{"id":519,"date":"2014-04-11T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-04-11T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:36:05","slug":"the-largest-30-university-endowment-investment-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"The Largest 30 University Endowment (Investment) Funds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA is home to the most advanced higher education system in the world, which is directly connected to the reason why the USA is home to the largest economy in the world, which boasts some of the most advanced companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p>We all depend on companies like IBM, Intel, Ford, BTPrivateWires, General Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook, Walmart, Pfizer, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Exxon Mobile etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading this website [<a title=\"Largest US University Investment Funsa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nacubo.org\/Documents\/Endowment%20Files\/2013NCSEEndowmentMarketValuesRevisedJan232014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nacubo.org\/Documents\/Endowment%20Files\/2013NCSEEndowmentMarketValuesRevisedJan232014.pdf<\/a>] that shows the largest 849 US and Canadian University Investment Funds.<\/p>\n<p>This is a snapshot of the top 30.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$32,334,293,000<br \/>\nYale University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$20,780,000,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Texas System\u00a0\u00a0$20,448,313,000<br \/>\nStanford University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$18,688,868,000<br \/>\nPrinceton University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$18,200,433,000<br \/>\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u00a0$11,005,932,000<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$8,732,010,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$8,382,311,000<br \/>\nColumbia University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$8,197,880,000<br \/>\nNorthwestern University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$7,883,323,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\u00a0\u00a0$7,741,396,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Notre Dame\u00a0\u00a0$6,856,301,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Chicago\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$6,668,974,000<br \/>\nUniversity of California\u00a0\u00a0$6,377,379,000<br \/>\nDuke University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$6,040,973,000<br \/>\nEmory University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$5,816,046,000<br \/>\nWashington University in St. Louis\u00a0$5,651,860,000<br \/>\nCornell University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$5,272,228,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Virginia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$5,166,660,000<br \/>\nRice University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$4,836,728,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Southern California\u00a0$3,868,355,000<br \/>\nDartmouth College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$3,733,596,000<br \/>\nVanderbilt University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$3,673,434,000<br \/>\nOhio State University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$3,149,169,000<br \/>\nJohns Hopkins University\u00a0\u00a0$2,987,298,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Pittsburgh\u00a0\u00a0$2,975,896,000<br \/>\nPennsylvania State University\u00a0\u00a0$2,956,803,000<br \/>\nNew York University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$2,949,000,000<br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota &amp; Foundations\u00a0$2,757,476,000<br \/>\nBrown University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$2,669,948,000<\/p>\n<p>Total: \u00a0 \u00a0$246,802 Million =\u00a0<strong>$246 Billion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US top 30 Universities have total investment funds of <strong>$246 Billion<\/strong>, that is just shy of a quarter of a Trillion US Dollars. <strong>(a bit of trivia, that is about 1.5% of the total US National Debt)<\/strong> Education is the mechanism of wealth creation and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA is home to the most advanced higher education system in the world, which is directly connected to the reason why the USA is home to the largest economy in the world, which boasts some of the most advanced companies in the world. 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