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Old 05-06-2008, 10:54 AM   #28
munchkin3590
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large is an understatement, i read somewhere that oxbridge together has 70% of the ENTIRE UK university endowments, ivy in comparison has 13%.
If you mean, 13% of US endowment, then.... well, wherever you read that, the writer did some bad math. It's sort of a like a "well, duh" statement, because the UK has 126 unis, and in the states there are more than 3000. A little comparison comparison... 2/126 have 70%, 8/3000+ have 13%... It makes sense that Oxbridge's percentage of the UK endowments would be larger. You really can't compare the two figures at all.
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