<p>@Mom2college
You don’t understand how small that endowment is for a school that’s the size of NYU. NYU has over 40,000 students, which makes it the largest private university in America. NYU doesn’t have the largest endowment in America. That title belongs to Harvard with a total of $27 billion.</p>
<p>The operational costs of the largest private university in the most expensive city in America is VERY costly, and NYU has been bankrupt twice in it’s history, so they’re very careful about not letting that happen for a third time. </p>
<p>If you’re comparing NYU’s FA with those of ivy leagues, they’re not even in the same league. Ivy leagues have endowments that are multiple times larger than NYU’s, and the size of student bodies are generally a third or even a fourth the size of NYU.</p>