetts       	$1.334                          	1,469          	
Davidson College                     	North Carolina      	$1.316                          	1,341          	
Hamilton College                     	New York            	$1.276                          	1,412          	
                                     	Oklahoma            	$1.269                          	1,375          	
Rochester Institute of Technology    	New York            	$1.249                          	1,303          	
Berry College                        	Georgia             	$1.236                          	               	
Loma Linda University                	California          	$1.222                          	               	
Pepperdine University                	California          	                                	               	
Brandeis University                  	Massachusetts       	                                	1,286          	
Oberlin College                      	Ohio                	$1.202                          	1,349          	
Colgate University                   	New York            	$1.197                          	1,263          	
Vassar College                       	New York            	$1.196                          	1,379          	
Bryn Mawr College                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.145                          	               	
Claremont McKenna College            	California          	$1.143                          	1,313          	
Colby College                        	Maine               	$1.122                          	1,258          	
Villanova University                 	Pennsylvania        	$1.113                          	               	
Carleton College                     	Minnesota           	$1.094                          	               	
Bucknell University                  	Pennsylvania        	$1.070                          	               	
Denison University                   	Ohio                	$1.069                          	               	
Mount Holyoke College                	Massachusetts       	$1.003                          	               	
Lafayette College                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.001                          	               	
The data  on the right column are from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_333.90.asp. "Endowment funds of the 120 degree-granting postsecondary institutions with the largest endowments, by rank order: Fiscal year 2021"  The idea here is to show other data for those that doubt NACUBO. The risk of overwhelming readers and inviting even more meddling.  The data for public schools deviate more strongly from NACUBO. We could even limit both tables to a combined 120 institutions, as set by the U.S. Dept. of Ed.--Smokefoot (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: An experiment with US Dept of Educ Data

message: Institution                          	State               	Endowment(billions USD - FY2022)	US Dept of Educ	
Harvard University                   	Massachusetts       	$49.444                         	53,165         	
Yale University                      	Connecticut         	$41.383                         	42,282         	
Stanford University                  	California          	$36.300                         	37,788         	
Princeton University                 	New Jersey          	$35.794                         	37,026         	
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts       	$24.740                         	27,394         	
                                     	Pennsylvania        	$20.724                         	20,523         	
                                     	Indiana             	$16.729                         	18,385         	
Northwestern University              	Illinois            	$14.121                         	11,361         	
Columbia University                  	New York            	$13.280                         	14,349         	
Washington University in St. Louis   	Missouri            	$12.252                         	13,668         	
Duke University                      	North Carolina      	$12.116                         	12,692         	
University of Chicago                	Illinois            	$10.3                           	9,595          	
Vanderbilt University                	Tennessee           	$10.206                         	10,929         	
Emory University                     	Georgia             	$9.998                          	12,219         	
Cornell University                   	New York            	$9.838                          	9,474          	
Johns Hopkins University             	Maryland            	$8.244                          	9,315          	
Dartmouth College                    	New Hampshire       	$8.066                          	8,484          	
Rice University                      	Texas               	$7.814                          	8,080          	
                                     	California          	$7.319                          	8,126          	
Brown University                     	Rhode Island        	$6.141                          	6,520          	
New York University                  	New York            	$5.149                          	5,721          	
Carnegie Mellon University           	Pennsylvania        	$3.857                          	3,092          	
California Institute of Technology   	California          	$3.635                          	4,022          	
Williams College                     	Massachusetts       	$3.534                          	3,911          	
Boston College                       	Massachusetts       	$3.337                          	3,775          	
Amherst College                      	Massachusetts       	$3.322                          	3,775          	
Georgetown University                	District of Columbia	$3.210                          	2,592          	
                                     	Virginia            	$3.153                          	3,351          	
Boston University                    	Massachusetts       	$2.981                          	3,393          	
Wellesley College                    	Massachusetts       	$2.847                          	3,393          	
