<p>Congratulations, UCLA!</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> Gifts Make Endowment Biggest Gainer as Harvard Lags Behind - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>It doesn’t actually come as much of a surprise, with all the headline donations the university have been receiving. </p>
<p>This should rid doubts of a few of you who erroneously claimed the UCLA endowment was suffering trouble in face of economic difficulty. So many UCLA haters on CC…</p>
<p>Harvard isn’t the one to compare to, since many top privates outperformed it in endowment growth.</p>
<p>And it’s not surprising that schools who have had “less” would make bigger gains than those who have “more.” It’s must harder to grow a $20 billion endowment by 20% than it is to grow a $2 billion endowment by 20%. Proportions do not scale perfectly according to size.</p>
<p>Not hating on UCLA, but just putting its success in context - it has not outperformed other top schools in the way that a comparison with Harvard would suggest (which of course suggests that UCLA is above-and-beyond-in-the-stars ahead of most). The same could be said of USC, which has trumpeted its fundraising campaign far more than it deserves.</p>