<p>PhillyBound, the $6 billion figure includes the cost of the medical program and of the hospital. Harvard does not include those numbers in its operating costs figures. Typically, a medical program and hospital will be equal to half of a university’s entire operating budget. As such, I would estimate that if you compare apples to apples (and left our hospitals and medical schools), Harvard’s $3.8 billion operating budget is the largest in the Ivy League, followed by either Columbia, Cornell, Penn or Yale, all of which would be close to each other. I would expect Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton to have trhe lowest operating costs given their relatively small size.</p>