Endowment rankings 2023

[Anonymous]

Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Endowment per student is a more valuable metric. And what undergrads get from a big endowment is different at, say, Grinnell vs Harvard vs UT.

I keep hearing this on this board. Is there any study backing up the assertion?

Let me see. Will I have more disposable income from savings if I am a millionaire and single or if I share a million dollars with a million people?

[Anonymous]

The WSJ had an article about this today, and they found Baylor University's endowment had the second highest rate of return, after Brown.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-small-university-endowment-that-is-beating-the-ivy-leagues-8ce37cf1?st=7s9140dgzgwyrs4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Endowment per student is a more valuable metric. And what undergrads get from a big endowment is different at, say, Grinnell vs Harvard vs UT.

I keep hearing this on this board. Is there any study backing up the assertion?

If there were, they probably don’t take in many different examples where have a larger endowment is important. For example, new buildings and rehabs are an expensive undertaking. A larger endowment is going to go a lot farther in this case than a smaller one no matter how many students are on campus/enrolled.

Well, I would think the physical plant is probably a lot larger at Michigan with 50K students than at Amherst with 2K students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

I doubt it. There are news stories that include all funds under management, not just endowment. Universities keep additional funds for accounts payable, etc. that are not endowment. The endowment study from NACUBO includes only long-term endowments.

[Anonymous]

So just snark and no receipts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Here you go

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/02/18/college-endowments-hit-the-skids-in-fiscal-year-2022/?sh=6b176b821986

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

But Notre Dame lost over 4 billion dollars, a 7.44% loss. That was eclipsed only by MIT. So not selective memory (and I’m a different pp just tired of all of the ND boosters who cite to ridiculous things like endowment but then hide their head in the sand when anyone points out ND’s terrible diversity figures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Endowment per student is a more valuable metric. And what undergrads get from a big endowment is different at, say, Grinnell vs Harvard vs UT.

I keep hearing this on this board. Is there any study backing up the assertion?

If there were, they probably don’t take in many different examples where have a larger endowment is important. For example, new buildings and rehabs are an expensive undertaking. A larger endowment is going to go a lot farther in this case than a smaller one no matter how many students are on campus/enrolled.

More students equals more buildings and larger campus and therefore more to rehab and update. So your theory is flawed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

But Notre Dame lost over 4 billion dollars, a 7.44% loss. That was eclipsed only by MIT. So not selective memory (and I’m a different pp just tired of all of the ND boosters who cite to ridiculous things like endowment but then hide their head in the sand when anyone points out ND’s terrible diversity figures

In the article cited, which used NACUBO data, Notre Dame was only down .7%

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/financial-health/2024/02/15/college-endowment-returns-ticked-fiscal-year-2023

University of Notre Dame

$16,616,524
$16,729,299
-0.7%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

But Notre Dame lost over 4 billion dollars, a 7.44% loss. That was eclipsed only by MIT. So not selective memory (and I’m a different pp just tired of all of the ND boosters who cite to ridiculous things like endowment but then hide their head in the sand when anyone points out ND’s terrible diversity figures

In the article cited, which used NACUBO data, Notre Dame was only down .7%

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/financial-health/2024/02/15/college-endowment-returns-ticked-fiscal-year-2023

University of Notre Dame

$16,616,524
$16,729,299
-0.7%

Found the article from June 2021:

https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2022/01/university-endowment-returns-net-53-2-reaching-20-3-billion-in-june-2021

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

But Notre Dame lost over 4 billion dollars, a 7.44% loss. That was eclipsed only by MIT. So not selective memory (and I’m a different pp just tired of all of the ND boosters who cite to ridiculous things like endowment but then hide their head in the sand when anyone points out ND’s terrible diversity figures

In the article cited, which used NACUBO data, Notre Dame was only down .7%

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/financial-health/2024/02/15/college-endowment-returns-ticked-fiscal-year-2023

University of Notre Dame

$16,616,524
$16,729,299
-0.7%

Found the article from June 2021:

https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2022/01/university-endowment-returns-net-53-2-reaching-20-3-billion-in-june-2021

20.3 billion in June of 2021

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

ND is still 7th among the private schools.
No change in than rank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dane must have lost a substantial amount of their endowment. I seem to recall they were close to 20 billion a while ago.

Virtually every school lost money a year ago. You have selective memory.

But Notre Dame lost over 4 billion dollars, a 7.44% loss. That was eclipsed only by MIT. So not selective memory (and I’m a different pp just tired of all of the ND boosters who cite to ridiculous things like endowment but then hide their head in the sand when anyone points out ND’s terrible diversity figures

In the article cited, which used NACUBO data, Notre Dame was only down .7%

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/financial-health/2024/02/15/college-endowment-returns-ticked-fiscal-year-2023

University of Notre Dame

$16,616,524
$16,729,299
-0.7%

Found the article from June 2021:

https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2022/01/university-endowment-returns-net-53-2-reaching-20-3-billion-in-june-2021

20.3 billion in June of 2021

Yep and now ‘$16b. That’s a 4 billion dollar loss. Huge for only a 16b endowment