Endowment per Student at Selected Colleges (2021)

Endowment is a college's biggest source of financial aid. Endowment per Student is a good indicator of the amount of aid it is likely to grant.


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Endowment/
Student ($)		 Endowment
($000) 		  # of Students 
                                                   
Princeton             4,589,980            37,697,509                   8,213
Yale             3,517,420            42,282,900                 12,021
Stanford             2,493,897            37,800,000                 15,157
MIT             2,445,993            27,527,204                 11,254
Harvard             2,187,041            51,900,662                 23,731
Williams             2,085,448             4,170,895                   2,000
Amherst             1,916,321             3,775,153                   1,970
Pomona             1,737,383             3,035,208                   1,747
Swarthmore             1,716,584             2,899,311                   1,689
Grinnell             1,713,355             2,931,550                   1,711
Cal Tech             1,587,401             3,805,000                   2,397
Bowdoin             1,530,460             2,719,628                   1,777
Wellesley             1,419,643             3,236,785                   2,280
Notre Dame             1,411,082            18,074,543                 12,809
Dartmouth             1,283,927             8,484,189                   6,608
Rice             1,107,012             8,061,260                   7,282
Smith                984,263             2,559,083                   2,600
Olin Coll. of Engin.                948,043                369,737                     390
Washington & Lee                941,260             2,092,420                   2,223
U Penn                  891,166            20,523,546                 23,030
Washington U in St. L.                871,099            13,536,003                 15,539
Claremont McKenna                864,322             1,222,151                   1,414
U of Richmond                838,533             3,355,809                   4,002
Vanderbilt                807,307            10,928,512                 13,537
Duke                756,405            12,692,472                 16,780
Emory                735,402            11,031,029                 15,000
Northwestern                712,307            14,958,441                 21,000
Hamilton                699,645             1,399,289                   2,000
Bryn Mawr                685,893             1,179,050                   1,719
Davidson                679,872             1,341,387                   1,973
Brown                655,426             6,520,175                   9,948
Univ. of Chicago                628,658            11,600,000                 18,452
Colby                598,923             1,257,738                   2,100
Vassar                566,320             1,378,988                   2,435
Carleton                565,974             1,157,982                   2,046
Whitman                559,823                839,734                   1,500
Reed                552,278                773,189                   1,400
Denison                505,417             1,162,459                   2,300
Wesleyan                491,453             1,572,651                   3,200
Harvey Mudd                490,325               443,744                      905
Mt. Holyoke                485,477             1,068,050                   2,200
Middlebury                464,923             1,511,001                   3,250
DePauw                457,564                801,653                   1,752
Oberlin                455,714             1,296,962                   2,846
Haverford                450,415                646,346                   1,435
Colorado Coll                432,890                908,637                   2,099
Columbia                429,473            14,349,970                 33,413
Lafayette                423,129             1,063,747                   2,514
Macalester                411,257                894,073                   2,174
Colgate                391,288             1,263,077                   3,228
Cornell                390,732           10,000,000                 25,593
Johns Hopkins                388,137             9,315,279                 24,000
Trinity College                361,386                783,123                   2,167
Holy Cross                333,976             1,040,000                   3,114
Lawrence                330,866                487,035                   1,472
Furman                322,681                838,971                   2,600
Kenyon                315,446                545,722                   1,730
Occidental                298,347                575,810                   1,930
Bucknell                294,282             1,105,616                   3,757
Sewanee                293,633                519,143                   1,768
Union                275,929                593,248                   2,150
Carnegie Mellon                273,609             3,967,324                 14,500
Univ. of Rochester                266,067             3,192,798                 12,000
Boston College                257,025             3,827,100                 14,890
Dickinson                255,880                600,039                   2,345
Wofford                247,182                437,513                   1,770
Lehigh                245,713             1,784,613                   7,263
Connecticut College                237,590                434,553                   1,829
Brandeis                236,397             1,286,002                   5,440
Coll. of the Atlantic                236,000                 82,600                     350
St Olaf                234,258                714,017                   3,048
Bates                233,008                466,016                   2,000
Ohio Wesleyan                229,800                307,932                   1,340
Tufts                222,807             2,646,506                 11,878
Agnes Scott                221,697                247,192                   1,115
Coll. of Wooster                215,605                431,210                   2,000
Rhodes                214,822                431,793                   2,010
Wake Forest                211,959             1,862,910                   8,789
Babson                200,485                669,620                   3,340
Case Western Res.                195,061             2,354,190                 12,069
Skidmore                194,689                506,191                   2,600
Franklin & Marshall                192,487                466,974                   2,426
Willamette                188,228                351,610                   1,868
Allegheny Coll                187,341                289,067                   1,543
U of Puget Sound                182,397                474,232                   2,600
Santa Clara Univ.                179,925             1,537,642                   8,546
RISD                 171,079                440,699                   2,576
Barnard                167,817                460,489                   2,744
Clark                162,135                506,185                   3,122
U of Southern CA                161,787             8,008,443                 49,500
Wheaton                156,987                266,878                   1,700
Gettysburg                155,890                405,315                   2,600
Muhlenberg                153,529                341,602                   2,225
Pitzer                 153,521                179,313                   1,168
St. Lawrence                151,871                390,612                   2,572
Rollins                150,646                467,605                   3,104
U of Pittsburg                146,961             4,172,380                  28,391
Hobart                136,814                304,959                   2,229
Georgetown                136,388             2,592,048                 19,005
RPI                135,410             1,069,740                   7,900
William & Mary                134,326             1,278,380                   9,517
Tulane                132,753             1,921,195                 14,472
The Citadel                 128,372                423,629                   3,300
Stonehill                124,196                307,883                   2,479
Bard                120,760                267,000                   2,211
St. Anselm                107,287                216,183                   2,015
Villanova                106,178             1,155,744                 10,885
NYU                104,039             5,574,000                 53,576
BU                100,991             3,401,162                 33,678
WPI                100,211                634,434                   6,331

110 Colleges
Sources: 2021 NACUBO Endowment Study; Common Data Set; Wikepedia