College and University Endowments, 2002

Rank

Institution

Endowment1

1.

Harvard Univ. (Cambridge, Mass.)

$17,518,021,000

2.

Yale Univ. (New Haven, Conn.)

10,442,036,000

3.

Princeton Univ. (Princeton, N.J.)

8,320,000,000

4.

Univ. of Texas System Administration (Austin, Tex.)

8,259,705,297

5.

Stanford Univ. (Stanford, Calif.)

7,612,767,540

6.

Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Cambridge, Mass.)

5,359,400,000

7.

Columbia Univ. (New York, N.Y.)

4,238,168,000

8.

Emory Univ. (Atlanta, Ga.)

4,053,692,441

9.

Washington Univ. (St. Louis, Mo.)

3,633,057,000

10.

Univ. of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

3,435,163,000

11.

Univ. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.)

3,393,297,284

12.

Northwestern Univ. (Evanston, Ill.)

3,203,837,250

13.

Univ. of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)

3,111,626,000

14.

Cornell Univ. (Ithaca, N.Y.)

$3,034,769,000

15.

Rice Univ. (Houston, Tex.)

2,940,000,000

16.

Texas A&M Univ. (College Station, Tex.)

2,928,537,601

17.

Univ. of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Ind.)

2,606,000,000

18.

Duke Univ. (Durham, N.C.)

2,440,878,348

19.

Dartmouth Coll. (Hanover, N.H.)

2,423,762,690

20.

Univ. of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.)

2,130,977,000

21.

Vanderbilt Univ. (Nashville, Tenn.)

1,989,692,450

22.

Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.)

1,774,200,000

23.

Johns Hopkins Univ. (Baltimore, Md.)

1,695,150,000

24.

Univ. of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.)

1,654,291,673

25.

Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minn.)

1,571,801,000

26.

Univ. of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.)

$1,517,858,136

27.

Brown Univ. (Providence, R.I.)

1,434,666,000

28.

Univ. of Texas at Austin (Austin, Tex.)

1,350,815,842

29.

Case Western Reserve Univ. (Cleveland, Ohio)

1,347,100,000

30.

Rockefeller Univ. (New York, N.Y.)

1,338,754,978

31.

Univ. of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

1,224,018,000

32.

Williams Coll. (Williamstown, Mass.)

1,186,151,056

33.

New York Univ. (New York, N.Y.)

1,177,704,000

34.

Univ. of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.)

1,131,554,397

35.

Boston Coll. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)

1,125,964,000

36.

Univ. of Washington (Seattle, Wash.)

1,111,726,000

37.

Univ. of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

1,103,082,000

38.

Purdue Univ. (West Lafayette, Ind.)

1,098,939,000

39.

Georgia Univ. of Tech. (Atlanta, Ga.)

$1,091,470,138

40.

Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

1,085,663,552

41.

Calif. Inst. of Tech. (Pasadena, Calif.)

1,083,873,000

42.

Grinnell Coll. (Grinnell, Iowa)

1,075,153,000

43.

Wellesley Coll. (Wellesley, Mass.)

1,032,464,639

44.

Pomona Coll. (Claremont, Calif.)

1,021,846,732

45.

Univ. of Wisc.-Madison (Madison, Wis.)

1,000,856,684

46.

Univ. of Richmond (University of Richmond, Va.)

998,193,000

47.

Ohio State Univ. (Columbus, Ohio)

960,079,365

48.

Baylor Coll. of Medicine (Houston, Tex.)

959,284,162

49.

Indiana Univ. (Bloomington, Ind.)

955,991,407

50.

Penn. State Univ. (University Park, Pa.)

942,829,960

NOTES: List includes only institutions that participated in the 2002 Voluntary Support of Education Survey. State systems that submitted combined endowments above the current cut-off are not included.

1. Endowment is market value at fiscal year-end 2002.

Source: Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of RAND.