Endowments of Top 25 Research Universities

I already posted the figures for top 25 liberal arts colleges, so I might as well post these as well.

USNWR	School	Endowment	Enroll	End/Stu	5%/stu	Rank
1	Harvard	$31,728,080	19,627	$1,616,553	$80,828	3
1	Princeton	$17,109,508	7,802	$2,192,964	$109,648	1
3	Yale	$19,374,000	11,701	$1,655,756	$82,788	2
4	Columbia	$7,789,578	22,283	$349,575	$17,479	15
5	Chicago	$6,575,126	12781	$514,445	$25,722	10
5	CIT	$1,772,369	2,175	$814,882	$40,744	6
5	MIT	$9,712,628	10,566	$919,234	$45,962	4
5	Penn	$6,582,029	19,842	$331,722	$16,586	16
5	Stanford	$16,502,606	19,535	$844,771	$42,239	5
10	Duke	$5,747,377	14,983	$383,593	$19,180	12
11	Dartmouth	$3,413,406	6,141	$555,839	$27,792	8
12	Northwestern	$7,182,745	19,389	$370,455	$18,523	14
13	Johns Hopkins	$2,598,467	21,092	$123,197	$6,160	21
14	Wash U	$5,280,143	13,820	$382,065	$19,103	13
15	Brown	$2,496,926	8,695	$287,168	$14,358	17
15	Cornell	$5,059,406	20,939	$241,626	$12,081	19
17	Rice	$4,451,452	5,879	$757,178	$37,859	7
17	Vanderbilt	$3,414,514	12,714	$268,563	$13,428	18
19	Notre Dame	$6,259,598	11,992	$521,981	$26,099	9
20	Emory	$5,400,367	13,381	$403,585	$20,179	11
22	Georgetown	$1,160,291	16,871	$68,774	$3,439	24
23	Carnegie Mellon	$1,017,338	11,618	$87,566	$4,378	23
23	USC	$3,517,173	36,986	$95,095	$4,755	22
25	Wake Forest	$1,058,250	7,162	$147,759	$7,388	20

The six columns above are the school's US News & World Report ranking, the school name, the endowment size (in thousands), the school's enrollment (as reported by USNWR), the endowment per student, a ratio of 5% of the endowment per student (which is roughly how much a school has to spend per student solely from tapping into the endowment), and the rank (within this sample) of the endowment per student.

I dropped public schools because I wasn't sure which endowments listed were for one particular campus versus which ones were for a system of schools.  As expected, there's a strong correlation between endowment size and ranking (-.68 between endowment and ranking and -.70 between per pupil endowment and ranking).

Notable overachievers include Penn and Columbia, which both have longstanding reputations of excellence given their placement in both the Ivy League and large, historically prominent American cities, and Johns Hopkins, which has some very prominent programs in medicine and hard sciences.

Notable underachievers include Rice, which is located in Houston, which has only recently become one of the largest cities in the nation, and Notre Dame, which has strong ties with the Catholic church.