I’ve sorted schools by “Endowment per student” and divided them up by tiers of richness
Ranking of Endowment per student (2015)
unit: millions of dollars per student
(source: Wikipedia)
IN ITS OWN CLASS
2.81 Princeton Univ – surprise!!!
OBSCENELY STINKING SUPER MEGA RICH
2.07 Yale Univ
1.74 Harvard Univ
STINKING SUPER MEGA RICH
1.32 Stanford Univ
1.27 Pomona College
1.22 Amherst College
1.20 Swarthmore College
1.19 Massachusetts Institute of Tech
1.14 Williams College
1.03 Grinnell College
1.00 California Institute of Tech
SUPER MEGA RICH
0.84 Rice Univ
0.80 Wellesley College
0.77 Bowdoin College
0.74 Dartmouth College
0.70 Univ of Notre Dame
0.68 Berea College
0.68 Univ of Richmond
0.65 Washington and Lee Univ
0.60 Smith College
MEGA RICH
0.50 Northwestern Univ
0.50 Univ of Chicago
0.49 Duke Univ
0.48 Trinity Univ (Texas)
0.48 Univ of Pennsylvania
0.47 Washington Univ in St. Louis
0.45 Emory Univ
0.44 Middlebury College
MERELY RICH
0.34 Brown Univ
0.33 Vanderbilt Univ
0.32 Columbia Univ
0.28 Cornell Univ
0.26 Univ of Virginia
0.24 Univ of California, San Francisco
0.23 Univ of Michigan
0.20 Univ of Rochester
UPPER INCOME W KNOCK-OFF DESIGNER HANDBAG
0.17 Texas A&M Univ System (system-wide)
0.17 Lehigh Univ
0.17 Case Western Reserve Univ
0.16 Boston College
0.16 Johns Hopkins Univ
0.15 Texas Christian Univ
0.15 Wake Forest Univ
0.15 Tufts Univ
0.13 Southern Methodist Univ
0.13 Carnegie Mellon Univ
0.11 Univ of Southern California
0.11 Univ of Texas System (system-wide)
0.10 Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
0.10 Univ of Pittsburgh
0.09 Tulane Univ
0.09 Georgetown Univ
0.08 Saint Louis Univ
0.08 Georgia Institute of Tech
0.07 Baylor Univ
0.06 George Washington Univ
0.06 New York Univ
0.06 Purdue Univ (system-wide)
0.06 Ohio State Univ
0.05 Syracuse Univ
0.05 Boston Univ
0.05 Michigan State Univ
0.04 Univ of California, Los Angeles
0.04 Pennsylvania State Univ (system-wide)
0.04 Northeastern University
0.03 Texas Tech Univ (system-wide)
0.03 Univ of Alabama (system-wide)
0.03 Univ of Cincinnati
0.03 Univ of Illinois system (system-wide)
I acknowledge that the dividing line between my precise richness classifications is fuzzy.