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Line 42: − + − Although endowment size is a relative measure of a college's financial strength and stability, there are many other factors that influence the quality of a school. For example, many of these schools include hospital systems with a portion of the endowment supporting hospital operations. Also, public universities generally have lower endowments than private institutions, but public universities receive annual taxpayer appropriations that can make up for a lower annual endowment income. In general, over time, universities earn an average of 4% per year on their endowment investments. So, a $100 million endowment investment may subsidize annual operations by $4 million per year.
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|7||[[University of Pennsylvania]]||$14.6
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|8||[[Texas A&M University System]]||$13.5Columbia University||$7.8
|8||[[Texas A&M|Texas A&M University System]]||$13.Columbia University||$7.8
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|9||[[University of Michigan]]||$12.4
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Many industry experts argue that it is better to compare endowment per student rather than the over all endowment size.
Many industry experts argue that it is better to compare endowment per student rather than the over all endowment size. Although endowment size is a relative measure of a college's financial strength and stability, there are many other factors that influence the quality of a school. For example, many of these schools include hospital systems with a portion of the endowment supporting hospital operations. Also, public universities generally have lower endowments than private institutions, but public universities receive annual taxpayer appropriations that can make up for a lower annual endowment income. In general, over time, universities earn an average of 4% per year on their endowment investments. So, a $100 million endowment investment may subsidize annual operations by $4 million per year.
Endowment size generally confers a competitive advantage to colleges with larger endowments, as shown by this table with the top 100 colleges holding 78% of all college endowment assets:
Endowment size generally confers a competitive advantage to colleges with larger endowments, as shown by this table with the top 100 colleges holding 78% of all college endowment assets: