top 50 endowments

[Brad DeLong]

>[top 50 of 568 from the Chronicle of Higher Ed]
>
>University & college endowments, market value (in thousands)
>($1,000s)
>
>   rank
>  (2000)                                    1999        2000       change
>
>      1 Harvard U                        14,255,996  18,844,338     32.2%
>      2 Yale U                            7,197,900  10,084,900     40.1%
>      3 U of Texas System                 8,128,298  10,013,175     23.2%
>      4 Stanford U                        6,005,211   8,649,475     44.0%
>      5 Princeton U                       6,469,200   8,398,100     29.8%
>      6 Massachusetts Inst of Technolog   4,287,701   6,475,506     51.0%
>      7 U of California                   4,315,219   5,639,777     30.7%

Remember: we are eight universities (the same applies to U. Texas, 
Texas A&M, and so on). I've always thought that a better statistic 
would be endowment per faculty member or endowment per student, but 
I've never seen them created....

Brad DeLong