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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Endowment is, arguably, the single most important factor when ranking colleges & universities.[/quote]

Nonsense. Many of the great publics schools in this country don’t have huge endowments. People seem to forget that large state appropriations are equivalent to billions of dollars in private school endowment.  [/quote]

Currently, Michigan has a 17 billion dollar endowment. If you add state appropriations to that figure, it’s more on the order of 24 billion as compared to a private school. There are only 5 top 25 universities in this country with a larger overall endowment/state appropriation than UMich.  Michigan is only ranked 23rd at USNWR, so endowment is not the single most important factor.  UVA is also in a similar situation.  Another factor I will mention, before someone else does, is endowment/student. I find to be a somewhat a less important metric as it doesn’t include economies of scale, percentage of graduate students//undergraduate ones, locational costs, and other factors. [/quote]

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