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Top 50 Educational Endowments

As of June 30, 2012

     Market 
     Value 
Rank Institution  (millions) 
1 Harvard University  30,435
2 Yale University  19,345
3 The University of Texas System  18,623
4 Stanford University  17,036
5 Princeton University  16,954
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  10,150
7 University of Michigan  7,691
8 Columbia University  7,654
9 The Texas A&M University System
7,639
10 Northwestern University
7,119
11 University of Pennsylvania  6,755
12 University of Chicago 6,571
13 University of Notre Dame
6,330
14 University of California
5,963
15 Duke University  5,555
16 Emory University  5,461
17 Washington University in St. Louis  5,226
18 Cornell University  4,947
19 University of Virginia  4,789
20 Rice University  4,419
21 University of Southern California  3,489
22 Dartmouth College
3,486
23 Vanderbilt University
3,399
24 New York University  2,755
25 University of Pittsburgh
2,618
26 Johns Hopkins University
2,593
27 University of Minnesota 2,494
28 Brown University  2,460
29 The Ohio State University
2,366
30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2,179
31 University  of Washington
2,111
32 Purdue University  1,917
33 University of Richmond  1,868
34 University of Wisconsin Foundation 1,812
35 Williams College  1,799
36 The Pennsylvania State University
1,780
37 California Institute of Technology
1,747
38 Pomona College 1,680
39 University of Illinois & Foundation
1,667
40 The Rockefeller University  1,662
41 Boston College  1,646
42 Amherst College  1,641
43 Georgia Institute of Technology
1,608
44 Case Western Reserve University
1,600
45 University of Rochester
1,582
46 Indiana University & Foundation
1,577
47 Swarthmore College
1,499
48 University of Toronto
1,486
49 Wellesley College
1,445
50 Smith College
1,410

Source: 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments