Top 10 Wealthiest Universities Post-Collapse

<22-5 WALL S TOP 10 WEALTHIEST UNIVERSITIES POST-COLLAPSE HARVARD UNIVERSITY VE RI ENDOWMENT VALUED AT $27.6 BILLION IN 2010. DOWN FROM $36.6 BILLION IN 2008, PRE-CRASH. RICHEST AND OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE NATION - FOUNDED IN 1636, PRIMARILY TO TRAIN CLERGY, TODAY, ONE OF THE ANARVABD MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD. YALE UNIVERSITY ENDOWED WITH $22.8 BILLION IN 2008 AND $16.7 BILLION IN ASSETS IN 2010, TWO YEARS ור ת Lla LATER. CHARTERED IN 1701 IN NEW HAVEN, CT; SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WAS FOUNDED IN 1810 AND VERITAS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY IN 1822. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY WITH AN ENDOWMENT OF $14.4 BILLION IN 2010, SHOWING A GROWTH OF OVER 14% FOR THE YEAR, BUT DOWN FROM $16.35 BILLION IN 2008. SHOWING A STRONG RECOVERY DESPITE THE LACK OF A BUSINESS SCHOOL. DE पाी UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM WITH $14 BILLION, BUT A GOOD PORTION OF THAT IS THE STATE'S PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND, ESTABLISHED IN 1876, TODAY WORTH $8.8 BILLION. TWO THIRDS OF THAT FUND IS DEDICATED TO UT. PRE-CRASH THE UT ENDOWMENT WAS $16.1 BILLION. STANFORD UNIVERSITY HAS A POST-CRASH OF $13.9 BILLION, DOWN FROM $17.1 BILLION IN 2008. EARNINGS INCLUDE STANICAD CNKOR LUNI LUCRATIVE LEASES ON PORTIONS OF THE 8,100 ACRES THAT SURROUND THE CAMPUS, DONATED BY LELAND STANFORD WITH THE STIPULATION THAT THE LAND NEVER BE SOLD. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HAD $10.1 BILLION IN THE TREASURY IN 2008 AND TODAY HOLDS AN ENDOWMENT OF $8,3 BILLION. ALUMNI INCLUDE FOUNDERS OF INTEL, ROCKWELL USETTS MASSACH Aor INTERNATIONAL, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, 3COM, FECHNOLOO MCDONNELL DOUGLAS, AND RAYTHEON. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HAS AN ENDOWMENT OF $6.6 BILLION AS OF THE OF MA NIVERSITY END OF 2010, DOWN FROMA PRE-CRASH CUSHION OF $7.5 BILLION, UNLIKE MANY PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES THE BULK OF THIS ENDOWMENT GOES TO THE FLAGSHIP ENT 1817 CAMPUS IN ANN ARBOR. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IS ENDOWED WITH $6.5 BILLION CURRENTLY, SUPPORTING UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC EXPANSION MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE SCHOOL OF CONTINUING STUDIES. WITH A PRE-CRASH FUND OF $7.1 BILLION, THEIR LOSSES OVER TWO YEARS WERE LESS THAN 10%. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY STERN QUE 6. SAW THEIR ENDOWMENT DROP TO $5.5 BILLION FROM $7.3 BILLION IN 2008 BUT RECENTLY HAS RECOVERED TO $6.3 BILLION, REBOUNDING FROM A 16.7% LOSS IN 2009 TO A 12.4% GROWWTH RATE IN 2010. ARGUABLY THE FINEST UNIVERSITY IN CHICAGO, A CITY 1851 THAT RIVALS BOSTON FOR GREAT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING. TEXAS A&M CLAIMS AN ENDOWMENT OF $5.7 BILLION, WHICH 10 IS A COMBINATION OF A PRIVATE FOUNDATION VALUED AT $1.3 BILLION AND ONE THIRD OF THE TEXAS PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FUND, ESTABLISHED IN 1876 BY THE TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION. THEIR PRE-CRASH HOLDINGS TOTALED OVER $6.6 BILLION. Created and designed by Master-Degree-Online.com UNIVE NSTITUT