Yes, of course, the US News entry on Brown’s endowment IS obviously wrong, by an order of magnitude… According to NACUBO, Brown’s endowment at the end of 2014 stood at $2,999,749,000, i.e., just shy of $3 billion—not $299,749,000 or just shy of $300 million as US News misreports it. My point is that this error doesn’t affect Brown’s US News ranking in any way, because the size of the endowment is not a factor in the US News ranking formula. “Financial resources” in the US News ranking means spending per student, not endowment per student.