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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds about right. They need the money, bad.[/quote]

Ah, the Middlebury troll is back.

[b]Middlebury has zero financial problems[/b], has never had any and likely never will. [b]They are in the top 50 or so schools in the country in terms of endowment[/b] (larger than U Miami for example) [b]with more resources per student than schools such as[/b] Cornell, Brown, [b]Northwestern[/b], Chicago.

Middlebury has had a small nagging deficit for awhile because Laurie Patton preferred to just ignore it. Baucomb quickly made the right decision on MIIS and I suspect that it will quickly disappear. Even if it didn't the actual budget effect is small kind of like their $1.6B endowment functioning more like a $1.4B endowment. Middlebury also draws conservatively from their endowment, taking a full point less  (4.5-5.0%) than peer schools like Colby for example.[/quote]

Interesting post, but are you sure that Middlebury College has a larger EPS (endowment per student) than Northwestern University ?

My figures are from the NACUBO report on endowments published in 2023; it shows Northwestern with the 31st highest EPS and Middlebury farther down the list at #60. Do you have more recent figures ? TIA

https://insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2023/09/08/endowments-full-time-equivalent-student

Many schools want to avoid the endowment tax so, if I recall correctly, it is good from this perspective to be below $500,000 per full-time student endowment.[/quote]
The endowment tax doesn’t apply to small colleges.[/quote]

Thank you. I am aware that the endowment tax applies only to colleges & universities with 3,000 students or more.

Middlebury College does not have a higher endowment per full-time equivalent student than Northwestern University for the most recently reported fiscal year (2024). NU's EPS is significantly higher than Middlebury's EPS (by almost $200,000 per student).

Middlebury College EPS = $494,120

Northwestern University EPS = $686,393.

Overall total endowment: Middlebury College = almost $1.6 billion; Northwestern University = over $14.2 billion.[/quote]

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