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<p>NYU is huge. As the largest private university in the USA, certainly it can offer more classes than a small LAC. As for resources and opportunities, that depends on how you define and measure these things.</p>
<p>NYU’s endowment is about $2.1 billion, which would rank it in the nation’s top 25. However, that works out to less than $40K per student, and it’s in a very high cost location. Grinnell, Pomona, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore all have endowments greater than $500K per student. </p>
<p>Other LAC endowments per student (derived from Wikipedia data):</p>
<p>Vassar … $347K
Macalester … $274K
Whitman … $205K
Colorado College … $199K
Oberlin … $193K
Wesleyan … $178K
Bard … $150M
Bates … $106K
Sarah Lawrence … $48K</p>
<p>Of course, economies of scale come into play. And NYU has all the resources of NYC at hand.</p>