Pomona College                       	California          	$2.750                          	3,031          	
                                     	New York            	$2.739                          	3,195          	
Swarthmore College                   	Pennsylvania        	$2.725                          	2,899          	
Rockefeller University               	New York            	$2.608                          	               	
Grinnell College                     	Iowa                	$2.484                          	2,932          	
Bowdoin College                      	Maine               	$2.475                          	2,718          	
Smith College                        	Massachusetts       	$2.468                          	2,559          	
Texas Christian University           	Texas               	$2.401                          	               	
Tufts University                     	Massachusetts       	$2.351                          	2,647          	
George Washington University         	District of Columbia	$2.340                          	2,411          	
Case Western Reserve University      	Ohio                	$2.188                          	2,354          	
Tulane University                    	Louisiana           	$2.052                          	1,973          	
Washington and Lee University        	Virginia            	$1.998                          	2,092          	
Baylor University                    	Texas               	$1.971                          	1,829          	
Southern Methodist University        	Texas               	$1.958                          	               	
Wake Forest University               	North Carolina      	$1.820                          	1,863          	
Syracuse University                  	New York            	$1.794                          	1,814          	
University of Delaware               	Delaware            	$1.781                          	1,958          	
Trinity University                   	Texas               	$1.705                          	1,725          	
Lehigh University                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.680                          	1,785          	
Medical College of Wisconsin         	Wisconsin           	$1.512                          	1,626          	
Baylor College of Medicine           	Texas               	$1.494                          	1,668          	
Wesleyan University                  	Connecticut         	$1.485                          	1,670          	
Santa Clara University               	California          	$1.472                          	1,538          	
Middlebury College                   	Vermont             	$1.467                          	1,511          	
Berea College                        	Kentucky            	$1.438                          	1,575          	
Princeton Theological Seminary       	New Jersey          	$1.404                          	1,467          	
                                     	Florida             	                                	1,393          	
Saint Louis University               	Missouri            	                                	1,524          	
Northeastern University              	Massachusetts       	$1.334                          	1,469          	
Davidson College                     	North Carolina      	$1.316                          	1,341          	
Hamilton College                     	New York            	$1.276                          	1,412          	
                                     	Oklahoma            	$1.269                          	1,375          	
Rochester Institute of Technology    	New York            	$1.249                          	1,303          	
Berry College                        	Georgia             	$1.236                          	               	
Loma Linda University                	California          	$1.222                          	               	
Pepperdine University                	California          	                                	               	
Brandeis University                  	Massachusetts       	                                	1,286          	
Oberlin College                      	Ohio                	$1.202                          	1,349          	
Colgate University                   	New York            	$1.197                          	1,263          	
Vassar College                       	New York            	$1.196                          	1,379          	
Bryn Mawr College                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.145                          	               	
Claremont McKenna College            	California          	$1.143                          	1,313          	
Colby College                        	Maine               	$1.122                          	1,258          	
Villanova University                 	Pennsylvania        	$1.113                          	               	
Carleton College                     	Minnesota           	$1.094                          	               	
Bucknell University                  	Pennsylvania        	$1.070                          	               	
Denison University                   	Ohio                	$1.069                          	               	
Mount Holyoke College                	Massachusetts       	$1.003                          	               	
Lafayette College                    	Pennsylvania        	$1.001                          	               	
The data  on the right column are from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_333.90.asp. "Endowment funds of the 120 degree-granting postsecondary institutions with the largest endowments, by rank order: Fiscal year 2021"  The idea here is to show other data for those that doubt NACUBO. The risk of overwhelming readers and inviting even more meddling.  The data for public schools deviate more strongly from NACUBO. We could even limit both tables to a combined 120 institutions, as set by the U.S. Dept. of Ed.--Smokefoot (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Private schools

message: See the discussion at Talk:Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment size#Endowment per student.  Its very deceptive.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Endowment per student