<p>^nope. [Northwestern</a> University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University]Northwestern”>Northwestern University - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Besides, to put things into context, when a school has ‘much’ larger endowment, that would mean, as an example, the difference btwn Stanford and Penn, not NU and Penn. Stanford has endowment of over 17 bil, and this number absolutely dwarfs that of Penn’s or other schools that you mentioned. But, 7 bil versus 6.8 or 6 billion doesn’t imply much of significance.</p>