New College Ranking

gurumaker
Thu, 02 May 2013 16:58:53 +0000

I actually created the list and your point about some of these schools attracting old money rich more able to donate is valid. Most of the top colleges claim to be need blind and do dole out a lot of financial aid. I may attempt to incorporate percent of students getting financial aid, in a future “refined” ranking, or percentage of alums actually donating, which speaks to ROI, but not necessarily financial success. For OperaDad, remember that a lot of those endowment assets are tied up in illiquid assets like real estate and may not be kicking off steady returns. Still I get your point about Princeton and its very full coffers. Re the comment about Caltech, remember some of the big research institutions get a boost from contracts and grants which were only pulled out of the number post 2009. My data is a 10 year median. Still the top 3 would clearly be in the top ten if the data was completely clean. Please feel free to comment on Forbes if you like…I appreciate your readership!