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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will JMU catch W&M in the rankings now that VT passed W&M?[/quote]

As to post itself, the poster assumes this is permanent and then uses ranking as a plural. Tech is one spot higher in the USNWR ranking than William and Mary and methodologies will change again. Forbes has W&M significantly higher in its 2025 ranking. I can locate others where W&M is higher so the post is not correct but give Tech credit as a great school.

As to the question itself, maybe one day but not in your or my lifetime. W&M just received $150MM in donations to fund one degree program and the amount is greater than JMU's entire endowment, not to mention JMU is many times larger than W&M.

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Yikes. Why is JMU's endowment so low? I have a person connection to JMU and I find this troubling........[/quote]

Perhaps a different thread topic but endowments are driven by a small number of very large gifts. The PP  mentioned the $150m Batten gifts to WM. That’s the Weather Channel founder family and the family net worth is probably $3 billion.

JMU as a historic women’s teachers college has not had graduates who founded companies or went to Wall Street or hedge funds.  The two largest gifts in JMU history are a $5 million and a $6 million donation. 
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https://www.jmu.edu/news/2019/04/01-may-commencement-speaker.shtml
https://www.jmu.edu/news/2019/11/11-christina-tosi.shtml[/quote]

Both clearly high performing grads that JMU should be proud of. But Morgan was SAP CEO for less than six months before getting fired with no severance.  And Milk Bar has stagnated - down to 11 locations (from 17 when the JMU article was written).  Neither article mentions a gift to JMU and they aren’t the $5m or the $6m gift PP mentioned.

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