U.S. News & World Report Rankings

[Stallion]

the 2006 rankings are in-here are some interesting facts with rakings and endowment


17. Rice-$3,302,455,000(geez you's think they could afford a stinking BB Gym)
43. Tulane-$722,044,000
52. Texas-Austin-$1,975,373,912(boy that's a big drop right)
60(tied with 5). Texas A&M-$288,509,078(I knew their endowment was smaller but geez 12 times less than Rice? must be a mistake
71. SMU-$908,903,000
78. Baylor-$672,341,000
93. Tulsa-$224,810,855
97. TCU-$899,452,000

[BUTitan]

How does Rice get that much more than UT?

[MrMustang1965]

the 2006 rankings are in-here are some interesting facts with rakings and endowment


17. Rice-$3,302,455,000(geez you's think they could afford a stinking BB Gym)
43. Tulane-$722,044,000
52. Texas-Austin-$1,975,373,912(boy that's a big drop right)
60(tied with 5). Texas A&M-$288,509,078(I knew their endowment was smaller but geez 12 times less than Rice? must be a mistake
71. SMU-$908,903,000
78. Baylor-$672,341,000
93. Tulsa-$224,810,855
97. TCU-$899,452,000

It's an OMEN! We'll beat Baylor, Tulsa and TCU!

Uh, oh...looks like we won't do well against Rice & Tulane.

[Stallion]

Rice's founder gave one of largest donations in the history of education if you account for inflation.

[EastStang]

Up until like 1970 or so, wasn't every Rice student on scholarship? I knew they had probably one of the biggest endowments of anyone outside of the Ivys which can trace their endowments back to revolutionary days adjusted for inflation. William & Mary which is almost as old as Harvard has a very small endowment comparatively. It seems that after the civil war one of the reconstruction folks ran off with it putting the school into bankruptcy.

[BeerBus Tailgatin Aggie]

our endowment is wrong.


Here is a more accurate link. http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/BG/endwment.html

Rank Institution Endowment Funds($ billions)
1 Harvard University 18.0
2 Yale University 10.7
3 University of Texas System 9.4
4 Princeton University 8.4
5 Stanford University 8.2
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6.1
7 University of California 4.7
8 Emory University 4.3
9 Columbia University 4.3
10 The Texas A&M University System and Foundations 4.0
11 Washington University 4.0
12 University of Michigan 3.6
13 University of Chicago 3.5
14 University of Pennsylvania 3.4
15 Northwestern University 3.3
16 Rice University 3.2
17 Cornell University 3.2
18 Duke University 3.1
19 University of Notre Dame 2.8
20 Dartmouth College 2.4
21 Vanderbilt University 2.2
22 University of Southern California 2.1
23 John Hopkins University 1.8
24 University of Virginia 1.7
25 Brown University 1.4

[giacfsp]

I would contend that that is NOT a more accurate link, because that lumps together multiple campuses (i.e. the Aggie system, the UT system, etc.) against all of the single-campus schools.

What I want to know is: if Tulane has $722 mil, and A&M has $288 mil, why are they listed ahead of SMU and its $908 mil? Curious math, if you ask me.

[BeerBus Tailgatin Aggie]

I know its a more accurate link because the College Station campus just got done with a billion dollar campaign that started in 1999. In 6 years, the one vision campaign raised 1.15 billion dollars. That doesn't include other endowments that are ongoing.

[tristatecoog]

The A&M system just got through raising that much money, not the CS branch.

[BeerBus Tailgatin Aggie]

umm... No, the one vision campaign was strictly for the College Station campus. It goes towards new faculty, buildings, scholarships, and research.

[Lefty]

yawn....

[gostangs]

the money raised went several places as you noted - the endowment listings are only list the total endowment dollars - not all monies raised. In other words - money raised for buildings would not add to the endowment.

That said - i also think just the CS portion of the a$M system would be a larger endowment then that.

By the way - I think the rankings offerred at the beggiing of the thread are the US NEWS academic rankings, not the endowment rankings - someone seemed confused about that. The endowment is offered just as extra information it seems.

[PlanoStang]

I would contend that that is NOT a more accurate link, because that lumps together multiple campuses (i.e. the Aggie system, the UT system, etc.) against all of the single-campus schools.

What I want to know is: if Tulane has $722 mil, and A&M has $288 mil, why are they listed ahead of SMU and its $908 mil? Curious math, if you ask me.

Yep, there's an A$M at Commerce, and Richardson or Plano near me.
Also, UTD, UTA, UTTyler, and oh, almsot forgot UTEP. Oops, probably
missing UT San Antonio, etc.

[Bocephus]

I am pretty sure BeerBus is correct. The $1 billion goes to College Station. Last time I checked our endowment was in the billions.